The Thomistic Institute

May 1, 2019 • 1h 1m

This talk was offered at the University of Oklahoma on March 5th, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. About the speaker: Dr. Matthew Ramage is Associate Professor of Theology at Benedictine College in Atchison, KS. He is author, coauthor, or cotranslator of several books, including Dark Passages of the Bible: Engaging Scripture with Benedict XVI and Thomas Aquinas (Catholic University of America Press, 2013) and Jesus, Interpreted: Benedict XVI, Bart Ehrman, and the Historical Truth of the Gospels (CUA Press, 2017). Dr. Ramage's articles have appeared in a variety of scholarly journals including Nova et Vetera, Scripta Theologica, Cithara, and Homiletic and Pastoral Review as well as popular online venues such as Strange Notions, The Gregorian Institute, and Crisis. Dr. Ramage has been interviewed by news outlets including the National Catholic Register and First Things and has made periodic appearances on the EWTN programs Catholic Answers Live, Catholicism on Campus, and The Son Rise Morning Show. Dr. Ramage lives in Atchison, Kansas, with his wife, Jennifer, and five children. For more on his work and his CV, visit Dr. Ramage's website www.truthincharity.com.

Apr 30, 2019 • 50 min

This talk was offered at George Mason University on March 5th, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 About the Speaker: 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.

Apr 27, 2019 • 1h 4m

The panel discussion concluded the West Coast Intellectual Retreat held at St. Albert's Priory March 22-24, 2019.

Apr 26, 2019 • 58 min

The lecture was given as part of the West Coast Intellectual Retreat held at St. Albert's Priory March 22-24, 2019.

Apr 24, 2019 • 59 min

The lecture was given as part of the West Coast Intellectual Retreat held at St. Albert's Priory March 22-24, 2019. Presenters: Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. (Assistant Director of Campus Outreach for the Thomistic Institute) Prof. Steven Jensen - University of St. Thomas (Houston) Fr. John Corbett, O.P. - Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception Conference Titles: 1. Principles of the Moral Life 2. The One Thing Necessary: The Last End and Beatitude 3. Our Good and God: Our Place Within the Greater Good 4. In Us Without Us: The Infused Virtues 5. Beyond Human Means: The Gifts of the Holy Spirit Retreat Theme Description: In the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas, all creation proceeds from God and returns to him. With the complication of sin, that return is complicated. In Jesus Christ and through the sacraments, God orchestrates the redemption of sinful man by gradually introducing him into the life of divine communion. And, in that movement, man is engaged not merely as a passive recipient, but also as an agent—as a protagonist. Given this understanding, questions of morality cannot simply be boiled down to do’s and don’ts. For St. Thomas, the moral life is first about God and then about the way we are called to return to Him. This is what we mean by “the good life.” For more info about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Apr 18, 2019 • 57 min

The lecture was given as part of the West Coast Intellectual Retreat held at St. Albert's Priory March 22-24, 2019. Presenters: Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. (Assistant Director of Campus Outreach for the Thomistic Institute) Prof. Steven Jensen - University of St. Thomas (Houston) Fr. John Corbett, O.P. - Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception Conference Titles: 1. Principles of the Moral Life 2. The One Thing Necessary: The Last End and Beatitude 3. Our Good and God: Our Place Within the Greater Good 4. In Us Without Us: The Infused Virtues 5. Beyond Human Means: The Gifts of the Holy Spirit Retreat Theme Description: In the teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas, all creation proceeds from God and returns to him. With the complication of sin, that return is complicated. In Jesus Christ and through the sacraments, God orchestrates the redemption of sinful man by gradually introducing him into the life of divine communion. And, in that movement, man is engaged not merely as a passive recipient, but also as an agent—as a protagonist. Given this understanding, questions of morality cannot simply be boiled down to do’s and don’ts. For St. Thomas, the moral life is first about God and then about the way we are called to return to Him. This is what we mean by “the good life.” For more info about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Apr 16, 2019 • 1h 2m

