The Thomistic Institute

Oct 10, 2018 • 1h 23m

A lecture given during "Friendly Rivals: Franciscan and Dominican Intellectual Traditions" a Thomistic Circles conference at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. Sept. 28-29, 2018. For more upcoming Thomistic Institute events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

Oct 10, 2018 • 1h 1m

The full title of this lecture is: "Aquinas and Olivi on Job: A Franciscan-Dominican Dispute on Suffering, perfection, and Exegesis" This lecture was given on Sept. 28, 2018 to begin the Thomistic Circles conference "Friendly Rivals: Franciscan and Dominican Intellectual Traditions" in Washington, DC. Hand out available here: tinyurl.com/y8n8orkf

Oct 9, 2018 • 1h 3m

A lecture given during "Friendly Rivals: Franciscan and Dominican Intellectual Traditions" a Thomistic Circles conference at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. Sept. 28-29, 2018. The hand out for this lecture is available here: tinyurl.com/ybo2qjxb

Oct 6, 2018 • 1h 9m

This lecture was given on Sept. 28, 2018 to begin the Thomistic Circles conference "Friendly Rivals: Franciscan and Dominican Intellectual Traditions" in Washington, DC. Handout available here: static1.squarespace.com/static/580e5b…Univocity.pdf

Oct 5, 2018 • 1h 22m

This talk was offered on Sept. 28,2018 to begin the Thomistic Circle "Friendly Rivals: Franciscan and Dominican Intellectual Traditions. " To learn more about upcoming Thomistic Institute events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events

Oct 4, 2018 • 1h 14m

This lecture was delivered by V. Bradley Lewis(Catholic University of America) to the UC Berkeley chapter of the Thomistic Institute on September 18th, 2018. V. Bradley Lewis is associate professor in the School of Philosophy in the Catholic University of America. He specializes in political and legal philosophy, especially that of the classical Greeks and in the Thomistic tradition, and is currently working on a book on the idea of the common good. In addition to these things he has served as a consultant on ethics to the federal government, testified before a congressional subcommittee about immigration, and currently serves as associate editor of the American Journal of Jurisprudence. To learn about upcoming Thomistic Institute events visit thomisticinstitute.org/events/

Oct 3, 2018 • 1h 11m

This lecture was delivered by Chad Pecknold (Catholic University of America) to the MIT chapter of the Thomistic Institute on September 18, 2018. To learn about upcoming Thomistic Institute events visit thomisticinstitute.org/events/

Oct 2, 2018 • 1h 21m

Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, O.P., completed his Bachelor’s Degree (B.S.E.) in Bioengineering, summa cum laude, at the University of Pennsylvania, and then earned his Ph.D. in Biology from M.I.T. in the laboratory of Professor Leonard Guarente, where he was a fellow of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). He was ordained a priest in the Order of Preachers in May of 2004. He completed his Pontifical License in Sacred Theology (S.T.L.) in Moral Theology, summa cum laude, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC, in 2005, and a Pontifical Doctorate in Sacred Theology (S.T.D.), magna cum laude, at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, in 2015. Fr. Austriaco currently serves as Professor of Biology and of Theology at Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island. His NIH-funded laboratory at Providence College is investigating the genetics of programmed cell death using the yeasts, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida albicans, as model organisms. Papers describing his research have been published in PLoS ONE, FEMS Yeast Research, Microbial Cell, Cell, the Journal of Cell Biology, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, among others. In philosophy and theology, his essays have been published in the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, Theological Studies, Nova et Vetera, The Thomist, Science and Theology, and the Linacre Quarterly. His first book, Biomedicine and Beatitude: An Introduction to Catholic Bioethics, was published by the Catholic University of America Press in 2011. It was recognized as a 2012 Choice outstanding academic title by the Association of College and Research Libraries.

Sep 28, 2018 • 1h 2m

This lecture was offered as part of our "Wisdom of Aquinas" series held at NYU on September 22, 2018. The link to the handout can be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/12a3xy…/edit?usp=sharing For upcoming Thomistic Insitute events visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events

Sep 27, 2018 • 58 min

This lecture was offered as part of our "Wisdom of Aquinas" series held at NYU on September 22, 2018. The link to the handout can be found here: drive.google.com/file/d/0ByaUbskx…view?usp=sharing

Sep 26, 2018 • 53 min

In this lecture, Professor Christopher Kaczor (Loyola Marymount University) draws on insights from Aristotle, Aquinas, and contemporary psychology to understand how to make good friendships and avoid bad ones. This lecture was given to the Baylor University chapter of the Thomistic Institute on September 6, 2018. View upcoming Thomistic Institute events at: thomisticinstitute.org/events.

