The Thomistic Institute

Feb 7, 2020 • 55 min

This lecture was given at the University of Oxford on 21 November 2019. The Hand Out for this lecture can be accessed here: tinyurl.com/r5t948s Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., grew up as the youngest of ten children on a farm in Kansas, and studied history, philosophy, and classics at Benedictine College. He then went to St Andrews, Scotland for a Master of Letters in medieval history. He entered the Order of Preachers as a son of the Province of St. Joseph, and was ordained a priest in 2002. After finishing his S.T.L. and serving as an associate pastor for a brief time, he was sent to Kenya as a missionary for two years. He taught at the Tangaza College of The Catholic University of Eastern Africa and other institutions in Nairobi. He returned to the U.S. and completed the Ph.D. in theology at the University of Notre Dame, with the primary area of history of Christianity (specializing in patristic theology with additional studies in medieval theology) and the secondary area of systematic theology. His research appears in such journals as Vigiliae Christianae, Augustinianum, International Journal of Systematic Theology, New Blackfriars, Nova et Vetera, Pro Ecclesia, The Thomist, Communio, and Angelicum and in books published by Catholic University America Press and Ignatius Press. He is the author of Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus (Oxford Early Christian Studies), Oxford University Press, 2013, and the editor of Divinization: Becoming Icons of Christ through the Liturgy, Hillenbrand Books, 2015. For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Feb 3, 2020 • 1h 11m

This lecture was given 21 October 2019 to the DC Young Adults Chapter. Jennifer A. Frey received her BA from Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana in 2000, and her PhD at the University of Pittsburgh in 2012. In 2013 she was Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago prior to taking up her current appointment as Assistant Professor in the Philosophy department at the University of South Carolina. Jennifer's research interests lie at the intersection of virtue ethics and action theory. She has publications in The Journal of the History of Philosophy, The Journal of Analytic Philosophy, and in several edited volumes. She is the recipient of several grants, including coa 2.1 million dollar project awarded by the John Templeton Foundation, titled "Virtue, Happiness, and Meaning in Life." She is currently at work on three separate book projects. For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Jan 31, 2020 • 1h 11m

This lecture was given on 13 December 2019 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Paige Hochschild is a professor of historical and systematic theology at Mount St. Mary's University (MD), specializing in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and the early Church. She also teaches philosophy courses at the Seminary at Mount St. Mary's. She has written a book on the place of memory in Augustine's theological anthropology, and publishes on the Church, education, tradition, 20th c. theological debates within the Church (Scripture, history; marriage). For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Jan 29, 2020 • 35 min

This lecture was given at Vanderbilt Medical School on December 13, 2019. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Dr. Christopher Kaczor (rhymes with razor) is Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University and a member of the James Madison Society of Princeton University. In 2015, he was appointed to the Pontifical Academy for Life of Vatican City, and he serves as a Consultor to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He graduated from the Honors Program of Boston College and earned a Ph.D. four years later from the University of Notre Dame.

Jan 24, 2020 • 49 min

This lecture was given at Trinity College Dublin on 21 November 2019. The hand out for this lecture is available here: tinyurl.com/rxd7o43 Fr. Conor McDonough, O.P. teaches theology at the Dominican House of Studies, Dublin. He studied science and theology at Cambridge University, and recently completed postgraduate studies in theology at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Jan 22, 2020 • 1h 18m

This lecture was given at the University of Oregon on 21 November 2019. J. Budziszewski (Ph.D. Yale, 1981) is a professor of government and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. His main area of research is the natural moral law, and he is most well known for his work on moral self deception, “the revenge of conscience” what happens when we tell ourselves that we don't know what we really do know. However, he has written about all sorts of things such as moral character, family and sexuality, religion and public life, toleration and liberty, and the unraveling of our common culture. The most recent of his thirteen books are Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law and Commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Virtue Ethics, both from Cambridge University Press, as well as "On the Meaning of Sex," from Intercollegiate Studies Institute. His book for students, "How to Stay Christian in College" has sold several hundred thousand copies. He also maintains a personal website and blog, "The Underground Thomist." Married for more than 45 years, Dr. Budziszewski has several children and a clutch of grandchildren. Presently he is completing a book on the meaning of happiness. For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Jan 21, 2020 • 58 min

