The Thomistic Institute

Making Sense of the Atonement | Prof. Ross McCullough

15 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given at the University of Oregon on March 15, 2023. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Ros...

Thomistic Philosophy as a Remedy for Today's Crisis of Faith | Prof. Francis Beckwith

12 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on March 28th, 2023 at Regent University. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Francis...

The Error of Beginnings and the Beginning of Errors: Cosmology and Creation | Prof. Warren Carroll

10 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on March 23, 2023 at the University of Dallas. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Dr...

Why is Creation So Central in Early Christian Teaching? | Prof. Lewis Ayres

08 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on March 6th, 2023 at Oxford University. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Lewis Ay...

The Influence of Virgil and St. Augustine on Brideshead Revisited | Prof. Patrick Callahan

05 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on April 27th, 2023 at Georgetown University. The slides for the lecture can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/yus8cvkx For mor...

Overcoming the Science and Religion Divide | Dr. Karin Oberg

04 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on March 3rd, 2023 at New York University. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Karin Ö...

Death and Immortality | Sr. Elinor Gardner, O.P.

28 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on February 8, 2023 at Trinity University, San Antonio. The handout for this lecture can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/yc...

Classical and Contemporary Answers to the Meaning of Life | Prof. Michael Gorman

26 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on February 7th, 2023 at Texas A and M University. For more information please visit thomisticinstitue.org. About the speaker:...

Are We Our Brains? Neuroscience And The Soul | Doctor Paul LaPenna

24 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on February 23, 2023 at the University of South Carolina. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the s...

Why the Roman Catholic Church? w/ Prof. Paige Hochschild (Off-Campus Conversations)

20 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Prof. Paige Hochschild. Why the ...

Peace in the Lives of Gregory of Nazianzus and Augustine of Hippo | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.

19 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on February 16th, 2023 at the University of Texas at Austin. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About th...

A Thomistic Approach to Friendship Between the Sexes| Prof. John Cuddeback

17 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on February 21st, 2023 at Hillsdale College. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Joh...

Spirit, Soul, and Body According to Thomas Aquinas | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

14 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on February 18th, 2023 at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute...

Descartes and 'The Aristotelians' on the Soul as the Life of the Body | Prof. Sarah Byers

12 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on Feburary 18th 2023, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. For more information please visit thomisticinstitut...

Descartes's Soul | Prof. Jorge Secada

10 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on February 17th, 2023 at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute...

The Ethics of Human Gene Editing with CRISPR | Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, O.P.

07 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on October 5th, 2022 at Dartmouth College. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. N...

St. Thomas's Five Ways: How to Prove God Exists w/ Dr. Edward Feser(Off-Campus Conversations)

06 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Dr. Edward Feser. St. Thomas's F...

Proofs for the Existence of God | Prof. Robert Koons

05 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on Feburary 7th, 2023 at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org....

Aquinas on the Union of Body and Soul | Prof. Gyula Klima

01 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on February 1st, 2023 at Fordham University. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Born, ...

St. Edmund Campion and the Jesuit English Mission of 1580 | Prof. Fionnuala O'Neill Tonning

31 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on November 21, 2022, at the University of Edinburgh. For more information, please visit our website at thomisticinstitute.org...

The Search for Happiness: Wisdom from Aquinas | Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau. O.P.

29 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on February 4th, 2023 at the University of Rochester. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the spea...

Does God Exist? | Prof. Michael Gorman

29 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on February 17, 2023 at Vanderbilt University. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: M...

Does God Create Through Evolution? | Fr. Mariusz Tabaczek, O.P.

27 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on February 16th, 2023 at Trinity College Dublin. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: ...

The God of the Bible and the God of the Philosophers | Prof. Eleonore Stump

27 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given via Zoom to the students at Trinity Western University on February, 9th 2023. For more information please visit thomisticinstitu...

Aquinas’s ‘First Way’ Argument: In What Way Does it Prove God’s Existence? | Prof. Gregory Doolan

24 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given at the United State Military Academy at West Point on February 7th, 2023. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.or...

Adam and Eve after the Pill, Revisited w/ Mary Eberstadt (Off-Campus Conversations)

23 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Mary Eberstadt about her latest b...

God, Creation, and the Act of Existence | Prof. Gaven Kerr

22 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on February 6th, 2023 at Oxford University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at thomisticinstitu...

