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This lecture was given at the second event in the annual Thomistic Circles series on "Salvation in Christ" on September 7th, 2019.

This conference featured Prof. Marcus Plested (Marquette University), Fr. Robert Imbelli (Boston College), Fr. Khaled Anatolios (University of Notre Dame), Fr. Dominic Legge, OP (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception), and Prof. Rik van Nieuwenhove (Durham University).

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Salvation: A View from the Byzantine Liturgy | Fr. Khaled Anatolios

This lecture was given at the second event in the annual Thomistic Circles series on "Salvation in Christ" on September 7th, 2019.

This conference featured Prof. Marcus Plested (Marquette University), Fr. Robert Imbelli (Boston College), Fr. Khaled Anatolios (University of Notre Dame), Fr. Dominic Legge, OP (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception), and Prof. Rik van Nieuwenhove (Durham University).

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Salvation As Incorporation Into Christ |  Fr. Robert Imbelli

This retreat conference was given at the Fall 2019 Intellectual Retreat "Dante and Aquinas: The Theological Vision of the Divine Comedy" held at the Moody Center on 20-22 September 2019.

Presenters at this retreat were Fr. Gregory Pine, OP (Thomistic Institute), Dr. Robert Royal (Faith and Reason Institute), and Fr. Albert Trudel, OP (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception).

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Death as Exodus in the Purgatorio | Fr. Gregory Pine, OP

This lecture was given by Prof. Catherine Pakaluk at the United States Naval Academy on 10 September 2019.

Catherine Ruth Pakaluk (Ph.D, 2010) joined the faculty at the Busch School of Business at the Catholic University of America in the summer of 2016 and is Assistant Professor of Social Research and Economic Thought. Formerly, she was Assistant Professor and Chair of the Economics Department at Ave Maria University. Her primary areas of research include economics of education and religion, family studies and demography, Catholic social thought and political economy. Dr. Pakaluk is the 2015 recipient of the Acton Institute’s Novak Award, a prize given for “significant contributions to the study of the relationship between religion and economic liberty.”

Pakaluk did her doctoral work at Harvard University under Caroline Hoxby, David Cutler, and 2016 Nobel-laureate Oliver Hart. Her dissertation, “Essays in Applied Microeconomics,” examined the relationship between religious ‘fit' and educational outcomes, the role of parental effort in observed peer effects and school quality, and theoretical aspects of the contraceptive revolution as regards twentieth century demographic trends. 

Beyond her formal training in economics, Dr. Pakaluk studied Catholic social thought under the mentorship of F. Russell Hittinger, and various aspects of Thomistic thought with Steven A. Long. She is a widely-admired writer and sought-after speaker on matters of culture, gender, social science, the vocation of women, and the work of Edith Stein. She lives in Maryland with her husband Michael Pakaluk and eight children.

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John Paul II on Catholic Family Life | Prof. Catherine Pakaluk

This lecture by Dhananjay Jagannathan was given as part of "The Moral Imagination of the Novel: A Conference" held at Columbia University on 4-5 October 2019.

The program included lectures by Paul Elie (Georgetown), Lauren Kopajtic (Fordham), Dhananjay Jagannathan (Columbia), Sr. Ann Astell ( Notre Dame), and Thomas Pavel (Chicago).

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The Anti-Moral Imagination Of Michel Houellebecq | Dhananjay Jagannathan

This talk was offered for our chapter at the University of Texas at Austin on September 26, 2019. 

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Speaker Bio:
Paul Gondreau earned his doctorate in sacred theology from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, writing under the renowned Thomist scholar Rev. JeanPierre Torrell, O.P. He is professor of theology at Providence College in Rhode Island, where he teaches/has taught courses on marriage, Christology, the theology of Thomas Aquinas, the Church, the Eucharist, the Sacraments, and the Catholic thought of J.R.R. Tolkien.

He has a published manuscript on Christ's human passions in the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas and has published numerous essays in the area of Thomistic Christology, Thomistic anthropology, a Thomistic account of human sexuality, and a Thomistic theology of disability. He is associate editor of the theological journal Nova et Vetera, and has served as a consultant to the USCCB's committee on marriage and family.

The Moral Grammar of the Human Person as a Body-Soul Unity | Prof. Paul Gondreau

This lecture was given by Prof. Peter Kreeft (Boston College) at Rutgers University on 8 October 2019.

Dr. Peter Kreeft is a professor of philosophy at Boston College and teaches philosophy courses at King’s College. Kreeft is a popular writer of Christian philosophy, theology and apologetics and the author of dozens of books, two of which include The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind the Lord of the Rings and Symbol or Substance: A Dialogue on the Eucharist with C. S. Lewis, Billy Graham and J. R. R. Tolkien.

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Tolkien And The Eucharist In "The Lord Of The Rings" | Prof. Peter Kreeft

This lecture was given at the Yale Law School on 7 October 2019.

Gladden Pappin is assistant professor of politics at the University of Dallas, and is the cofounder of American Affairs. He is also a permanent research fellow and senior adviser of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame. He received his AB (history) and PhD (government) from Harvard. His writings appear regularly in a variety of publications, including the Norton Anthology of American Political Thought.

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The Political Boundaries Of The Church | Prof. Gladden Pappin

This talk was given September 25, 2019 at The University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon by Fr. Gregory Pine OP (Thomistic Institute)
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Speaker Bio:

Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. serves presently as the Assistant Director for Campus Outreach with the Thomistic Institute in Washington, DC. 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.

Beauty Unveiled | Fr. Gregory Pine, OP

This talk was given at our chapter at West Point. 

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Faith and Reason in the Life of St. John Henry Newman | Dr. Nathaniel Peters

This lecture was given at University College Dublin on 8 October 2019.

Eleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University, where she has taught since 1992. She is also Honorary Professor at Wuhan University and at the Logos Institute, St. Andrews, and she is a Professorial Fellow at Australian Catholic University. She has published extensively in philosophy of religion, contemporary metaphysics, and medieval philosophy. Her books include her major study Aquinas (Routledge, 2003), her extensive treatment of the problem of evil, Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (Oxford, 2010), and her far-reaching examination of human redemption, Atonement (Oxford, 2018). She has given the Gifford Lectures (Aberdeen, 2003), the Wilde lectures (Oxford, 2006), the Stewart lectures (Princeton, 2009) and the Stanton lectures (Cambridge, 2018). She is past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and the American Philosophical Association, Central Division; and she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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What is the Meaning of Suffering? | Prof. Eleonore Stump

This lecture was given at the University of Toronto on 22 October 2019.

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.

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St. John Henry Newman on the Complexity of Human Knowledge | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

This lecture was offered at Harvard University on 10 October, 2019

Dr. Bronwen Catherine McShea lives in Princeton, New Jersey, where she is an Associate Research Scholar with Princeton University's James Madison Program. With advanced degrees from both Harvard University and Yale University, she is a scholar of European history and of the history of Christianity, with research interests in French culture and overseas imperialism, and Catholic missions across the globe, in the 15th through 19th centuries. Additionally, as a writer, speaker, and artist, McShea is concerned broadly with the Catholic faith as a bearer and shaper of culture.

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