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

This lecture was offered on October 7, 2017 at an Intellectual Retreat in Connecticut.

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The Antidote to Death: the Eucharist & Re-Creation | 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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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.

Angels and Demons | Fr. Basil Cole, O.P.

Born Broken? Aquinas On Original Sin | Fr. Gregory Pine, 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 talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute's Holy Week Retreat, April 9-12, 2020. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org.

About the speaker:
Fr. Jacob Bertrand Janczyk was ordained to the priesthood in May 2017. He is a graduate of Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY, where he earned a degree in biomedical sciences.

The Descent into Hell | Fr. Jacob Bertrand Janczyk, O.P.

This lecture was given at Stanford University on November 18, 2019.

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Fr. Bernhard is professor of theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome and associate director of its Thomistic Institute. He did his doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, under the direction of Gilles Emery. He has published The Mystery of Union with God: Dionysian Mysticism in Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas (CUA Press, 2015). He is completing a textbook on the Eucharist. His other research interests include medieval Dominican mystical theologies, the function of metaphysics in theology, the grace/nature relation, the notion of revelation, the development of doctrine and the charisms.

Aquinas on Mystical Union with God | Fr. Bernhard Blankenhorn

Summer Conference

Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., is the Director of the Thomistic Institute at the Angelicum and Professor of Theology. He did his doctoral studies at Oxford University. He 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. His books include 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 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.

Happiness according to Aquinas | Thomas Joseph White, O.P.

Homily on the Holy Trinity

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:
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.

God in St. Augustine's Confessions | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.

This lecture was given for our chapter at Cornell University on September 23rd, 2020.

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About the speaker:

Jennifer A. Frey (University of South Carolina) received her BA from Indiana University in Bloomington Indiana in 2000, and her PhD at the University of Pittsburgh in 2012. In 2013 she was Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago prior to taking up her current appointment as Assistant Professor in the Philosophy department at the University of South Carolina. Jennifer's research interests lie at the intersection of virtue ethics and action theory. She has publications in The Journal of the History of Philosophy, The Journal of Analytic Philosophy, and in several edited volumes.  She is the recipient of several grants, including coa 2.1 million dollar project awarded by the John Templeton Foundation, titled "Virtue, Happiness, and Meaning in Life." She is currently at work on three separate book projects.

Friendship and Happiness: Insights from Aristotle and Aquinas | Prof. Jennifer Frey

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

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