Can a Catholic Be a Classical Liberal? | Prof. Erik Dempsey

20 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The handout for this lecture may be found here: https://tinyurl.com/5f2ebxm5 This lecture was given on February 2, 2023, at the University of Kansas....

Fire in the Head: Paganism in Irish Christianity | Fr. Conor McDonough, O.P.

17 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The handout for the lecture may be found here: https://tinyurl.com/3fd6hsvh This lecture was given on January 26, 2023, at Trinity College Dublin. F...

The Problem of Evil, Dystopia, and Dostoevsky's ‘The Brothers Karamazov' | Prof. Stephen Meredith

16 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The speaker's handout may be found here: https://tinyurl.com/mry498c9 This lecture was given on February 15, 2023, at the University of Nebraska-Linc...

Neuroscience and Human Freedom | Prof. James Madden

15 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on February 2, 2023, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our...

Wrath and Love: Do the Old and New Testaments Have the Same God? | Prof. Paul Gondreau

14 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Paul Gondreau discusses the perceived dichotomy between the wrathful God of the Old Testament and the loving God of the New Testament, argui...

Humanity's Original State | Prof. Reinhard Hütter

13 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on January 27, 2023, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., for the annual Aquinas Lecture in honor of St. Thom...

The Spousal Meaning of the Body and Chastity in Christian States of Life | Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P.

10 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on January 28, 2023, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the intellectual retreat entitled, "Theolog...

Does Tradition 'Develop' Over Time? w/ Prof. Lewis Ayres (Off-Campus Conversations)

09 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Dr. Lewis Ayres about his latest ...

Theology of the Body vs. Gender Ideology | Prof. John Grabowski

08 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The speaker's powerpoint slides may be found here: https://tinyurl.com/4m7fr7ws This lecture was given on January 28, 2023, at the Dominican House of...

Theology of the Body: An Overview | Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P.

07 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on January 28, 2023, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the intellectual retreat entitled, "Theo...

Theology of the Body: Sources, Context & Genre | Prof. John Grabowski

06 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The speaker's powerpoint slides may be found here: https://tinyurl.com/2mwjyaup This lecture was given on January 27, 2023, at the Dominican House of...

Literature, St. Thomas, and the Sacraments | Fr. Albert Trudel, O.P.

03 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on November 7th, 2022, at Harvard University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomist...

Death, Resurrection, and Transformation in Christ | Fr. Jordan Schmidt, O.P.

02 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on December 3, 2022, at the Thomistic Institute's West Coast Intellectual Retreat entitled, "The Eschaton: An Intellectual Retr...

Raised to Life: St. Thomas on the Resurrection of the Dead | Fr. Bryan Kromholtz, O.P.

01 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on December 3, 2022, at St. Albert's Priory in Oakland, California. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our web...

Destruction and Transformation of the Cosmos in the Book of Revelation | Fr. Jordan Schmidt, O.P.

28 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on December 2, 2022, at the Thomistic Institute's West Coast Intellectual Retreat entitled, "The Eschaton: An Intellectual Retr...

True Sacrifice: What We Do in the Mass | Prof. Bruce Marshall

27 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Marshall's handout can be found here: tinyurl.com/bdh86t7v This lecture was given on January 14, 2023, at the Dominican House of Studies in Was...

Who Do You Say That I Am? Liturgy and the Meaning of Life | Fr. Innocent Smith, O.P.

24 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. Smith's handout can be found here: tinyurl.com/3knfh8y5 This lecture was given on January 14, 2023, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washingt...

Does Neuroscience Disprove Free Will? w/ Prof. James Madden (Off-Campus Conversations)

23 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Dr. James Madden about his latest...

Meeting Christ in the Mass | Prof. Bruce Marshall

22 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Marshall's handout can be found here: tinyurl.com/ye2yupz7 This talk was given on January 14, 2023, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washin...

Let Us Pray: Naming God and Our Needs in the Prayers of the Mass | Fr. Innocent Smith, O.P.

21 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 Was...

Edith Stein and the Gestalt of the Feminine Soul | Prof. Catherine Pakaluk

20 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on January 12, 2023, at John Hopkins University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomist...

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

17 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 w...

The Biblical Vision of Wisdom and the Spiritual Life | Fr. Jordan Schmidt, O.P.

16 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on December 13, 2022 at Immaculate Conception Church, Washington, D.C. For more information on upcoming events, please visit ...

