This lecture was delivered for the Student Leadership Conference on 7/2/2021.

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About the Speaker:
Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. is the Director of the Thomistic Institute at the Angelicum. He did his doctoral studies at Oxford University, and has research interests in metaphysics, Christology, Trinitarian theology, and the theology of grace. His books include The Incarnate Lord, A Thomistic Study in Christology (2015) and The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism (2017). He is co-editor of the academic journal Nova et Vetera and in 2011 was appointed an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. In 2019 Fr. White was named a McDonald Agape Foundation Distinguished Scholar.

What Is Christian Grace? Aquinas On Grace and Theological Virtues | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.

This lecture was given on December 7, 2021 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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About the speaker:
Gregory T. Doolan received his B.A. in political theory from Georgetown University in 1993 and his Ph.D. in philosophy from The Catholic University of America in 2003. He taught philosophy at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. from 2004–05 and joined the faculty of the School of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America in 2005. Dr. Doolan’s research interest is in the area of Aquinas’s metaphysics; in recent years, his focus has been on Aquinas’s account of the Aristotelian categories of being. A native of Philadelphia, Dr. Doolan currently lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and three children.

Why Should We Believe God Exists? | Prof. Gregory Doolan

This talk was given at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. as part of the intellectual retreat, "Grace," offered for students and young professionals in the Washington, D.C. area, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 2022.

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About the speaker:
Father Andrew Hofer, O.P., grew up as the youngest of ten children on a Kansas farm. He entered the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 1995 and professed simple vows the following year. He made his profession of solemn vows in the Great Jubilee Year of 2000, and was ordained a deacon in 2001 and a priest in 2002.

His assignments have included serving as a parochial vicar in Rhode Island, a missionary in Kenya, a doctoral student at the University of Notre Dame, a formator at the Dominican House of Studies, and a member of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception. He is finishing a book titled The Word in Our Flesh: A Return to Patristic Preaching, whose research the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship funded through its Teacher-Scholar Grant.

The Hiddenness of Grace for St. Thomas Aquinas & St. Thérèse of Lisieux | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.

Overcoming The Science And Religion Divide | Prof. Karin Oberg

This lecture was given on October 10th, 2023, at Regent University.

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Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. is a doctoral student in Christology at the University of Fribourg. He serves as the Assistant Director for Campus Outreach with the Thomistic Institute in Washington, DC. Prior to the TI, he was 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 attended the Franciscan University of Steubenville, studying mathematics and humanities. Upon graduating, he entered the Order of Preachers in 2010. He was ordained a priest in 2016 and holds an STL from the Dominican House of Studies.

Is Lying Always Wrong? | Fr. Gregory Pine O.P.

This lecture was given on February 23rd, 2024, at Trinity College Dublin.

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Fr. Ezra Sullivan is a Dominican friar of the Province of St. Joseph. He currently serves as professor of theology and psychology at the Angelicum in Rome. He has published numerous articles and contributed to many books on subjects related to Thomistic ethics.

Christ vs. Secularism: The Ethics of the Day | Fr. Ezra Sullivan, O.P.

This lecture was given on January  16th, 2024, at the University of St. Andrews.
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Fr. Conor McDonough, O.P. teaches theology at the Dominican House of Studies, Dublin. He studied science and theology at Cambridge University, and recently completed postgraduate studies in theology at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland)

Aquinas, Calvin, and the Cross of Christ | Fr. Conor McDonough, O.P.

This lecture was given on February 3rd, 2024, at the Dominican House of Studies.
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Prof. Michael Root (Catholic University of America) is formerly Ordinary Professor of Systematic Theology at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC.  Root is a native of Norfolk, Virginia and studied at Dartmouth College (B.A.) and Yale University (Ph.D. in theology).  He was received into the Catholic Church in August, 2010.  His particular theological interests are ecumenical relations, eschatology/last things, and grace and justification.  Root has been a member of the US and international LutheranCatholic dialogues, the US LutheranUnited Methodist dialogue, the AnglicanLutheran International Working Group, and the Anglican Lutheran International Commission.  He served on the drafting teams that produced the Lutheran-Roman Catholic Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.

Justified by Grace, but What is Grace and What does it do? | Prof. Michael Root

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Mirror For the Past, Window to the Future

Mirror For the Past, Window to The Future

This talk was given by Dr. Gloria Frost at Columbia University on February 19th, 2018.

Does God Exist? Aquinas's Proof of God Based on Motion | Prof. Gloria Frost

This lecture was given at the University of Oklahoma on February 6, 2020.

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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 Abortion Choice (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Politics For Christians: Statecraft As Soulcraft (IVP, 2010), and Taking Rites Seriously: Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith (Cambridge University Press, 2015), winner of the American Academy of Religion's prestigious 2016 Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Constructive-Reflective Studies. He is a graduate of the Washington University School of Law, St. Louis (MJS) as well as Fordham University (PhD, MA, philosophy).

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