This lecture was given at St. Charles Borromeo Church in Arlington, VA for our DC Young Adults chapter. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. serves presently as Assistant Director of Campus Outreach for the Thomistic Institute. He served previously as an associate pastor at St. Louis Bertrand Church in Louisville, KY where he also taught as an adjunct professor at Bellarmine University. Born and raised near Philadelphia, PA, he attended the Franciscan University of Steubenville, studying mathematics and humanities. Upon graduating, he entered the Order of Preachers in 2010. He was ordained a priest in 2016 and holds an STL from the Dominican House of Studies.

Jan 17, 2020 • 1h 15m

This lecture was given at UT Austin on December 5, 2019. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Catherine Ruth Pakaluk (Ph.D, 2010) joined the faculty at the Busch School in the summer of 2016, and is the founder of the Social Research academic area, where she is an Assistant Professor of Social Research and Economic Thought. Formerly, she was Assistant Professor and Chair of the Economics Department at Ave Maria University. Her primary areas of research include economics of education and religion, family studies and demography, Catholic social thought and political economy.

Jan 14, 2020 • 1h 14m

This lecture was given on December 3, 2019 at The United States Military Academy. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Angela Knobel is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America. Her main areas of research are Thomas Aquinas’s virtue theory, ethics, and bioethics. Her papers have appeared or are forthcoming in such journals as The Thomist, American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, Nova et Vetera, International Philosophical Quarterly and The Journal of Moral Theology.

Jan 13, 2020 • 1h 1m

This event was given at Rutgers University on December 3, 2019. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Joshua Hochschild is the Monsignor Robert R. Kline Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University, where he also served six years as the inaugural Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. His primary research is in medieval logic, metaphysics, and ethics, with broad interest in liberal education and the continuing relevance of the Catholic intellectual tradition. He is the author of The Semantics of Analogy: Rereading Cajetan’s De Nominum Analogia (2010), translator of Claude Panaccio’s Mental Language: From Plato to William of Ockham (2017), and co-author of A Mind at Peace: Reclaiming an Ordered Soul in the Age of Distraction (2017). His writing has appeared in First Things, Commonweal, Modern Age and the Wall Street Journal. For 2020-21 he’s been elected to serve as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

Jan 10, 2020 • 58 min

This lecture was given at Tulane University on December 2, 2019. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Fr. Thomas Petri, OP is the Vice President and Dean of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies, where he also serves as an assistant professor of moral theology and pastoral studies. Ordained a priest in 2009, he holds a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from The Catholic University of America.

Jan 8, 2020 • 49 min

This lecture was given at Harvard University on November 20, 2019. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and Assistant Professor in Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001, after having practiced constitutional law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also taught at The Catholic University of America Law School and at Providence College. He is the author of The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Jan 7, 2020 • 43 min

This lecture was given at the University of South Carolina on November 14, 2019. For more events and info visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Farr Curlin is Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities and CoDirector of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke University. Dr. Curlin’s ethics scholarship takes up moral questions that are raised by religionassociated differences in physicians’ practices. He is an active palliative medicine physician and holds appointments in both the School of Medicine and the Divinity School, where he is working with colleagues to develop a new interdisciplinary community of scholarship and training focused on the intersection of theology, medicine, and culture.

Jan 6, 2020 • 43 min

This lecture was given at the US Naval Academy on November 19, 2019. For more events and info visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Fr. Thomas Petri, OP is the Vice President and Dean of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies, where he also serves as an assistant professor of moral theology and pastoral studies. Ordained a priest in 2009, he holds a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from The Catholic University of America.

