The Thomistic Institute

The Thomistic Institute

The Thomistic Institute exists to promote Catholic truth in our contemporary world by strengthening the intellectual formation of Christians at universities, in the Church, and in the wider public square. The thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Universal Doctor of the Church, is our touchstone. The Thomistic Institute Podcast features the lectures and talks from our conferences, campus chapters events, intellectual retreats, livestream events,  and much more. Founded in 2009, the Thomistic Institute is part of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies...

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The Resurrection | Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. 17.08.2020

This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute's Holy Week Retreat, April 9-12, 2020. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. serves presently as Assistant Director of Campus Outreach for the Thomistic Institute. He served previously as an associate pastor at St. Louis Bertrand Church in Louisville...

The Descent into Hell | Fr. Jacob Bertrand Janczyk, O.P. 14.08.2020

This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute's Holy Week Retreat, April 9-12, 2020. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Jacob Bertrand Janczyk was ordained to the priesthood in May 2017. He is a graduate of Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY, where he earned a degree in biomedical sciences.

The Death of the Lord | Fr. James Brent, O.P. 12.08.2020

This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute's Holy Week Retreat, April 9-12, 2020. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. James Dominic Brent, O.P. was born and raised in Michigan. He pursued his undergraduate and graduate studies in Philosophy, and completed his doctorate in Philosophy at Saint Louis University...

The Passion Of The Lord | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. 10.08.2020

This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute's Holy Week Retreat, April 9-12, 2020. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Dominic Legge is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and an assistant professor in systematic theology at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. he holds a JD from Yale Law Sch...

The Via Dolorosa | Fr. Basil Cole, O.P. 07.08.2020

This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute's Holy Week Retreat, April 9-12, 2020. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Joining the Dominicans of the Western Province in 1960, Fr. Cole was ordained to the priesthood in 1966. He finished his theological studies at Le Saulchoir in Etiolles, France earning the lectora...

The Eucharist and Spiritual Communion | Fr. Dominic Langevin, O.P. 05.08.2020

This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute's Holy Week Retreat, April 9-12, 2020. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Langevin entered the Order of Friars Preachers in 1998 and was ordained a priest in 2005. He was formerly assigned as a parochial vicar at St. Thomas Aquinas University Parish in Charlottesvil...

The New Commandment | Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. 03.08.2020

This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute's Holy Week Retreat, April 9-12, 2020. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. serves presently as Assistant Director of Campus Outreach for the Thomistic Institute. He served previously as an associate pastor at St. Louis Bertrand Church in Louisville...

A Sacrificial Presence: The Priesthood of Christ | Fr. Reginald Lynch, O.P. 31.07.2020

This talk was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the Thomistic Institute's Quarantine Lecture series. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org

Aquinas on the Blessed Mother | Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P. 29.07.2020

This talk was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the Thomistic Institute's Quarantine Lecture series. For more information on upcoming events visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org

The Catholic Imagination in JRR Tolkien and Flannery O'Connor | Prof. Raymond Hain 27.07.2020

This lecture was given at Queen's University on February 5, 2020. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Professor Raymond Hain is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Providence College and Associate Director of the Providence College Humanities Program. He received his BA in Philosophy from Christendom College and his MA and PhD in Philosophy from the University o...

Can Science Explain Everything? | Prof. John Lennox 24.07.2020

This lecture was given at Oxford University on February 19, 2020. For more events and info, please visit thomisticinstitute.org Prof. John Lennox studied at the Royal School Armagh, Northern Ireland and was Exhibitioner and Senior Scholar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University from which he took his MA, MMath and PhD. He worked for many years in the Mathematics Institute at the University of Wa...

The Nature of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Nature | Fr. Brian Chrzastek, O.P. 22.07.2020

This talk was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the Thomistic Institute's Quarantine Lecture series. For more information on upcoming events, visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org

Is the Bible True and Accurate? | Fr. Terence Crotty 20.07.2020

This talk was given at the University College Dublin on February 25, 2020. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Fr. Terence Crotty, OP, is a doctor of Biblical Theology and is Student Master of the Irish Dominican Province.