This lecture was offered at UVA on March 21st, 2019. For more info on upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Speaker Bio: R. J. Snell is Director of the Center on the University and Intellectual Life. Prior to his appointment at the Witherspoon Institute, he was for many years Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophy Program at Eastern University and the Templeton Honors College, where he founded and directed the Agora Institute for Civic Virtue and the Common Good. He earned his M.A. in philosophy at Boston College, and his Ph.D. in philosophy at Marquette University. Research interests include the liberal arts, ethics, natural law theory, Thomas Aquinas, the Catholic intellectual tradition, and the work of Bernard Lonergan, SJ. He is the author of Through a Glass Darkly: Bernard Lonergan and Richard Rorty on Knowing without a God’s-eye View (Marquette, 2006), Authentic Cosmopolitanism (with Steve Cone, Pickwick, 2013), The Perspective of Love: Natural Law in a New Mode (Pickwick, 2014), Acedia and Its Discontents (Angelico, 2015), and co-editor of Subjectivity: Ancient and Modern (Lexington, 2016) and Nature: Ancient and Modern (Lexington), as well as articles, chapters, and essays in a variety of scholarly and popular venues. He and his family reside in the Princeton area.

Apr 13, 2019 • 31 min

This talk was offered on April 3rd, 2019 at the Angelicum in preparation for Holy Week. For more information about upcoming TI events visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Apr 12, 2019 • 56 min

This talk was offered at California State University, Fullerton on March 20, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Speaker Bio: 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. A Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Kaczor is a former Federal Chancellor Fellow at the University of Cologne and William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. He is an award winning author of twelve books including The Gospel of Happiness, The Seven Big Myths about Marriage, A Defense of Dignity, The Seven Big Myths about the Catholic Church, The Ethics of Abortion, O Rare Ralph McInerny: Stories and Reflections on a Legendary Notre Dame Professor, Thomas Aquinas on the Cardinal Virtues; Life IssuesMedical Choices; Thomas Aquinas on Faith, Hope, and Love; The Edge of Life, and Proportionalism and the Natural Law Tradition. Dr. Kaczor’s views have been in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Huffington Post, National Review, NPR, BBC, EWTN, ABC, NBC, FOX, CBS, MSNBC, TEDx, and The Today Show.

Apr 11, 2019 • 1h 3m

This talk was offered on March 19th, 2019 at University of South Carolina. For more information about upcoming TI events, check out thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Apr 11, 2019 • 1h 3m

The lecture was given as part of the West Coast Intellectual Retreat held at St. Albert's Priory March 22-24, 2019.

Apr 10, 2019 • 1h 16m

This lecture was offered at Brown University on March 12th, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Speaker Bio ThérèseAnne Druart is ordinary professor at the School of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America, where she has been teaching since 1987. Before that she had become an associate professor at Georgetown University (1978-87). She obtained an M.A. in Medieval Studies (1971) and a Ph.D. in Philosophy with a dissertation on Plato (1973) at the Université Catholique de Louvain and a B.Phil. in Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology at Oxford (1975). In 1975-1976 she was a Research fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University. Her field is Medieval Philosophy in Islamic Lands. She has edited several books and published more than 80 articles. Every year she publishes on the web the bibliography for Medieval and PostClassical Islamic Philosophy. She has been president for the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy (2000-2002), President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (2009-2010) and since 2010 is president of SIHSPAI (Société Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences et de la Philosophie Arabe et Islamique, Paris). In 2014 she was awarded the Marianist Award.

Apr 9, 2019 • 1h 18m

This lecture was held on March 6th, 2019 at Yale Law School. For more info about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 About the Speaker: Joseph E. Capizzi is Ordinary Professor of Moral Theology at the Catholic University of America. He teaches in the areas of social and political theology, with special interests in issues in peace and war, citizenship, political authority, and Augustinian theology. He has written, lectured, and published widely on just war theory, bioethics, the history of moral theology, and political liberalism. Dr. Capizzi is the Executive Director of the Institute for Human Ecology at Catholic University. He received his B.A. from the University of Virginia, his Masters in Theological Studies from Emory University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame. He lives in Maryland with his wife and six children.

