Beginning with the coronavirus lockdowns, the Thomistic Institute has been regularly broadcasting lectures and conversations from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. through YouTube, Zoom, and Facebook. These lectures last about 40 minutes followed by 20 minutes of live Q&A with the online audience. 

Some of the most popular videos include “Plagues: What We Can Learn from the Bible” by Fr. Anthony Giambrone, O.P., “Angels and Demons,” a conversation with Fr. Basil Cole, O.P., and “Hillbilly Thomism: Flannery O’Connor’s Vision of Grace” with Prof. Jennifer Frey. Other lectures explore many more themes of philosophy, theology, and literature.

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This talk was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the Thomistic Institute's Quarantine Lecture series. 

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Speaker bio: Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

Fr. Dominic Legge is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and an assistant professor in systematic theology at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. He holds a JD from Yale Law School, a PhL from the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001 and was ordained a priest in 2007. He practiced law for several years as a trial attorney for the US Department of Justice before becoming a Dominican. He is the author of The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Grace and Anxiety: Spiritual Growth in a Time of Turmoil | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

This talk was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., as part of the Thomistic Institute's Quarantine Lecture series.

For more information on the Quarantine Lectures and to subscribe, visit us online: thomisticinstitute.org/quarantine-lectures.

Plagues: What We Can Learn from the Bible | Fr. Anthony Giambrone, O.P.

The Presence of God in a Season of Solitude | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

What is Health for the Soul? A Conversation with Fr. John Corbett, O.P.

Is the Coronavirus a Punishment from God? | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute's Quarantine Lecture series. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org.

About the Speaker:
Dr. LaNave was born and raised in St. Cloud, Minnesota, but has lived in the Washington, D.C. area since 1991, when he came to Catholic University to begin a doctoral program in theology. After stints in publishing at the New Catholic Encyclopedia and The Catholic University of America Press, he joined the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception as a full-time faculty member in 2006, and was promoted to full professor in 2014. His special expertise is medieval theology and fundamental theology. He is the author of Through Holiness to Wisdom: The Nature of Theology according to St. Bonaventure (Rome: Istituto storico dei cappuccini, 2005), and scholarly articles on Bonaventure and/or Aquinas in Theological Studies, Franciscan Studies, and The Thomist, as well as essays on “Bonaventure on the Spiritual Senses,” in The Perception of God: The Spiritual Senses in the Christian Tradition (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012) and “Bonaventure’s Theological Method,” in A Companion to Bonaventure (Brill, 2013). Since 1996 he has served the Pontifical Faculty as managing editor of The Thomist, the quarterly journal of philosophy and theology published by the Dominican Fathers, and is the series Editor for The Fathers of the Church: Mediaeval Continuation, published by CUA Press. He is working on a book on the relationship between theology and holiness.

Reading Bonaventure in a Time Of Crisis | Prof. Gregory LaNave

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Reading Bonaventure in a Time Of Crisis | Prof. Gregory LaNave

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