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This lecture was given to Mississippi State University on March 5, 2021. 

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About the speaker:
Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel is a member of the St. Cecilia Congregation of Dominican Sisters of Nashville, Tennessee. She received her Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, Italy. She has been active in her religious community's teaching apostolate for over fifteen years and has assisted with the theological formation of the newest members of her religious congregation. In addition to contributing articles to a number of journals and magazines, including the Vatican newspaper (L'Osservatore Romano), The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, The Linacre Quarterly, and the Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings, Sister has served as editor-in-chief of her Congregation's book, Praying as a Family (also available in Spanish, Chinese, and Arabic versions). With EWTN, she directed a television series of the same title. She has also served as the creator and founding Director of the University of Dallas Studies in Catholic Faith & Culture Program.

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

This lecture was given to Auburn University on February 24, 2021.

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About the speaker:
Joshua Hochschild is the Monsignor Robert R. Kline Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University, where he also served six years as the inaugural Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. His primary research is in medieval logic, metaphysics, and ethics, with broad interest in liberal education and the continuing relevance of the Catholic intellectual tradition. He is the author of The Semantics of Analogy: Rereading Cajetan’s De Nominum Analogia (2010), translator of Claude Panaccio’s Mental Language: From Plato to William of Ockham (2017), and co-author of A Mind at Peace: Reclaiming an Ordered Soul in the Age of Distraction (2017). His writing has appeared in First Things, Commonweal, Modern Age and the Wall Street Journal. For 2020-21 he’s been elected to serve as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

Is Free Will an Illusion? | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

This lecture was given to the University of South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina on February 24, 2021. 

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About the speaker:
Stephen L. Brock is a priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei (ordained 1992). He is Ordinary Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, where he has taught since 1990. He received a BA from the University of Chicago and a PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto. In 1999 he was a visiting professor in the School of Philosophy of The Catholic University of America. In 2017 he is a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago, collaborating in the Templeton Foundation project “Virtue, Happiness, and Meaning in Life,” directed by Candace Vogler and Jennifer Frey; his collaboration has included teaching a course in the Philosophy Department at the University of Chicago, giving two public lectures, directing a reading group, and leading sessions in a summer seminar for graduate students. Since 2008 he has been an Ordinary Member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. He is the author of Action & Conduct: Thomas Aquinas and the Theory of Action (T&T Clark, 1998); articles on various aspects of Aquinas’s thought; and most recently, The Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas: A Sketch (Wipf & Stock, 2015).

Is Free Will an Illusion? | Fr. Stephen Brock

This lecture was given to the University of Texas at El Paso on March 10, 2021. 

For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org

About the speaker:
Joshua Hochschild is the Monsignor Robert R. Kline Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University, where he also served six years as the inaugural Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. His primary research is in medieval logic, metaphysics, and ethics, with broad interest in liberal education and the continuing relevance of the Catholic intellectual tradition. He is the author of The Semantics of Analogy: Rereading Cajetan’s De Nominum Analogia (2010), translator of Claude Panaccio’s Mental Language: From Plato to William of Ockham (2017), and co-author of A Mind at Peace: Reclaiming an Ordered Soul in the Age of Distraction (2017). His writing has appeared in First Things, Commonweal, Modern Age and the Wall Street Journal. For 2020-21 he’s been elected to serve as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

Proofs for God's Existence: Aquinas on Reason, Uncertainty, and Faith | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

Catholic Environmentalism: From St. Augustine to Pope Francis | Prof. Marie George

A lecture on October 10, 2017 at Columbia University.

How True is the Bible? Reading the Bible Intelligently and Faithfully | Fr. Joseph Koterski, SJ

The Moral Use of Money: Reflections on Profit, Business, and Prosperity | Prof. Joseph Capizzi

A lecture delivered at Brown University on 11/9/17

Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Problem of Unjust Laws | Fr. Dominic Legge, OP

Guilt and Forgiveness | Prof. Eleonore Stump

This lecture was given October 12th, 2017 at the University of Maryland.

How To Not Ask About "The Meaning of Life" | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

This lecture was given during a conference on Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers at Ave Maria University, that was held January 26-27, 2018, entitled: "What is Beauty? Is God Beautiful?" This event was hosted by the Aquinas Center and the Thomistic Institute.

What Is Beauty? Is God Beautiful? | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP

This lecture was given by Dr. Jessica Murdoch (Villanova) at Brown University on October 16th, 2017.

On Grace and Salvation: What Can We Hope For? | Prof. Jessica Murdoch

This talk, which offers a philosophical look at our quest for happiness, was offered by Dr. Candace Vogler at Tulane on September 18th, 2017.

Hollow Pursuits, Fulfilling Pursuits and Ultimate Satisfaction | Prof. Candace Vogler

A lecture given on February 3, 2018 at the Catholic Center at NYU.

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How to Talk to People about God: Talking to Others | Fr. Raymund Snyder, OP

This lecture was given to the Chapter of the Thomistic Institute at the University of Virginia on November, 13, 2017 by Dr. John Cuddeback (Christendom College, Front Royal, VA).

Christian Friendship: The Role of Human Friendship in the Spiritual Life | Prof. John Cuddeback

This lecture was offered February 9th, 2018 at Vanderbilt Medical School.

What is the Soul, and When Does It Come To Be? | Prof. James Madden

The full title of this lecture is: "The Middle Ages: Dark Ages of Superstitious Backwardness, Golden Age of Catholic Harmony, or Neither?" It was delivered by Dr. Brad Gregory of the University of Notre Dame on March 1st for the Tulane chapter of the Thomistic Institute.

The Middle Ages: Dark Ages of Backwardness, Age of Catholic Harmony, or Neither? | Dr. Brad Gregory

A lecture given at NYU at "The Catholic Intellectual & the Challenge of the Contemporary University" - a conference on April 20-21, 2018.

The Dying of the Dark: The Death and Rebirth of the Catholic University | Prof. Patrick Deneen

The University and Its Counterfeit: Newman's Litmus Test | Prof. Reinhard Huetter

This talk was offered by Fr. Thomas Davenport on June 6th, 2018 as part of the Thomistic Institute's Symposium on "Thomistic Philosophy and Modern Science"

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