This lecture was given to the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Santa Barbara on February 24, 2021.

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About the speaker:
Carol Zaleski is the Professor of World Religions at Smith College in Northampton Massachusetts, where she has been teaching philosophy of religion, world religions, religion and literature, and Catholic thought since 1989. She is the author of Otherworld Journeys: Accounts of NearDeath Experience in Medieval and Modern Times (Oxford University Press) and The Life of the World to Come: NearDeath Experience and Christian Hope (Oxford University Press); and she is coauthor with Philip Zaleski of Prayer: A History (Houghton Mifflin), The Book of Heaven (Oxford University Press), and The Fellowship: The Literary Lives of the Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, Owen Barfield, Charles Williams (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).

C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien: Faith and Reason in a World under Siege | Prof. Carol Zaleski

This lecture was given to Florida State University on February 5, 2021. The handout for this lecture may be found here: https://tinyurl.com/anznn27e

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About the Speaker:
Dr. Timothy Pawl is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas, in St. Paul, MN.  His research focuses on metaphysics and philosophical theology. In metaphysics he works on truthmaker theory, modality, and free will. In philosophical theology, he has published on transubstantiation, Christology, and divine immutability.

He has published two monographs in the Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology series, entitled In Defense of Conciliar Christology: A Philosophical Essay and In Defense of Extended Conciliar Christology:  A Philosophical Essay. In those books he argues that the philosophical objections to the traditional Christian doctrine of the incarnation fail. His current research focuses on the intersection of moral philosophy, Christian virtue, and psychology.  Christian thinkers from the desert fathers to the 16th century moralists and beyond have provided guidance for how to grow in virtues like temperance and fortitude.  Is any of that advice supported (or falsified) by contemporary psychological findings?  He’d like to know.

He is the husband of another philosopher: her name is Faith Glavey Pawl. He is the proud father of one son and four daughters.

What Is Truth? | Prof. Timothy Pawl

This lecture was given to the Dominican House of Studies on February 26, 2021 as part of the second installment of the annual Thomistic Circles series: What is the Common Good?

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About the speaker:
Russell Hittinger is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of St. Louis. He was the Warren Chair of Catholic Studies and Research Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa from 1996-2019. Russell has been a member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas since 2001 and was appointed an ordinarius in the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in 2009 by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. He has taught at Fordham University and at the Catholic University of America, as well as at many other universities as a visiting professor, including Providence College and Princeton. Along with a plethora of articles, he has written The First Grace: Rediscovering Natural Law in a Post-Christian Age and A Critique of the New Natural Law Theory.

Some Reflections on the Common Good in Modern Catholic Social Doctrine | Prof. Russell Hittinger

This lecture was given to Dominican University College in Ottawa, Canada. 

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About the speaker:
Fr. Maxime Allard is a professor of theology and philosophy at the Dominican University College in Ottawa, Canada. He received his MA in philosophy from the University of Ottawa and his Ph.D. in theology from Laval University in Québec. His expertise includes philosophy of the 17th century, philosophy of religion, hermeneutics and political philosophy.

Aquinas And Sacrifice | Fr. Maxime Allard, O.P.

This lecture was given to the UVA chapter on March 15, 2021. Fr. Brent's lecture concludes at 1:05:15. The remainder of the lecture is a Q&A session with Fr. Brent. 

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About the Speaker:
Fr. James Dominic Brent, O.P. was born and raised in Michigan. He pursued his undergraduate and graduate studies in Philosophy, and completed his doctorate in Philosophy at Saint Louis University on the epistemic status of Christian beliefs according to Saint Thomas Aquinas. He has articles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Natural Theology, in the Oxford Handbook of Thomas Aquinas on “God’s Knowledge and Will”, and an article forthcoming on “Thomas Aquinas” in the Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology. He earned his STL from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, and was ordained a priest in the same year. He taught in the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America from 2010- 2014, and spent the year of 2014-2015 doing full time itinerant preaching on college campuses across the United States.

The Indwelling of the Holy Trinity | Fr. James Brent, O.P.

This lecture was given to the University of Texas at El Paso on March 10, 2021. 

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About the speaker:
Joshua Hochschild is the Monsignor Robert R. Kline Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University, where he also served six years as the inaugural Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. His primary research is in medieval logic, metaphysics, and ethics, with broad interest in liberal education and the continuing relevance of the Catholic intellectual tradition. He is the author of The Semantics of Analogy: Rereading Cajetan’s De Nominum Analogia (2010), translator of Claude Panaccio’s Mental Language: From Plato to William of Ockham (2017), and co-author of A Mind at Peace: Reclaiming an Ordered Soul in the Age of Distraction (2017). His writing has appeared in First Things, Commonweal, Modern Age and the Wall Street Journal. For 2020-21 he’s been elected to serve as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

Proofs for God's Existence: Aquinas on Reason, Uncertainty, and Faith | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

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

Homily on the Holy Trinity

This lecture was given at Texas A&M University on October 15, 2020.

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About the speaker:
Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and Assistant Professor in Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001, after having practiced constitutional law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also taught at The Catholic University of America Law School and at Providence College. He is the author of The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Prayer, Study, and the Mind's Ascent to God | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

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