Apr 6, 2019 • 50 min

This lecture was given for our chapter at Yale University on March 4th, 2019 by Prof. Thérèse- Anne Druart (The Catholic University of America). Thérèse- Anne Druart is ordinary professor at the School of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America, where she has been teaching since 1987. Before that she had become an associate professor at Georgetown University (197887). She obtained an M.A. in Medieval Studies (1971) and a Ph.D. in Philosophy with a dissertation on Plato (1973) at the Université Catholique de Louvain and a B.Phil. in Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology at Oxford (1975). In 19751976 she was a Research fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University. Her field is Medieval Philosophy in Islamic Lands. She has edited several books and published more than 80 articles. Every year she publishes on the web the bibliography for Medieval and PostClassical Islamic Philosophy. She has been president for the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy (20002002), President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (20092010) and since 2010 is president of SIHSPAI (Société Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences et de la Philosophie Arabe et Islamique, Paris). In 2014 she was awarded the Marianist Award.

Apr 5, 2019 • 1h 23m

This lecture was held on March 4th, 2019 at Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Event Description: Alexander Pruss, a mathematician and philosopher, will discuss how phenomena such as paradoxes of infinity and the elegant beauty of the laws of physics point to the existence of a cause for the universe. He will then examine whether this cause is likely to be God. About the Speaker: Alexander Pruss has doctorates both in philosophy and mathematics, and is currently Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University. His books include The Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Reassessment (Cambridge University Press), One Body: An Essay in Christian Sexual Ethics (Notre Dame University Press), and Actuality, Possibility and Worlds (Continuum). His research areas include metaphysics, philosophy of religion, Christian ethics, philosophy of mathematics and formal epistemology.

Apr 4, 2019 • 1h 9m

This talk was hosted as part of the ongoing DC Young Adult's Speaker Series, hosted at St. Charles Borromeo Church, Arlington, VA. The lecture was held on March 11th, 2019 and sponsored by the Thomistic Institute and the Diocese of Arlington. The talk handout is available at: tinyurl.com/u5ndo2d For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 Speaker Bio: Michael Root is Ordinary Professor of Systematic Theology at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Root is a native of Norfolk, Virginia and studied at Dartmouth College (B.A.) and Yale University (Ph.D. in theology). He was received into the Catholic Church in August, 2010. His particular theological interests are ecumenical relations, eschatology/last things, and grace and justification. Root has been a member of the US and international LutheranCatholic dialogues, the US LutheranUnited Methodist dialogue, the AnglicanLutheran International Working Group, and the AnglicanLutheran International Commission. He served on the drafting teams that produced the LutheranRoman Catholic Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.

Apr 3, 2019 • 41 min

This talk was part of the Spring NYU Conference on "Does Politics Need God?" It featured 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). This even was graciously co-sponsored by the University of Notre Dame Tocqueville Program

Apr 2, 2019 • 43 min

This lecture was given by Prof. Paul Rahe (Hillsdale College)at our conference at the Catholic Center at NYU, "Does Politics Need God?" Co-sponsored by the University of Notre Dame Tocqueville Program

Mar 30, 2019 • 47 min

This lecture was given by Fr. Gregory Pine, OP, for our chapter at UT Austin on March 27th, 2019. About the Speaker: Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. serves presently as the Assistant Director for Campus Outreach with the Thomistic Institute in Washington, DC. 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.

Mar 29, 2019 • 1h

This lecture was given by Dr. William Hurlbut (Stanford University) for a series at St. Catherine of Siena Parish in New York City on, "Health Care and God's Providence: Resources and Medical Professionals." This series was co-sponsored by the Thomistic Institute, Archcare, and the Dominican Friars Health Care Ministry of New York.