The Thomistic Institute

Nov 7, 2018 • 1h 30m

This Panel Discussion was presented at Harvard Law School at the conclusion of a 2-day Conference on "Christianity and the Common Good." Speakers included Prof. Gerard Wegemer (University of Dallas), Prof. J. Budziszewski (University of Texas, Austin), Prof. Gladden Pappin (University of Dallas) Prof. Sarah Byers (Boston College) Fr. Dominic Legge, OP (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception and the Thomistic Institute), Prof. Jacqueline Rivers (Harvard University) and Prof. Adrian Vermeule (Harvard Law School) with the Keynote offered by Justice Neil Gorsuch (United States Supreme Court) For more information about upcoming Thomistic Institute events, visit:thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

Nov 6, 2018 • 1h 5m

This lecture was presented at Harvard Law School as part of a 2-day Conference on "Christianity and the Common Good." Speakers included Prof. Gerard Wegemer (University of Dallas), Prof. J. Budziszewski (University of Texas, Austin), Prof. Gladden Pappin (University of Dallas) Prof. Sarah Byers (Boston College) Fr. Dominic Legge, OP (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception and the Thomistic Institute), Prof. Jacqueline Rivers (Harvard University) and Prof. Adrian Vermeule (Harvard Law School) with the Keynote offered by Justice Neil Gorsuch (United States Supreme Court) Dr. Byers's powerpoint that accompanies this lecture can be found at: thomisticinstitute.org/byers-presentation For more information about upcoming Thomistic Institute events, visit:thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

Nov 5, 2018 • 1h 1m

This lecture was presented at Harvard Law School as part of a 2-day Conference on "Christianity and the Common Good." Speakers included Prof. Gerard Wegemer (University of Dallas), Prof. J. Budziszewski (University of Texas, Austin), Prof. Gladden Pappin (University of Dallas) Prof. Sarah Byers (Boston College) Fr. Dominic Legge, OP (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception and the Thomistic Institute), Prof. Jacqueline Rivers (Harvard University) and Prof. Adrian Vermeule (Harvard Law School) with the Keynote offered by Justice Neil Gorsuch (United States Supreme Court) For more information about upcoming Thomistic Institute events, visit:thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

Nov 2, 2018 • 53 min

This lecture was given as a part of our conference at Harvard Law School, "Christianity and the Common Good," October 19th-20th, 2018. For more information on other upcoming events, visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org.

Nov 1, 2018 • 58 min

This lecture was delivered at Harvard Law School on October 20, 2018. It was part of a conferenced entitled "Christianity and the Common Good."

Oct 31, 2018 • 1h 2m

This talk was offered on October 2nd, 2018 at George Mason University by Dr. Michael Root (CUA) Speaker Bio: Michael Root is a native of Norfolk, Virginia. He studied at Dartmouth College (BA, summa cum laude) and Yale University (PhD. in theology). He has taught at Davidson College, Trinity Lutheran Seminary, and Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary. For ten years, he was Research Professor at the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, France. Ecumenical dialogues have been at the center of Root’s service. He was on the drafting team for the Catholic-Lutheran Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, and served on the Catholic-Lutheran dialogue both nationally and internationally, the international Lutheran-Anglican dialogue, and the US Lutheran-Methodist dialogue. He was a staff consultant to the 1993 World Conference on Faith and Order (Spain) and the 1998 Lambeth Conference (England). He has been the executive director of the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology. Root is the author (With Gabriel Fackre) of Affirmations and Admonitions (1998) and editor of Justification by Faith (with Karl Lehmann and William Rusch, 1997), Baptism and the Unity of the Church (with Risto Saarinen, 1998), and, with James Buckley, Sharper than a Two-Edged Sword: Preaching, Teaching and Living the Bible (2008), The Morally Divided Body: Ethical Disagreement and the Divided Church (2012), and Christian Theology and Islam (2013). In addition, he is the author of many scholarly articles and an associate editor of the journal Pro Ecclesia.

Oct 30, 2018 • 53 min

This talk was offered at Yale on Oct. 1st, 2018 and was present by Professor Paige Hochschild. Dr. 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 about upcoming Thomistic Institute events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

Oct 29, 2018 • 1h 8m

Fr. Dominic Legge discusses the relationship between faith and reason, challenging common misconceptions such as skepticism, fideism, and rationalism, and presents a Catholic perspective on faith as a reasonable and supernatural act, drawing on the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas. This lecture was given on Oct. 10th, 2018, for the Leonine Forum at the CIC in Washington, D.C. For more information on other upcoming events, visit our website:  thomisticinstitute.org/events

Oct 29, 2018 • 1h 50m

Supersessionism - The belief that the New Testament Covenant supersedes the Mosaic covenant of the Hebrew Bible, and that the Christian Church has displaced Israel as God's chosen people. In this dialogue held on April 25th, 2017 at Providence College, Rabbi David Novak (University of Toronto) and Fr. Thomas Joseph White OP( The Angelicum)engage in a thoughtful, and robust conversation about their respective traditions and theological convictions. Rabbi Novak and Fr. White, both respected scholars, provide an excellent example of what respectful and responsible ecumenical dialogue can look like in the modern wold.