Modern Science and the Catholic Faith | Prof. Chris Baglow

15 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Predestination and Human Freedom: A Catholic Approach | Prof. W. Matthews Grant

14 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Why the Roman Catholic Church? | Prof. Paige Hochschild

13 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Professor Paige Hochschild discusses the necessity of the Roman Catholic Church, emphasizing its divine origin, the importance of community and unity,...

The Myth of Dante's Thomism? Reading Aquinas and Dante with the Dominicans | Prof. George Corbett

10 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 vi...

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

09 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 late...

'So Death doth touch the Resurrection': Death and Human Nature | Sr. Elinor Gardner, O.P.

08 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on November 17, 2022, at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our websi...

From Vices to Virtues to Gifts: Aquinas and Dante on Sanctification | Fr. Albert Trudel, O.P.

08 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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, "Aqu...

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

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 vi...

The Spiritual Geography of the Afterlife: Aquinas and Dante | Fr. Albert Trudel, O.P.

07 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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, "Aqu...

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

03 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on November 17, 2022, at Trinity College Dublin. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thom...

Does Neuroscience Disprove Free Will? | Prof. James Madden

02 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on November 10th, 2022, at the University of Rochester. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at ...

Suffering and the Narrative of Redemption | Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel, O.P.

01 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on November 9, 2022, at Hillsdale College. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomistici...

It's My Right: What Are Natural Rights and What Rights Do We Have? | Prof. Joseph Trabbic

31 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on November 9, 2022, at Regent University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomistici...

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

30 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 informa...

Made for Another: John Paul II's Theology of the Body and Thomas Aquinas | Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P.

27 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on December 5, 2022, at St. Charles Catholic Church in Arlington, Virginia. For more information on upcoming events, please vi...

Is It Possible to Have Productive Conversations About Abortion? w/ Prof. Angela Knobel

26 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 lates...

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

25 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on December 2, 2022, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our web...

Reason, Grace, and Law: Suarez and Hobbes on Coercion, Church, and State | Prof. Thomas Pink

24 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on October 27, 2022, at Harvard University. For more information, visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Professor ...

Justice and the Common Good According to St. Thomas Aquinas | Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P.

23 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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.tho...

Classical and Christian Perspectives on Love and Friendship | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

20 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 o...

Joyful Resistance | Dr. R.J. Snell

19 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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, "Avoidin...

Acedia II: Human Sorrow, Divine Mercy: An Exploration in Catholic Art | Prof. Thomas Hibbs

18 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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 Was...

Acedia I: How Our Sorrows Determine the State of Our Souls | Prof. Thomas Hibbs

17 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

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, "Avoidin...

Acedia and the Bleaching of Being | Dr. R.J. Snell

16 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on December 2, 2022, at the Dominican House of Studies as part of "Avoiding Acedia: An Intellectual Retreat." For more informatio...

Image and Likeness: Grace as a Participation in Divine Life | Fr. Reginald Lynch, O.P.

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on November 5, 2022, at the University of Oregon. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at thomistici...

'How to Inherit a Kingdom' w/ Prof. Russell Hittinger | Off-Campus Conversations, Ep. 013

13 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Dr. Russell Hittinger about his l...

The Image of God in the Writings of the Apostolic Fathers | Fr. Taras Khomych

11 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. Khomych's handout can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/mezrz8pr This talk was given on November 15th, 2022, at the University of Oxford. For m...

My Flesh Indeed: On the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist | Fr. Dominic Langevin, O.P.

09 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The handout for this lecture can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/mwpshtnw This lecture was given on November 10, 2022, at Fordham University. Fo...

Catholic Social Teaching: Toward a More Humane Economy | Prof. Andrew Abela

04 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on November 3, 2022, at Texas A&M University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at thomistici...

The Search for Happiness: Wisdom from Aquinas and the Classical Tradition | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

30 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This talk was given on November 4, 2022, at the University of Washington. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at thomis...

Religious Freedom & the American Founding w/ Prof. Phillip Muñoz | Off-Campus Conversations, Ep. 012

29 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Prof. Phillip Muñoz about his ne...

Woman: A Man-Made Artifact or a Divine Creation? | Dr. Michele M. Schumacher

28 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The podcast transcript discusses two contrasting views of feminism, one rooted in existentialist philosophy (e.g., Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beau...

Physician-Assisted Suicide: Ethical and Legal Dimensions | Prof. Joseph Marine, M.D.

26 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

WARNING: This talk includes some graphic anecdotes of physician-assisted suicide. Dr. Marine's slides may be accessed here: https://tinyurl.com/4aywf...