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Fr. Dominic Legge discusses the relationship between faith and reason, challenging common misconceptions such as skepticism, fideism, and rationalism, and presents a Catholic perspective on faith as a reasonable and supernatural act, drawing on the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas. This lecture was given on Oct. 10th, 2018, for the Leonine Forum at the CIC in Washington, D.C. For more information o...

Supersessionism - The belief that the New Testament Covenant supersedes the Mosaic covenant of the Hebrew Bible, and that the Christian Church has displaced Israel as God's chosen people. In this dialogue held on April 25th, 2017 at Providence College, Rabbi David Novak (University of Toronto) and Fr. Thomas Joseph White OP( The Angelicum)engage in a thoughtful, and robust conversation about their...

This talk was given by Fr. Dominic Legge when he addressed St. Peter's parish on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. on Oct. 16, 2018. For more information on our other upcoming events, visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org/events

This talk was given on Oct. 2nd, 2018 to the Napa Institute Conference. Visit our website for more information on upcoming events: thomisticinstitute.org/events

There is an abundance of literature discussing the validity of St. Thomas Aquinas' arguments for God's existence. Using a different approach, this lecture takes these arguments as a springboard for interrogating the atheist position(s): What are the problems in asserting the world to be uncaused, or in denying the existence of a necessary being? This lecture was delivered by Fr. Conor McDonough, O...

This lecture was offered at Williams College on September 19th, 2018 by Professor Gloria Frost. About the speaker: Gloria Frost is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. Her areas of research are medieval philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and the history of science. She is an assistant editor for the American Catholic Philosophical Quar...

This Panel Discussion concluded our conference which was held on Sept. 22nd, 2018 at Yale. The four previous talks brought together academics from diverse disciplines to discuss the meaning and evolution of the Christian idea of freedom. Lecturers considered the theme from the perspective of Augustine, Origen, Ambrose, Dante, Thomas Aquinas, Nicolas of Cusa, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Servais Pinckaer...

This lecture was given for our conference on "Christianity and Freedom." It was held on Sept. 22nd, 2018 at Yale and brought together academics from diverse disciplines to discuss the meaning and evolution of the Christian idea of freedom. Lecturers considered the theme from the perspective of Augustine, Origen, Ambrose, Dante, Thomas Aquinas, Nicolas of Cusa, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Servais Pincka...

This lecture was given for our conference on "Christianity and Freedom." It was held on Sept. 22nd, 2018 at Yale and brought together academics from diverse disciplines to discuss the meaning and evolution of the Christian idea of freedom. Lecturers considered the theme from the perspective of Augustine, Origen, Ambrose, Dante, Thomas Aquinas, Nicolas of Cusa, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Servais Pincka...

This lecture was the first one given for our conference on "Christianity and Freedom." It was held on Sept. 22nd, 2018 at Yale and brought together academics from diverse disciplines to discuss the meaning and evolution of the Christian idea of freedom. Lecturers considered the theme from the perspective of Augustine, Origen, Ambrose, Dante, Thomas Aquinas, Nicolas of Cusa, Gerard Manley Hopkins,...

This lecture was the first one given for our conference on "Christianity and Freedom." It was held on Sept. 22nd, 2018 at Yale and brought together academics from diverse disciplines to discuss the meaning and evolution of the Christian idea of freedom. Lecturers considered the theme from the perspective of Augustine, Origen, Ambrose, Dante, Thomas Aquinas, Nicolas of Cusa, Gerard Manley Hopkins,...

Fyodor Dostoevsky’s last and greatest novel, The Brothers Karamazov, explores the question of God’s existence against the backdrop of suffering and betrayal within a troubled family. The genius of Dostoevsky is to have grasped that there can be no love for human beings without a love for God — and conversely, there can be no belief in God without a deep and profound love for mankind. In this lectu...

In this lecture, Francis Beckwith discusses the question, "is belief in God rational?" This lecture was delivered by Francis Beckwith (Baylor University) on September 19, 2018 to the Thomistic Institute's University of Arizona chapter. To learn about upcoming Thomistic Institute events, visit thomisticinstitute.org/events/

A lecture given during "Friendly Rivals: Franciscan and Dominican Intellectual Traditions" a Thomistic Circles conference at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. Sept. 28-29, 2018. For more upcoming Thomistic Institute events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

The full title of this lecture is: "Aquinas and Olivi on Job: A Franciscan-Dominican Dispute on Suffering, perfection, and Exegesis" This lecture was given on Sept. 28, 2018 to begin the Thomistic Circles conference "Friendly Rivals: Franciscan and Dominican Intellectual Traditions" in Washington, DC. Hand out available here: tinyurl.com/y8n8orkf

A lecture given during "Friendly Rivals: Franciscan and Dominican Intellectual Traditions" a Thomistic Circles conference at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. Sept. 28-29, 2018. The hand out for this lecture is available here: tinyurl.com/ybo2qjxb

This lecture was given on Sept. 28, 2018 to begin the Thomistic Circles conference "Friendly Rivals: Franciscan and Dominican Intellectual Traditions" in Washington, DC. Handout available here: static1.squarespace.com/static/580e5b…Univocity.pdf

This talk was offered on Sept. 28,2018 to begin the Thomistic Circle "Friendly Rivals: Franciscan and Dominican Intellectual Traditions. " To learn more about upcoming Thomistic Institute events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events

This lecture was delivered by V. Bradley Lewis(Catholic University of America) to the UC Berkeley chapter of the Thomistic Institute on September 18th, 2018. V. Bradley Lewis is associate professor in the School of Philosophy in the Catholic University of America. He specializes in political and legal philosophy, especially that of the classical Greeks and in the Thomistic tradition, and is curren...

This lecture was delivered by Chad Pecknold (Catholic University of America) to the MIT chapter of the Thomistic Institute on September 18, 2018. To learn about upcoming Thomistic Institute events visit thomisticinstitute.org/events/

Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, O.P., completed his Bachelor’s Degree (B.S.E.) in Bioengineering, summa cum laude, at the University of Pennsylvania, and then earned his Ph. D. in Biology from M.I.T. in the laboratory of Professor Leonard Guarente, where he was a fellow of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI). He was ordained a priest in the Order of Preachers in May of 2004. He completed his Pontifi...

This lecture was offered as part of our "Wisdom of Aquinas" series held at NYU on September 22, 2018. The link to the handout can be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/12a3xy…/edit?usp=sharing For upcoming Thomistic Insitute events visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events

This lecture was offered as part of our "Wisdom of Aquinas" series held at NYU on September 22, 2018. The link to the handout can be found here: drive.google.com/file/d/0ByaUbskx…view?usp=sharing

In this lecture, Professor Christopher Kaczor (Loyola Marymount University) draws on insights from Aristotle, Aquinas, and contemporary psychology to understand how to make good friendships and avoid bad ones. This lecture was given to the Baylor University chapter of the Thomistic Institute on September 6, 2018. View upcoming Thomistic Institute events at: thomisticinstitute.org/events.

What is happiness, and what is the best and happiest life a human being can live? Or even more directly and personally, what kind of life ought I to be living or ought I to be aiming for? In this lecture, Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception and the Thomistic Institute) draws on wisdom from St. Thomas Aquinas and the classical tradition to answer these fundament...