Oct 26, 2018 • 1h 18m

This talk was given by Fr. Dominic Legge when he addressed St. Peter's parish on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. on Oct. 16, 2018. For more information on our other upcoming events, visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org/events

Oct 26, 2018 • 35 min

This talk was given on Oct. 2nd, 2018 to the Napa Institute Conference. Visit our website for more information on upcoming events: thomisticinstitute.org/events

Oct 23, 2018 • 43 min

There is an abundance of literature discussing the validity of St. Thomas Aquinas' arguments for God's existence. Using a different approach, this lecture takes these arguments as a springboard for interrogating the atheist position(s): What are the problems in asserting the world to be uncaused, or in denying the existence of a necessary being? This lecture was delivered by Fr. Conor McDonough, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies, Dublin) to the University College Dublin chapter of the Thomistic Institute on September 18, 2018.

Oct 22, 2018 • 34 min

This lecture was offered at Williams College on September 19th, 2018 by Professor Gloria Frost. About the speaker: 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.

Oct 19, 2018 • 50 min

This Panel Discussion concluded our conference which was held on Sept. 22nd, 2018 at Yale. The four previous talks brought together academics from diverse disciplines to discuss the meaning and evolution of the Christian idea of freedom. Lecturers considered the theme from the perspective of Augustine, Origen, Ambrose, Dante, Thomas Aquinas, Nicolas of Cusa, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Servais Pinckaers, and John Paul II. To find out about more upcoming Thomistic Institute events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

Oct 18, 2018 • 57 min

This lecture was given for our conference on "Christianity and Freedom." It was held on Sept. 22nd, 2018 at Yale and brought together academics from diverse disciplines to discuss the meaning and evolution of the Christian idea of freedom. Lecturers considered the theme from the perspective of Augustine, Origen, Ambrose, Dante, Thomas Aquinas, Nicolas of Cusa, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Servais Pinckaers, and John Paul II. To find out about more upcoming Thomistic Institute events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

Oct 17, 2018 • 1h 3m

This lecture was given for our conference on "Christianity and Freedom." It was held on Sept. 22nd, 2018 at Yale and brought together academics from diverse disciplines to discuss the meaning and evolution of the Christian idea of freedom. Lecturers considered the theme from the perspective of Augustine, Origen, Ambrose, Dante, Thomas Aquinas, Nicolas of Cusa, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Servais Pinckaers, and John Paul II. To find out about more upcoming Thomistic Institute events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

Oct 16, 2018 • 1h 14m

This lecture was the first one given for our conference on "Christianity and Freedom." It was held on Sept. 22nd, 2018 at Yale and brought together academics from diverse disciplines to discuss the meaning and evolution of the Christian idea of freedom. Lecturers considered the theme from the perspective of Augustine, Origen, Ambrose, Dante, Thomas Aquinas, Nicolas of Cusa, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Servais Pinckaers, and John Paul II. To find out about more upcoming Thomistic Institute events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

Oct 15, 2018 • 1h 1m

This lecture was the first one given for our conference on "Christianity and Freedom." It was held on Sept. 22nd, 2018 at Yale and brought together academics from diverse disciplines to discuss the meaning and evolution of the Christian idea of freedom. Lecturers considered the theme from the perspective of Augustine, Origen, Ambrose, Dante, Thomas Aquinas, Nicolas of Cusa, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Servais Pinckaers, and John Paul II. To find out about more upcoming Thomistic Institute events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

Oct 12, 2018 • 50 min

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov, explores the question of God’s existence against the backdrop of suffering and betrayal within a troubled family. The genius of Dostoevsky is to have grasped that there can be no love for human beings without a love for God — and conversely, there can be no belief in God without a deep and profound love for mankind. In this lecture, Professor Healy presents a brief overview of the structure and characters of the novel, focusing on the themes of solidarity and forgiveness. This lecture is the first of a three-part series titled "Tales That Tell: Moral Devastation and Original Sin in Literature," co-sponsored by the Catholic Information Center and the Thomistic Institute. It was delivered on September 19, 2018 to the DC Young Adults chapter of the Thomistic Institute. To learn about upcoming Thomistic Institute events visit thomisticinstitute.org/events/

Oct 11, 2018 • 1h 2m

In this lecture, Francis Beckwith discusses the question, "is belief in God rational?" This lecture was delivered by Francis Beckwith (Baylor University) on September 19, 2018 to the Thomistic Institute's University of Arizona chapter. To learn about upcoming Thomistic Institute events, visit thomisticinstitute.org/events/