Episodes
Feb. 21, 2023
Let Us Pray: Naming God and Our Needs in the Prayers of the Mass | Fr. Innocent Smith, O.P.
Fr. Smith's handout can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/4zwb74vr This talk was given on January 13, 2023, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of "The Mystery of the Liturgy." For more information, please visit thomis...
Feb. 20, 2023
Edith Stein and the Gestalt of the Feminine Soul | Prof. Catherine Pakaluk
This talk was given on January 12, 2023, at John Hopkins University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Catherine Ruth Pakaluk is an Associate Professor of Social Re...
Feb. 17, 2023
Do You Believe in Miracles?(And Can You Do So Reasonably?) | Prof. W. Matthews Grant
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...
Feb. 16, 2023
The Biblical Vision of Wisdom and the Spiritual Life | Fr. Jordan Schmidt, O.P.
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...
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...
Feb. 14, 2023
Predestination and Human Freedom: A Catholic Approach | Prof. W. Matthews Grant
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...
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...
Feb. 10, 2023
The Myth of Dante's Thomism? Reading Aquinas and Dante with the Dominicans | Prof. George Corbett
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...
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...
Feb. 8, 2023
'So Death doth touch the Resurrection': Death and Human Nature | Sr. Elinor Gardner, O.P.
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...
Feb. 8, 2023
From Vices to Virtues to Gifts: Aquinas and Dante on Sanctification | Fr. Albert Trudel, O.P.
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...
Feb. 7, 2023
The Spiritual Geography of the Afterlife: Aquinas and Dante | Fr. Albert Trudel, O.P.
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...
Feb. 7, 2023
Passionate Intellects: Aquinas, Dante, and the Love of Wisdom | Prof. George Corbett
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...
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...
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 ...
Jan. 31, 2023
It's My Right: What Are Natural Rights and What Rights Do We Have? | Prof. Joseph Trabbic
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...
Jan. 30, 2023
Love in Person—in the Trinity and in Our Souls | Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P.
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...
Jan. 27, 2023
Made for Another: John Paul II's Theology of the Body and Thomas Aquinas | Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P.
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...
Jan. 26, 2023
Is It Possible to Have Productive Conversations About Abortion? w/ Prof. Angela Knobel
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...
Jan. 25, 2023
May Life-Sustaining Treatment Be Withheld or Withdrawn? | Prof. Gina Noia
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 ...
Jan. 24, 2023
Reason, Grace, and Law: Suarez and Hobbes on Coercion, Church, and State | Prof. Thomas Pink
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...
Jan. 23, 2023
Justice and the Common Good According to St. Thomas Aquinas | Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P.
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...
Jan. 20, 2023
Classical and Christian Perspectives on Love and Friendship | Prof. Joshua Hochschild
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...
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...