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View Prof. Bogardus' slides here: https://tinyurl.com/yer9hxmu

This lecture was given on February 22, 2022 at the University of Arizona.

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About the speaker:
Tomás Bogardus is associate professor of philosophy at Pepperdine University. He was born in Long Beach, California, and earned his BS in biology at UC San Diego, his MA in philosophy at Biola University, and his PhD in philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. He works mainly in metaphysics and epistemology and is most interested in the mind-body problem and the rationality of religious belief.

Are We Just Accidents? Evolution in the Light of Faith | Prof. Tomás Bogardus

A lecture on March 7, 2016 at Duke University.

God after Darwin: Are Christianity and Evolution Compatible? | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP

A lecture at George Mason University on November 7, 2017.

God After Darwin: Are Christianity and Evolution Compatible? | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP

This lecture was given on March 1, 2018 to the Yale Law School Chapter of the Thomistic Institute.

The handout for this talk can be found here: https://goo.gl/F3d2Hu

On the Christian Moral Revolution |  Remi Brague

The 1st of 3 lectures in a series of talks from Fr. Thomas Joseph White OP.

Introduction to Metaphysics Part One: Form and Matter; Substance and Accidents | White, OP

This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute Conference "The Spiritual Soul and Contemporary Neuroscience" held at the Angelicum in Rome on 1 December 2018.  Dr. Feser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College, and has also been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University. He received a PhD in philosophy from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the author of multiple books, including Philosophy of Mind (A Beginner's Guide), The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism, Aquinas (A Beginner's Guide), Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, Neo-Scholastic Essays, and Five Proofs for the Existence of God.

The Immateriality Of The Mind | Edward Feser

Dr. Andrew Davison is an Anglican canon of St Albans Cathedral in the UK.  He is is the Starbridge Lecturer in Theology and Natural Sciences at Cambridge.  Before he moved into theology he was a scientist, and he holds undergraduate degrees and doctorates in both natural science (Merton College, Oxford) and theology (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge). Andrew taught Christian doctrine at Oxford and Cambridge before his current appointment.  This talk explorates points of contact between Thomistic thought and modern science and evolutionary theory, and was presented as part of the Thomistic Institute Conference "The Spiritual Soul and Contemporary Neuroscience: A Thomistic Perspective" held at the Angelicum University.

Aquinas and Modern Evolutionary Theory: An Inquiry |Andrew Davison

This talk was offered on February 15th, 2019. For more info about upcoming TI events in North America check out, https://thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/
For events in Europe, visit: https://angelicum.it/thomistic-institute/thomistic-events/

Speaker Bio:
Thomas Joseph White, O.P., entered the Order of Preachers in 2003. His research and teaching have focused particularly on topics related to Thomistic metaphysics and Christology as well as Roman Catholic-Reformed ecumenical dialogue.

He is the author of Wisdom in the Face of Modernity: A Study in Thomistic Natural Theology (Sapientia Press, 2009), The Incarnate Lord: A Thomistic Study in Christology (The Catholic University of America Press, 2015), Exodus (Brazos Press, 2016), and The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism (The Catholic University of America Press, 2017). He has edited several books, and is co-editor of the theological journal Nova et Vetera (English edition). In 2011 he was appointed an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. He is currently teaching at the Angelicum in Rome and is the Director of the Thomistic Institute at the Angelcum.

The Pursuit of Profound Rest: Friendship, Contemplation, and Work | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP

This talk was offered for as part of our Thomistic Circle on "On Sacrifice and the Virtue of Religion" held at DHS on March 1st & 2nd, 2019.

This featured Prof. Reinhard Huetter (The Catholic University of America), Fr. Dominic Langevin, OP (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception), Prof. Gary Anderson (University of Notre Dame), and Fr. David Meconi, SJ (St. Louis University).

The Virtue of Religion in Aquinas - What it is and Why it Matters | Prof. Reinhard Huetter

This lecture was given at our chapter at Texas A&M University on February 25, 2019.

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Speaker Bio: 
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 Quarterly and on the executive councils for the American Catholic Philosophical Association and the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy. She is married to Jake Frost, author of "Catholic Dad" and the "Happy Jar," and they have four children.

Evil and the Goodness of God: Aquinas on the Problem of Evil | Prof. Gloria Frost

This lecture was given for our chapter at Harvard University on march 7th, 2019. 

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About the speaker: 
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.

Aquinas vs. Freud: The Problem of Unconscious Motivation | Prof. Therese Cory

This lecture was given by Prof. Gaven Kerr at University College Dublin's Newman Building on 19 September 2019.

About the Speaker:
Gaven Kerr is a married father of three and a third order Dominican. He has degrees in scholastic philosophy and philosophy from Queen’s University Belfast: BA, MPhil, and PhD. His doctoral research was on the thought of Thomas Aquinas and Immanuel Kant. Gaven currently teaches theology at Mary Immaculate College Limerick.

For more information on this and other events, go to https://thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

God, Evolution, and the Big Bang: The Theology of Creation according to Aquinas | Prof. Gaven Kerr

This talk was given at the University College Dublin on February 25, 2020.

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Fr. Terence Crotty, OP, is a doctor of Biblical Theology and is Student Master of the Irish Dominican Province.

Is the Bible True and Accurate? | Fr. Terence Crotty

This lecture was given at Oxford University on February 5, 2020.

The power point presentation for this lecture can be accessed here: https://tinyurl.com/y39la8ja

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Fr. Mariusz Tabaczek, O.P., is a Polish Dominican theologian. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophical theology from the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA and Church Licentiate from the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland. He currently works as a professor of theology at the Angelicum in Rome, and as a researcher for the Angelicum Thomistic Institute.

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

This lecture was given as part of the Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship, June 15 through 18, 2020.

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Prof. Bradley Lewis is an associate professor of philosophy at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He specializes in political and legal philosophy. He has written articles on the political thought of Plato and Aristotle and on some figures in the neo-Thomist tradition, as well as on the topics of public reason and religious freedom.

Christian Theology and the Limits of Politics in Augustine | Prof. Bradley Lewis

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

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