Jan 3, 2020 • 51 min

This lecture was given at Georgetown University on November 19, 2019. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Captain Joe McInerney is the Chairman of the Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law and Permanent Military Professor of Applied Ethics at the United States Naval Academy. Captain McInerney lectures in the Naval Academy’s core ethics course, which is offered to all Third Class Midshipman (sophomores) at the Naval Academy and teaches elective courses in the fields of Christian morality and leadership. In 2016, Captain McInerney published his first book, The Greatness of Humility: St. Augustine on Moral Excellence. Captain McInerney served as a Fellow at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the United States Naval Academy for the 2008-2009 academic year. He graduated from The Catholic University of America with a doctorate in systematic theology in October 2012 after completing a dissertation on the moral thought of St. Augustine. Captain McInerney also holds a bachelor’s degree in history from the United States Naval Academy and a Masters of Theological Studies from the Pontifical Lateran University.

Dec 31, 2019 • 45 min

This talk was given at the United States Naval Academy on 5 November 2019. Zena Hitz is a Tutor at St. John's College where she teaches across the liberal arts. She is interested in defending intellectual activity for its own sake, as against its use for economic or political goals. Her forthcoming book, Intellectual Life, is rooted in essays that have appeared in First Things, Modern Age, and The Washington Post. Her scholarly work has focused on the political thought of Plato and Aristotle, especially the question of how law cultivates or fails to cultivate human excellence. She received an MPhil in Classics from Cambridge and studied Social Thought and Philosophy at the University of Chicago before finishing her PhD in Philosophy at Princeton. For more information on this and other events go to thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Dec 31, 2019 • 45 min

This lecture was given at Trinity University on November 18, 2019. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Daniel De Haan is a Research Fellow in Natural Theology at the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion and the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. Before coming to Oxford he was a postdoctoral fellow working on the neuroscience strand of the Templeton World Charity Foundation’s Theology, Philosophy of Religion, and the Sciences project at the University of Cambridge. He has a doctorate in philosophy from the Catholic University of Leuven and University of St Thomas in Texas. His research focuses on philosophical anthropology and the sciences, natural theology, and the thought of Thomas Aquinas.

Dec 29, 2019 • 47 min

This lecture was given at New York University on November 16, 2019. The accompanying powerpoint presentation is available at tinyurl.com/qmvtem6. For more events and info visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Prof. Philip Bess (University of Notre Dame) lectures widely, and is the author of numerous articles and three books: City Baseball Magic: Plain Talk and Uncommon Sense About Cities and Baseball Parks (Knothole, 1991); Inland Architecture: Subterranean Essays on Moral Order and Formal Order in Chicago (Interalia / Design, 2000); and Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Sacred (ISI, 2006). He holds an undergraduate degree in philosophy from Whittier College, a graduate degree in church history from Harvard, and a graduate degree in architecture from the University of Virginia. In 2013-14 he was a William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life in Princeton University's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions; in May 2015 he received the degree Doctor of Humane Letters honoris causa from The Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, California; and he is a Fall 2019 Fellow of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study.

Dec 26, 2019 • 50 min

This lecture was given at New York University on November 16, 2019. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. The accompanying powerpoint is available at tinyurl.com/syoqp3b. Steven Schloeder, Ph.D., AIA, NCARB, is a registered Architect in the State of Arizona, the State of California, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and a widely published author and popular lecturer. He holds a professional degree in architecture (B. Arch – Arizona State University 1984), as well as advanced research degrees in architecture (M. Arch – University of Bath 1989) and theology (Ph.D. – Graduate Theological Union 2003).

Dec 23, 2019 • 55 min

This lecture was given at New York University on 16 November 2019 at a symposium gathering scholars and architects in light of the recent catastrophe at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris to consider the purpose of sacred architecture, the nature of beauty and the issues with early proposals for rebuilding Notre Dame that are rooted in post-modern ideas about art and architecture. Featuring Prof. Philip Bess (University of Notre Dame), Dr. Margaret Hughes (Thomas Aquinas College), and Dr. Steven Schloeder (Liturgical Environs).