The Thomistic Institute

Mar 22, 2019 • 54 min

This talk was offered at University of Texas at Austin on March 9th, as the second lecture in a 3 part conference on "The Christian Imagination: Reflections of Flannery O'Connor, J.R.R. Tolkien, & C.S. Lewis." The lectures offered included: "A Pilgrim’s Progress: The Christian Imagination of Flannery O’Connor" - Raymond Hain (Providence College) "Tolkien’s Wizardry: How Metaphysics Molded Middle-Earth, and Middle-Earth Shaped the Post-Modern World" - Robert Koons (University of Texas at Austin) "The Practice and Theory of Imagination in C.S. Lewis" - Robert Royal (Faith & Reason Institute) To learn more about upcoming events hosted by the TI, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Mar 21, 2019 • 1h 8m

This talk was offered at University of Texas at Austin on March 9th, as the first lecture in a 3 part conference on "The Christian Imagination: Reflections of Flannery O'Connor, J.R.R. Tolkien, & C.S. Lewis." The lectures offered included: "A Pilgrim’s Progress: The Christian Imagination of Flannery O’Connor" - Raymond Hain (Providence College) "Tolkien’s Wizardry: How Metaphysics Molded Middle-Earth, and Middle-Earth Shaped the Post-Modern World" - Robert Koons (University of Texas at Austin) "The Practice and Theory of Imagination in C.S. Lewis" - Robert Royal (Faith & Reason Institute) To learn more about upcoming events hosted by the TI, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Mar 20, 2019 • 38 min

This lecture was offered for our chapter at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario on March 11th, 2019. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: www. thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Michael Gorman is a Professor of Philosophy at CUA. He received a doctorate in philosophy from SUNY Buffalo and a doctorate in theology from Boston College. He is also a scholar in the Templeton Virtue Project and a fellow of CUA's Institute for Human Ecology. He recently published a book, Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Hypostatic Union, published by Cambridge University Press.

Mar 18, 2019 • 57 min

This lecture was delivered at the University of Arizona on February 19, 2019. For more information about upcoming Thomistic Institute events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Mar 15, 2019 • 39 min

This talk was offered at NYU on March 9th, 2019 as part of the day long conference "Does Politics Need God?" The conference featuring Prof. Paul Rahe (Hillsdale College), Prof. Steve Long (Ave Maria University), Sohrab Ahmari (New York Post), and a panel including Prof. Robert George (Princeton University), Prof. Vincent Phillip Muñoz (University of Notre Dame) and Fr. Dominic Legge, OP (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception and the Thomistic Institute). It was co-sponsored by the University of Notre Dame Tocqueville Program For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Mar 14, 2019 • 54 min

This lecture was given for our chapter at Harvard University on march 7th, 2019. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: www.thomisticinstitute.org About the speaker: Therese Scarpelli Cory is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in the thought of Thomas Aquinas and his Arabic sources. She loves discussing philosophy with her students, and is especially interested in problems relating to the human person, the mind / soul, and how to live well.

Mar 13, 2019 • 46 min

This talk was offered at Trinity University, San Antonio on February 11th, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Lecture Description: Every year around Christmas and Easter, it seems, the media runs a story about “who Jesus really was.” Magazine articles and television specials purport to tell us the truth about the man from Nazareth – a truth, they often claim, that the Church has tried to cover up for centuries. These stories represent one popular manifestation of what has come to be known as the “quest for the historical Jesus.” While this quest is a legitimate scholarly discipline, it can sometimes unsettle believers, leading them to question the reliability of the gospels and the truth of the Church’s faith in Christ. In this talk, Fr. Morales will first consider a couple of the main presuppositions that underlie much historical Jesus scholarship. He will then discuss the nature of the gospels and their relation to history. Finally, he will offer a brief sketch of what we can know about Jesus based simply on historical research, arguing that a responsible historical sketch helps to illuminate the Church’s faith in Christ. Speaker Bio: Fr. Isaac Morales, O.P. entered the Dominican novitiate for the Province of St. Joseph in the summer of 2012. Before joining the order, Fr. Isaac received a BSE in civil engineering from Duke University, an MTS with a concentration in biblical studies from the University of Notre Dame, and a PhD in New Testament from Duke University. After completing his PhD, he taught in the department of theology at Marquette University for four years. During the academic year 201112, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the LudwigMaximilians Universität in Munich. Fr. was ordained to the priesthood in May of 2018.

Mar 12, 2019 • 36 min

This lecture was given at our chapter at Texas A&M University on February 25, 2019. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: www.thomisticinstitute.org Speaker Bio: Gloria Frost is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. Her areas of research are medieval philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and the history of science. She is an assistant editor for the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly and on the executive councils for the American Catholic Philosophical Association and the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy. She is married to Jake Frost, author of "Catholic Dad" and the "Happy Jar," and they have four children.

Mar 11, 2019 • 1h 6m

This talk was offered for as part of our Thomistic Circle Series, "On Sacrifice and the Virtue of Religion" held at DHS on March 1st & 2nd, 2019. The handout prepared by Fr. Langevin can be found here: tinyurl.com/wntw4z4 This conference featured Prof. Reinhard Huetter (The Catholic University of America), Fr. Dominic Langevin, OP (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception), Prof. Gary Anderson (University of Notre Dame), and Fr. David Meconi, SJ (St. Louis University).

Mar 8, 2019 • 59 min

Fr. Gregory Pine explores the idea of Lent as a penitential season that helps individuals confront their own limitations and weaknesses, challenging the notion of inevitable progress and perfection. He delves into the Christian concepts of original justice, original sin, and redemption, highlighting how these shape human nature and our relationship with God. This talk was given by Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. for the Thomistic Institute's University College Dublin chapter on March 6, 2019. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org.

