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The Thomistic Institute

The Thomistic Institute exists to promote Catholic truth in our contemporary world by strengthening the intellectual formation of Christians at universities, in the Church, and in the wider public square. The thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Universal Doctor of the Church, is our touchstone.

The Thomistic Institute Podcast features the lectures and talks from our conferences, campus chapters events, intellectual retreats, livestream events, and much more.

Founded in 2009, the Thomistic Institute is part of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC.

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Aquinas on the New Adam | Prof. Matthew Levering Mar 01, 2021

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This talk was given at the annual lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas held at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 21, 2021.

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About the speaker:

Matthew Levering holds the James N. and Mary D. Perry Jr. Chair of Theology at Mundelein Seminary. He is the author or editor of over forty books on topics of dogmatic, sacramental, moral, historical, and biblical theology. He is the translator of Gilles Emery’s The Trinity. Most recently he has published Engaging the Doctrine of Creation, An Introduction to Vatican II as an Ongoing Theological Event, and Engaging the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit: Love and Gift in the Trinity and the Church. He coedits two quarterly journals, Nova et Vetera and International Journal of Systematic Theology. Since 2004, he has been a participant in Evangelicals and Catholics Together, and from 20072016 he served as Chair of the Board of the Academy of Catholic Theology. He cofounded the Chicago Theological Initiative and has directed the Center for Scriptural Exegesis, Philosophy, and Doctrine since 2011. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the St. Paul Center.

So You Want to Be a Doctor? Medicine as Instrumental Job vs. Sacred Vocation | Dr. Farr Curlin Feb 26, 2021

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This lecture was given on February 11, 2021 to the Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt Medical School chapters.

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About the Speaker:

Farr Curlin is the Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities and Co-Director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative (TMC) at Duke University. Dr. Curlin’s ethics scholarship takes up moral questions that are raised by religion associated differences in physicians’ practices. He is an active palliative medicine physician and holds appointments in both the School of Medicine and the Divinity School, where he is working with colleagues to develop a new interdisciplinary community of scholarship and training focused on the intersection of theology, medicine, and culture.

Law without a Lawgiver? | Prof. Francis Beckwith Feb 24, 2021

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This lecture was given on October 29, 2020 to Texas A&M University.

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About the Speaker:

Francis J. Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy & 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).

Creation and Evolution: Answers to Different Questions | Prof. Kenneth Kemp Feb 22, 2021

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This lecture was given on January 25, 2021 to West Virginia University.

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About the Speaker:

Kenneth W. Kemp is Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and a Fellow of that University’s Center for Catholic Studies. His education includes an M.A. in the History and Philosophy of Science as well as a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. His research work has included ethics (in particular questions of morality and war) and historical and philosophical inquiry into the relations between science and religion (with a particular focus on the theory of evolution).

Suffering, Sacrifice, and Leadership | Prof. Joseph McInerney Feb 19, 2021

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This lecture was given on November 23, 2020 to the United States Military Academy - West Point.

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About the Speaker:

Captain Joe McInerney is the Chairman of the Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law and Permanent Military Professor of Applied Ethics at the United States Naval Academy. Captain McInerney lectures in the Naval Academy’s core ethics course, which is offered to all Third Class Midshipman (sophomores) at the Naval Academy and teaches elective courses in the fields of Christian morality and leadership. In 2016, Captain McInerney published his first book, The Greatness of Humility: St. Augustine on Moral Excellence. Captain McInerney served as a Fellow at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the United States Naval Academy for the 2008-2009 academic year. He graduated from The Catholic University of America with a doctorate in systematic theology in October 2012 after completing a dissertation on the moral thought of St. Augustine. Captain McInerney also holds a bachelor’s degree in history from the United States Naval Academy and a Masters of Theological Studies from the Pontifical Lateran University.

When is War Justified? A Catholic Perspective | Prof. Joseph Capizzi Feb 17, 2021

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This lecture was given on November 4, 2020 to University College Dublin. The slides for this lecture are available here: tinyurl.com/ydf93234

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About the Speaker:

Joseph E. Capizzi is Ordinary Professor of Moral Theology at the Catholic University of America. He teaches in the areas of social and political theology, with special interests in issues in peace and war, citizenship, political authority, and Augustinian theology. He has written, lectured, and published widely on just war theory, bioethics, the history of moral theology, and political liberalism. Dr. Capizzi is the Executive Director of the Institute for Human Ecology at Catholic University. He received his B.A. from the University of Virginia, his Masters in Theological Studies from Emory University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame. He lives in Maryland with his wife and six children.

Reading Scripture with Benedict and Francis | Prof. Lewis Ayres Feb 15, 2021

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The lecture was given to the University of Edinburgh on November 10, 2020.

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About the Speaker:

Lewis Ayres is Professor of Catholic and Historical Theology at Durham University in the United Kingdom. He specializes in the study of early Christian theology, especially the history of Trinitarian theology and early Christian exegesis. He is also deeply interested in the relationship between the shape of early Christian modes of discourse and reflection and the manner in which renewals of Catholic theology during the last hundred years have attempted to engage forms of modern historical consciousness and sought to negotiate the shape of appropriate scriptural interpretation in modernity, even as they remain faithful to the practices of classical Catholic discourse and contemplation.

Catholicism in Contemporary Astronomy | Prof. Karin Oberg Feb 12, 2021

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The lecture was given to Boston University on October 27, 2020.

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About the Speaker:

Karin Öberg is Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University. Her specialty is astrochemistry and her research aims to uncover how chemical processes affect the outcome of planet formation, especially the chemical habitability of nascent planets. Dr. Öberg obtained her B.Sc. in chemistry at Caltech in 2005, and her Ph.D. in astronomy, with a thesis focused on laboratory astrochemistry, from Leiden University in 2009. She did postdoctoral work at Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as a NASA Hubble fellow, focusing on millimeter observations of planet-forming disks around young stars. In 2013 she joined the Harvard astronomy faculty as an assistant professor. She was promoted and named the Thomas D. Cabot Associate Professor in Astronomy in 2016, and promoted to full professor with tenure in 2017. Dr. Öberg’s research in astrochemistry has been recognized with a Sloan fellowship, a Packard fellowship, the Newton Lacy Pierce Award from the American Astronomical Society, and a Simons fellowship.

Does God Exist? And How Could We Know? | Prof. Joshua Hochschild Feb 10, 2021

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The lecture was given to West Virginia University on October 16, 2020.

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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.

Aquinas on the Final Purpose of Human Existence and Human Prudence | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. Feb 08, 2021

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This lecture was given to the University of Texas at Austin on November 19, 2020.

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About the speaker:

Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. is the Director of the Thomistic Institute at the Angelicum. He did his doctoral studies at Oxford University and has research interests in metaphysics, Christology, Trinitarian theology, and the theology of grace. His books include The Incarnate Lord, A Thomistic Study in Christology (2015) and The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism (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.

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