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This lecture was given at Hillsdale College on 26 February 2020. About the speaker: Kevin Hart is the Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia where he also holds professorships in the Departments of English and French. His most recent scholarly books include Kingdoms of God (Indiana UP, 2014) and Poetry and Revelation (Bloom...

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.

This lecture was given at the College of William and Mary on 27 February, 2020. The handout for this lecture can be found here: tinyurl.com/y7c3k73c Speaker Bio: A native of Louisiana, Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, OP entered the Province of St. Joseph in 2005. After several years of pastoral work in New York City, Fr. Guilbeau began doctoral studies in moral theology at the University of Fribourg, where...

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.

This lecture was given at Duke University on 27 February 2020. Speaker Bio: Prof. Robin Jensen’s research and publication focuses on the relationship between early Christian art and literature and examines the ways that visual images and architectural spaces should be regarded as modes of theological expression. Her published essays and books contend that, in addition to interpreting sacred texts,...

This lecture was given at the University of South Carolina on February 20, 2020. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. 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 Augu...

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.

This lecture was given at Mississippi State University on February 20, 2020. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Joseph Trabbic is associate professor of philosophy at Ave Maria University, where he has taught since 2006. He earned his PhD in philosophy from Fordham University in 2008. His areas of interest include Aquinas, continental philosophy, metaphysics, ph...

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. Speaker bio: Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. Fr. Dominic Legge is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and an assistant professor...

This lecture was given at Harvard University on February 13, 2020. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Andrew Willard Jones is the Director of the St. Paul Center and a Faculty Fellow at Franciscan University of Steubenville. Jones holds a PhD in Medieval History from Saint Louis University with a focus on the Church of the High Middle Ages. Jones’s work is prima...

This lecture was given at a conference on "Love, Friendship, and Happiness," co-sponsored with the Scala Foundation and the Aquinas Institute at Princeton Theological Seminary on February 15, 2020. This conference featured Prof. Erika Kidd (University of St. Thomas), Prof. Craig Titus (Divine Mercy University), Prof. Anna Moreland (Villanova University), and Dr. RJ Snell (The Witherspoon Institute...

This lecture was given at Princeton University on February 15, 2020. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Prof. Erika Kidd is Associate Professor of Catholic Studies and the Director of the Masters in Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas. For more information on the masters program, please visit www.stthomas.edu/catholicstudies/masters/.

This lecture was given at Tulane University on February 4, 2020. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Jay W. Richards, Ph. D., is the author of many books including the New York Times bestsellers Infiltrated (2013) and Indivisible (2012). He is also the author of Money, Greed, and God, winner of a 2010 Templeton Enterprise Award; and co-author of The Privileged Pl...

Professor Joseph Capizzi discusses why the Catholic Church is not pacifist, exploring the historical and theological contexts that justify the use of force in certain situations, particularly in defense of vulnerable people. This lecture was given at Duke University on February 13, 2020. For more events and info please visit  thomisticinstitute.org/events-1 . Prof. Joseph E. Capizzi is Ordina...

This lecture was given at Trinity College Dublin on 13 February 2020. Professor Lewis Ayres is a professor of Catholic and Historical Theology at Durham University. His core research has focused on Trinitarian theology in Augustine and in the Greek writers of the fourth century. His current research concentrates on the development of early Christian cultures of interpretation between 100 and 250....

This lecture was given at Yale University on 12 February 2020. Fr. Gregory Pine, OP 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 a...

This lecture was given at Georgetown University on February 12, 2020. For more events and info visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Zena Hitz is a Tutor at St. John's College where she teaches across the liberal arts. She is interested in defending intellectual activity for its own sake, as against its use for economic or political goals. Her forthcoming book, Intellectual Life, is rooted in ess...

This lecture was given on 12 September 2019 at Cornell University. Therese Scarpelli Cory is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in the thought of Thomas Aquinas and his Arabic sources. She loves discussing philosophy with her students, and is especially interested in problems relating to the human person, the mind / soul, and how to live well. For more...

This lecture was given on 5 February 2020 at North Carolina State University. Prof. Michael Sirilla is the former Director of Graduate Theology and currently Professor of Systematic Theology at the Franciscan University of Steubenville, where he has taught since 2002. He earned his Ph. D. in systematic theology from The Catholic University of America. His book, The Ideal Bishop: Aquinas’s Commenta...

This lecture was given on 6 February 2020 at Georgetown Law School. 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, P...

This lecture was given at the University of Oklahoma on February 6, 2020. For more events and info visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Francis J. Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy & Church-State Studies at Baylor University, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy. Among his over one dozen books are Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Ab...

This lecture was given at UC Berkeley on February 3, 2020. For more events and info visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Professor Paul Symington graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Philosophy and Religion from Roberts Wesleyan College in 1998. He received an M.A. in Theology from Northeastern Seminary in 2001 and an M.A. in Philosophy from Boston College in 2004. He graduated from the Stat...

This lecture was given at Ave Maria University on February 8, 2020. For more events and info visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., is the Director of the Thomistic Institute at the Angelicum and Professor of Theology. He did his doctoral studies at Oxford University. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2003. His research and teaching have focused particularly on to...

This lecture was given to the DC Young Adults Chapter on 10 February 2020. John A. Cuddeback, PhD, is professor of Philosophy at Christendom College, where he has taught for twenty-four years. He lectures widely on topics including virtue, fatherhood, friendship, and household, and his professional writings appear in various academic journals and books. His book True Friendship is being republishe...

This lecture was given at Baylor University on February 6, 2020. For more events and info please visit thomisticinstitute.org/events-1. Ulrich L. Lehner specializes in religious history and theology of the Early Modern period, the Enlightenment, and the 19th century. Among his publications are ten authored books and sixteen edited volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology, 16...