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A lecture on December 3, 2015 at Duke University.

Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP: "The Incarnate Lord: Controversies in Christology" in conversation with Professors Griffiths, Hauerwas and others.

The Incarnate Lord: Controversies in Christology | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP

Why Aquinas Matters: Thomism and the New Evangelization | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP

September 29, 2017 at Fall Thomistic Circles.

The Holy Spirit as Gift and the Communion of the Trinity | Fr. Gilles Emery, OP

September 30, 2017 at Fall Thomistic Circles.

Thomas Aquinas & the Gifts of the Holy Spirit | Fr. Joseph d'Amécourt OP

September 30, 2017 at Fall Thomistic Circles

Incarnate de Spiritu Sancto: the Holy Spirit & Christ's Conception | Fr. Dominic Legge OP

A lecture offered on October 7, 2017 at an Intellectual Retreat in Connecticut.
Lecture text available here:
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Divine Faith: Aquinas's Key to Eucharistic Realism | Prof. Reinhard Huetter

Sacramentality of Marriage and the Universal Call to Holiness | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP

The Holy Family: Exemplars of Faith, Hope, and Charity | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP

The Life and Sanctity of Thomas Aquinas | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP

A lecture by Prof. Candace Vogler given at a conference entitled "Christianity & Liberalism" at Harvard Law School on March 2-3, 2018.

The Troubles about Sex and Gender | Prof. Candace Vogler

This is the 6th in a series of 9 lectures on Christology offered to the Dominican Nuns of Buffalo, NY.

On the Metaphysics Of Union | Thomas Joseph White

This is the 8th in a series of 9 lectures on Christology offered to the Dominican Nuns of Buffalo, NY.

On Atonement | Thomas Joseph White

This talk was given by Dr. Pakaluk on October 16th, 2018 at the United States Naval Academy and was co-sponsored by the Catholic Midshipmen's Club.
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About the Speaker: 
Michael Pakaluk studied philosophy at Harvard College and the University of Edinburgh on a Marshall Scholarship before getting his Ph.D. at Harvard writing a dissertation under John Rawls. He is a recognized authority on classical philosophy, especially Aristotle’s ethics. Pakaluk has held academic appointments at Clark University, Brown University, Ave Maria University, and The Catholic University of America, among others.

The Fellowship of Happiness: Aquinas on the Making of Good Friends | Prof. Michael Pakaluk

In this lecture, Prof. Christopher Kaczor draws from the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas and research in contemporary psychology to discuss the final end to which human beings are ordered. 

This lecture was delivered by Prof. Christopher Kaczor(Loyola 
Marymount University) to the University of Arizona chapter of the Thomistic Institute on October 17, 2018.

What's the Purpose of Life? | Christopher Kaczor

This lecture was offered at UVA on October 19th, 2018. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

Speaker Bio:

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 a 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.

What is the Purpose of Life? Classical and Contemporary Answers | Jennifer Frey

This talk was offered as the first of a 2 part series at NYU on the "Wisdom of Aquinas." The second talk on "Human and Divine Friendship" is also available on SoundCloud. 
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Speaker Bio:
Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. serves presently as Assistant Director of Campus Outreach for the Thomistic Institute. He served previously as 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.

St. Thomas & the Meaning of Love: Love, Passion & Affection | Fr. Gregory Pine OP

This lecture was offered at the University of Oklahoma on November 13th, 2018. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

Speaker Bio:

Dr. Zena Hitz is a Tutor at St. John's College where she teaches across the liberal arts.  She is interested in defending intellectual activity for its own sake, as against its use for economic or political goals.  Her forthcoming book, Intellectual Life, is rooted in essays that have appeared in First Things, Modern Age, and The Washington Post.  Her scholarly work has focused on the political thought of Plato and Aristotle, especially the question of how law cultivates or fails to cultivate human excellence.  She received an MPhil in Classics from Cambridge and studied Social Thought and Philosophy at the University of Chicago before finishing her PhD in Philosophy at Princeton.

Why Leisure is Necessary for Human Beings | Zena Hitz

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/
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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 talk was given as part of a student-initiated colloquium on "What Can Aquinas Do for Asia" held in Rome on March 19, 2019.

What Can Aquinas do For Asia?: Thomism for the First Evangelization | Thomas Joseph White, OP

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

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