Sep 25, 2018 • 1h 4m

What is happiness, and what is the best and happiest life a human being can live? Or even more directly and personally, what kind of life ought I to be living or ought I to be aiming for? In this lecture, Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception and the Thomistic Institute) draws on wisdom from St. Thomas Aquinas and the classical tradition to answer these fundamental and perennial questions. This lecture was given to the Cornell University chapter of the Thomistic Institute on September 10, 2018. For further reading on this topic, consider downloading or ordering the booklet referenced in this talk, "On Happiness: Selections from Summa Theologiae by Thomas Aquinas" at www.ttf.org/product/happiness-thomas-aquinas. This reading was compiled by the Trinity Forum and features an original introduction by Fr. Dominic Legge. View upcoming Thomistic Institute events at: thomisticinstitute.org/events.

Sep 22, 2018 • 1h 14m

This lecture by Dr. Kevin Doak with a response by Fr. Joseph Koterski SJ was given on September 15th, 2018 during a day long conference on "Jesus of Nazareth and the Church's Tradition: The Enduring Legacy of Benedict XVI" held at Georgetown University.

Sep 21, 2018 • 1h 10m

This lecture by Fr. Dominic Legge with a response by Dr. Rebekah Eklund was given on September 15th, 2018 during a day long conference on "Jesus of Nazareth and the Church's Tradition: The Enduring Legacy of Benedict XVI" held at Georgetown University.

Sep 19, 2018 • 1h 11m

"No greater wonder could be accomplished than that God should become man." So writes St. Thomas Aquinas in his commentary on the Gospel of John. This statement follows a lifetime spent pondering the question of why God became man. If Aquinas fully acknowledges that the Incarnation marks an article of faith, that is, a doctrine that is accepted as true only by an act of faith, he was nonetheless convinced that the mystery of the Incarnation is not only in accord with human reason, it is deeply attractive to the human spirit. To consider the Incarnation a mystery that evokes great "wonder" is to recognize a deep beauty and coherence that is part and parcel of God's having become man. In today's age, which tends to regard articles of faith as irrational and the Incarnation, in particular, as a myth, Thomas Aquinas has a valuable perspective that merits our close consideration. This lecture was given by Paul Gondreau (Providence College) on September 11, 2018 to the University of Oklahoma chapter of the Thomistic Institute. For more upcoming TI events, visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org/events

Sep 19, 2018 • 45 min

This talk, "Deus adorans, Homo adorans: Joseph Ratzinger's Liturgical Christology & Anthropology" was offered on September 15th, 2018 during a day long conference on "Jesus of Nazareth and the Church's Tradition: The Enduring Legacy of Benedict XVI" held at Georgetown University.

Sep 18, 2018 • 54 min

The re-emergence of Israel as a nation-state caught the world by surprise. That Israel matters geo-politically cannot be doubted, but does it matter theologically? Is there a place for Israel, as there is for Jews, in Christian eschatology? In this lecture, Douglas Farrow (McGill University) gives a theological perspective on these questions. This lecture was given to the DC Young Adults chapter of the Thomistic Institute on September 5, 2018.

Sep 15, 2018 • 1h 10m

This talk was offered as the Thomistic Institute Lecture in Medieval Dominican Thought at the Boston College Colloquy in Historical Theology on August 4th, 2018. For more information on upcoming events, check out our events calendar: thomisticinstitute.org/events/?view=…eptember-2018

Sep 14, 2018 • 49 min

Is the existence of the soul compatible with the discoveries of neuroscience? It depends on whose conception of the soul, and which discoveries in neuroscience one has in mind. In this lecture, Daniel De Haan (Cambridge University) draws on recent research from the new mechanistic philosophy of neuroscience and psychology to help articulate a contemporary Aristotelian account of the human person as a “hylomorphically” ensouled body. This lecture was given to the London Young Adults chapter of the Thomistic Institute on April 4, 2018. View upcoming Thomistic Institute events at: tinyurl.com/y9jv4qzx

Sep 13, 2018 • 1h 23m

This is a recording from the panel discussion at the end of our Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship on July 20th, 2018 Civitas Dei is an annual summer fellowship sponsored by the Thomistic Institute and the Institute for Human Ecology.