Mar 6, 2019 • 1h 5m

This talk was offered for as part of our Thomistic Circle Series, "On Sacrifice and the Virtue of Religion" held at DHS on March 1st & 2nd, 2019. This conference featured Prof. Reinhard Huetter (The Catholic University of America), Fr. Dominic Langevin, OP (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception), Prof. Gary Anderson (University of Notre Dame), and Fr. David Meconi, SJ (St. Louis University).

Mar 5, 2019 • 1h 6m

This talk was offered for as part of our Thomistic Circle on "On Sacrifice and the Virtue of Religion" held at DHS on March 1st & 2nd, 2019. This featured Prof. Reinhard Huetter (The Catholic University of America), Fr. Dominic Langevin, OP (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception), Prof. Gary Anderson (University of Notre Dame), and Fr. David Meconi, SJ (St. Louis University).

Mar 1, 2019 • 1h 5m

This lecture was offered at our chapter at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on February 22nd, 2019. For more information on upcoming events, visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org.

Feb 27, 2019 • 59 min

This lecture was delivered to the Thomistic Institute's Harvard University Undergraduate chapter on March 21, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/.

Feb 26, 2019 • 50 min

This lecture was given by Prof. James Madden for our chapter at the University of South Carolina on February 13th, 2019. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the Speaker: James Madden is Professor of Philosophy at Benedictine College. He lives in Atchison, Kansas with his wife (Jennifer) and their six children; William, Martha, J. Patrick, Brendan, Jack, and Cormac. He is originally from Wisconsin, where he received a B.A. from St. Norbert College, and did his graduate work at Kent State (MA, 1998) and Purdue (Ph.D., 2002). He was awarded the Benedictine College Distinguished Educator of the Year Award in 2006.

Feb 25, 2019 • 44 min

This talk was offered on February 15th, 2019. For more info about upcoming TI events in North America check out, thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/ For events in Europe, visit: angelicum.it/thomistic-institute/thomistic-events/ Speaker Bio: Thomas Joseph White, O.P., entered the Order of Preachers in 2003. His research and teaching have focused particularly on topics related to Thomistic metaphysics and Christology as well as Roman Catholic-Reformed ecumenical dialogue. He is the author of Wisdom in the Face of Modernity: A Study in Thomistic Natural Theology (Sapientia Press, 2009), The Incarnate Lord: A Thomistic Study in Christology (The Catholic University of America Press, 2015), Exodus (Brazos Press, 2016), and The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism (The Catholic University of America Press, 2017). He has edited several books, and is co-editor of the theological journal Nova et Vetera (English edition). In 2011 he was appointed an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. He is currently teaching at the Angelicum in Rome and is the Director of the Thomistic Institute at the Angelcum.

Feb 22, 2019 • 32 min

This talk was offered on February 16th, 2019 at Princeton Theological Seminary. It was one of the talks offered at the "Faith, Science and Nature Conference" co-sponsored by the Thomistic Institute, the Scala Foundation and PTS. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Speaker Bio: Michael Gorman is Ordinary Professor of Philosophy at CUA. He received a doctorate in philosophy from SUNY Buffalo and a doctorate in theology from Boston College. He is also a scholar in the Templeton Virtue Project and a fellow of CUA's Institute for Human Ecology. He recently published a book, Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Hypostatic Union, published by Cambridge University Press.

Feb 21, 2019 • 1h 1m

This talk was offered on February 16th, 2019 at Princeton Theological Seminary. It was one of the talks offered at the "Faith, Science and Nature Conference" co-sponsored by the Thomistic Institute, the Scala Foundation and PTS. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Speaker Bio: Professor Stephen Barr teaches at the University of Delaware in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. His research interests focus on elementary particle theory, supersymmetric grand unified theories, and cosmology.

Feb 20, 2019 • 59 min

This talk was offered on February 16th, 2019 at Princeton Theological Seminary. It was one of the talks offered at the "Faith, Science and Nature Conference" co-sponsored by the Thomistic Institute, the Scala Foundation and PTS. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Speaker Bio: Margarita Mooney is an Associate Professor of Congregational Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary and also the founder of the Scala Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to reinvigorating classical liberal arts education and preserving the ideas and practices necessary to maintain a free society. Dr. Mooney holds a B.A. in Psychology from Yale University, and then earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University, publishing her dissertation as the book, "Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora" in 2009. Before returning to Princeton in 2016, Dr. Mooney was on the faculty of the Sociology Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2007-2013, and then served on the faculty for the Sociology Dept. at Yale University from 2013-2016. Her research has been funded by two grants from the John Templeton Foundation totaling more than $3 million. She is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively entitled Living a Broken Life, Beautifully that explores the religious lives of young adults who have experienced traumatic life events.

Feb 19, 2019 • 1h 10m

This talk was offered on February 16th, 2019 at Princeton Theological Seminary. It was one of the talks offered at the "Faith, Science and Nature Conference" co-sponsored by the Thomistic Institute, the Scala Foundation and PTS. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Speaker Bio: Fr. James Dominic Brent, O.P. was born and raised in Michigan. He pursued his undergraduate and graduate studies in Philosophy, and completed his doctorate in Philosophy at Saint Louis University on the epistemic status of Christian beliefs according to Saint Thomas Aquinas. He has articles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Natural Theology, in the Oxford Handbook of Thomas Aquinas on “God’s Knowledge and Will”, and an article forthcoming on “Thomas Aquinas” in the Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology. He earned his STL from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, and was ordained a priest in the same year. He taught in the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America from 2010- 2014, and spent the year of 2014-2015 doing full time itinerant preaching on college campuses across the United States. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception.