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.

Quarantine Livestream Lectures

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This lecture was given by Professor Thomas Hibbs of Baylor University as part of the Art of the Beautiful series, co-sponsored by The Catholic Artists Society and the Thomistic Institute. Thank you to our hosts at the Catholic Center at NYU. Saturday, December 6, 2014

Professor Thomas Hibbs: "Maritain and Modernity", December 2014

Bishop Robert Barron and William Lane Craig joined around 20 scholars and academics for a symposium at Claremont McKenna College on January 13, 2018. The symposium was hosted by the Claremont Center for Reason, Religion, and Public Affairs and featured two sessions. In the first session, Bishop Barron spoke on the divine simplicity. In this second session, William Lane Craig spoke on the atonement. Both presentations were followed by roundtable discussion among the attendees.

Bishop Barron + William Lane Craig - Symposium Part 2 - Atonement

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 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.

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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.

Born Broken? Aquinas On Original Sin | Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.

This lecture was presented by the campus chapter of the Thomistic Institute at the University of Arizona on February 27, 2020.

Prof. Francis J. Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy and 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).

Who Am I to Judge? Politics and the Problem of Moral Relativism | Prof. Francis Beckwith

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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The Nature of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Nature | Fr. Brian Chrzastek, 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.

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Aquinas on the Blessed Mother | Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P.

This lecture was given at Oxford University on February 19, 2020.

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Prof. John Lennox studied at the Royal School Armagh, Northern Ireland and was Exhibitioner and Senior Scholar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge University from which he took his MA, MMath and PhD. He worked for many years in the Mathematics Institute at the University of Wales in Cardiff which awarded him a DSc for his research. He also holds an MA and DPhil from Oxford University (by incorporation) and an MA in Bioethics from the University of Surrey. He was a Senior Alexander Von Humboldt Fellow at the Universities of Würzburg and Freiburg in Germany.

Can Science Explain Everything? | Prof. John Lennox

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 Queen's University on February 5, 2020.

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Professor Raymond Hain is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Providence College and Associate Director of the Providence College Humanities Program. He received his BA in Philosophy from Christendom College and his MA and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, where he studied under Ralph McInerny and David Solomon. He works primarily in moral philosophy in the Thomistic tradition, as well as topics in applied ethics (especially bioethics and the ethics of architecture) and connections between philosophy and literature. As part of the Humanities Program, he directs the Providence College Humanities Forum and the Providence College Humanities Reading Seminars.

The Catholic Imagination in JRR Tolkien and Flannery O'Connor | Prof. Raymond Hain

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 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.

Speaker bio:

Fr Richard teaches scripture and New Testament Greek in the Studium. He is the Dean of Degrees at the Hall: he presents students at University matriculation and graduation ceremonies. From Michaelmas 2018, Fr Richard will be teaching The Letter to the Hebrews for the University in the Theology and Religious Studies Faculty.

Fr Richard studied theology at Oxford at both undergraduate and graduate level; he studied history at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the Provincial Bursar of the English Dominicans.

What Happened to the Second Coming? | Fr. Richard Ounsworth, O. P.

This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute's intellectual retreat, "Virtuous Autonomy: Freedom and Independence in a Technological Age," August 7 - 10, 2020.

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Speaker bio:
Dr. James Madden is Professor of Philosophy at Benedictine College. He lives in Atchison, Kansas with his wife (Jennifer) and their six children. He is originally from Wisconsin, where he received a B.A. from St. Norbert College, and did his graduate work at Kent State (MA, 1998) and Purdue (Ph.D., 2002). He was awarded the Benedictine College Distinguished Educator of the Year Award in 2006.  Prof. Madden's long term research interests are modern philosophy, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of mind.

True Freedom and Its Counterfeits | Prof. James Madden

This talk was given on September 26, 2020 as part of the Thomistic Institute's East Coast Intellectual Retreat.

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About the Speaker:
Fr. Isaac Morales, O.P. entered the Dominican novitiate for the Province of St. Joseph in the summer of 2012. Before joining the order, Fr. Isaac received a BSE in civil engineering from Duke University, an MTS with a concentration in biblical studies from the University of Notre Dame, and a PhD in New Testament from Duke University. After completing his PhD, he taught in the department of theology at Marquette University for four years. During the academic year 2011/12, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich. Fr. was ordained to the priesthood in May of 2018.

We Shall Be Like Him: Contemplation as Deification | Fr. Isaac Morales, O.P.

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The Nature of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Nature | Fr. Brian Chrzastek, O.P.

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