Four Futures: The Catholic Church in America | Prof. Gladden Pappin 17.07.2020

This lecture was given at Southern Methodist University on March 10, 2020. For Prof. Pappin's slideshow, please see thomisticinstitute.org/four-futures-…ica-slideshow For the lecture audio synced with Prof. Pappin's slideshow, please see www.youtube.com/watch?v=odhqf4wdG48 For more events and info, please visit thomisticinstitute.org Prof. Gladden Pappin is assistant professor of politics at the U...

How Is God Our Father? | Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P. 15.07.2020

This talk was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the Thomistic Institute's Quarantine Lecture series. For more information on the Quarantine Lectures and to subscribe, visit us online: thomisticinstitute.org/quarantine-lectures.

An Unjust Law is No Law at All | Prof. Raymond Hain 13.07.2020

This lecture was given at Florida State University on February 25, 2020. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Prof. Raymond Hain is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Providence College and Associate Director of the Providence College Humanities Program. He received his BA in Philosophy from Christendom College and his MA and PhD in Philosophy from the Universit...

Aquinas on Mystical Union with God | Fr. Bernhard Blankenhorn 10.07.2020

This lecture was given at Stanford University on November 18, 2019. For more events and info, please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Fr. Bernhard is professor of theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome and associate director of its Thomistic Institute. He did his doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, under the direction of Gil...

Born Broken? Aquinas On Original Sin | Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. 08.07.2020

This talk was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the Thomistic Institute's Quarantine Lecture series. For more information on the Quarantine Lectures and to subscribe, visit us online: thomisticinstitute.org/quarantine-lectures.

Does Nature Make Laws?: An Introduction to the Natural Law Tradition | Prof. Raymond Hain 06.07.2020

This lecture was given at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on October 17, 2019. About the speaker: Professor Raymond Hain is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Providence College and Associate Director of the Providence College Humanities Program. He received his BA in Philosophy from Christendom College and his MA and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, where he studie...

Does God Exist? Defending the Divine Based on Reason | Prof. Alexander Pruss 03.07.2020

This lecture was presented by the campus chapter of the Thomistic Institute at Stanford University on October 4, 2019. Prof. 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 Ethi...

Angels and Demons | Fr. Basil Cole, O.P. 01.07.2020

This talk was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the Thomistic Institute's Quarantine Lecture series. For more information on the Quarantine Lectures and to subscribe, visit us online: thomisticinstitute.org/quarantine-lectures.

Moral Enhancement: Exemplars and Epistemic Trust | Prof. Stephen Napier 29.06.2020

This talk was offered as part of our Thomistic Circles Series, "Neuroscience and the Soul" held at DHS on February 28th & 29th, 2020. Prof. Stephen Napier is Assistant Professor of moral epistemology, cognitive science of intuitions, bioethics, and metaphysics of persons at the Villanova University. Prof. Napier has over 18 peer reviewed publications. His research interests include epistemolog...

Neuroscience and the Human Soul | Prof. Marie George 26.06.2020

This lecture was given at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC, on February 29, 2020. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Marie George has been a member of the Philosophy Department at St. John's University since 1988. Professor George is an Aristotelian-Thomist whose interests lie primarily in the areas of philosophy of nature and philosophy of scien...

Is Belief In The Trinity Irrational? | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. 24.06.2020

This talk was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the Thomistic Institute's Quarantine Lecture series. For more information on the Quarantine Lectures and to subscribe, visit us online: thomisticinstitute.org/quarantine-lectures.

The Rise of Modern Atheism: Distinguishing Fact from Fiction | Prof. Anna Moreland 22.06.2020

This lecture was given at Harvard University Graduate school on March 5, 2020. About the speaker: Anna Bonta Moreland is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University. She received her B.A. in Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park, and her M.A. and Ph. D. in Systematic Theology from Boston College. Anna Bonta Moreland’s areas of research include fa...

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