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Feb. 17, 2023

Do You Believe in Miracles?(And Can You Do So Reasonably?) | Prof. W.…

This lecture was given on October 20, 2022, at the University of North Texas. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: W. Matthews Grant is Professor and Chair in the Dep...

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Feb. 16, 2023

The Biblical Vision of Wisdom and the Spiritual Life | Fr. Jordan Sch…

This lecture was given on December 13, 2022 at Immaculate Conception Church, Washington, D.C. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Jordan Schmidt was born in Far...

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Feb. 15, 2023

Modern Science and the Catholic Faith | Prof. Chris Baglow

Prof. Baglow's slides can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/5fmmww36 This lecture was given on November 29, 2022, at North Carolina State University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org...

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Feb. 14, 2023

Predestination and Human Freedom: A Catholic Approach | Prof. W. Matt…

Prof. Grant's handout can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/6p6nzf7e This lecture was given at the University of South Carolina on November 10, 2022. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org...

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Feb. 13, 2023

Why the Roman Catholic Church? | Prof. Paige Hochschild

This lecture was given on November 15, 2022, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Dr. Paige Hochschild is a profe...

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Feb. 10, 2023

The Myth of Dante's Thomism? Reading Aquinas and Dante with the Domin…

This talk was given on November 12th, 2022, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Prof. George Corbett (Universi...

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Feb. 9, 2023

Can Philosophy Prepare You for Death? w/ Sr. Elinor Gardner, O.P.

Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Sr. Elinor Gardner about her latest Thomistic Institute, "So Death doth touch the Resurrection’: Death and Human Nature." Can Phil...

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Feb. 8, 2023

'So Death doth touch the Resurrection': Death and Human Nature | Sr. …

This lecture was given on November 17, 2022, at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Sister Elinor Gardner is a member of the Do...

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Feb. 8, 2023

From Vices to Virtues to Gifts: Aquinas and Dante on Sanctification |…

This lecture was given on November 12, 2022, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the intellectual retreat entitled, "Aquinas & Dante." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisti...

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Feb. 7, 2023

The Spiritual Geography of the Afterlife: Aquinas and Dante | Fr. Alb…

This lecture was given on November 11, 2022, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the intellectual retreat entitled, "Aquinas and Dante." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomist...

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Feb. 7, 2023

Passionate Intellects: Aquinas, Dante, and the Love of Wisdom | Prof.…

This lecture was given on November 11, 2022, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Prof. George Corbett (Universi...

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Feb. 3, 2023

Does Tradition Live? Do Doctrines 'Develop'? | Prof. Lewis Ayres

This lecture was given on November 17, 2022, at Trinity College Dublin. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Lewis Ayres is Professor of Catholic and Historical Theolo...

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Feb. 2, 2023

Does Neuroscience Disprove Free Will? | Prof. James Madden

This lecture was given on November 10th, 2022, at the University of Rochester. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Prof. James Madden is Professor of Philosophy at ...

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Jan. 31, 2023

It's My Right: What Are Natural Rights and What Rights Do We Have? | …

This lecture was given on November 9, 2022, at Regent University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Dr. Trabbic is associate professor of philosophy at Ave Maria Un...

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Jan. 30, 2023

Love in Person—in the Trinity and in Our Souls | Fr. John Baptist Ku,…

Fr. Ku's handout can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/2p88mf28 This lecture was given on November 9, 2022, at Trinity University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speake...

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Jan. 27, 2023

Made for Another: John Paul II's Theology of the Body and Thomas Aqui…

This lecture was given on December 5, 2022, at St. Charles Catholic Church in Arlington, Virginia. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Father Thomas Petri, O.P. is th...

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Jan. 26, 2023

Is It Possible to Have Productive Conversations About Abortion? w/ Pr…

Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Dr. Angela Knobel about her latest Thomistic Institute, "The Philosophy of the Abortion Debate." The Philosophy of the Abortion De...

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Jan. 25, 2023

May Life-Sustaining Treatment Be Withheld or Withdrawn? | Prof. Gina …

This lecture was given on December 2, 2022, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Gina Maria Noia is an Assistant Professor ...

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Jan. 24, 2023

Reason, Grace, and Law: Suarez and Hobbes on Coercion, Church, and St…

This lecture was given on October 27, 2022, at Harvard University. For more information, visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Professor Thomas Pink read history and philosophy at Cambridge, where he also received his PhD. After workin...

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Jan. 23, 2023

Justice and the Common Good According to St. Thomas Aquinas | Fr. Aqu…

This talk was given on November 8, 2022, at the University of Virginia. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: A native of Louisiana, Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P. entere...

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Jan. 20, 2023

Classical and Christian Perspectives on Love and Friendship | Prof. J…

This talk was given on October 28, 2022, at the Thomistic Institute Chapter in New York City. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Joshua Hochschild is Professor of Ph...

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Jan. 19, 2023

Joyful Resistance | Dr. R.J. Snell

This talk was given on December 4, 2022, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the intellectual retreat entitled, "Avoiding Acedia." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at thomisticinstitut...

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Jan. 18, 2023

Acedia II: Human Sorrow, Divine Mercy: An Exploration in Catholic Art…

Prof. Hibbs' slides can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/5xnw4dv8 This talk was given on December 3, 2022, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the intellectual retreat entitled, "Avoiding Acedia." For more informat...

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Jan. 17, 2023

Acedia I: How Our Sorrows Determine the State of Our Souls | Prof. Th…

This talk was given on December 3, 2022, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the intellectual retreat entitled, "Avoiding Acedia." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at thomisticinstitut...

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