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What Happened to the Second Coming? | Fr. Richard Ounsworth, O.P. Oct 28, 2020

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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.

Speaker bio:

Fr Richard teaches scripture and New Testament Greek in the Studium. He is the Dean of Degrees at the Hall: he presents students at University matriculation and graduation ceremonies. From Michaelmas 2018, Fr Richard will be teaching The Letter to the Hebrews for the University in the Theology and Religious Studies Faculty.

Fr Richard studied theology at Oxford at both undergraduate and graduate level; he studied history at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the Provincial Bursar of the English Dominicans.

We Shall Be Like Him: Contemplation as Deification | Fr. Isaac Morales, O.P. Oct 26, 2020

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This talk was given on September 26, 2020 as part of the Thomistic Institute's East Coast Intellectual Retreat.

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Fr. Isaac Morales, O.P. entered the Dominican novitiate for the Province of St. Joseph in the summer of 2012. Before joining the order, Fr. Isaac received a BSE in civil engineering from Duke University, an MTS with a concentration in biblical studies from the University of Notre Dame, and a PhD in New Testament from Duke University. After completing his PhD, he taught in the department of theology at Marquette University for four years. During the academic year 2011/12, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich. Fr. was ordained to the priesthood in May of 2018.

Seeing God | Fr. Ephrem Reese, O.P. Oct 23, 2020

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This talk was given on September 25, 2020 as part of the Thomistic Institute's East Coast Intellectual Retreat.

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Fr. Ephrem Reese, O.P., was born in Harrisburg, PA. He received a B.A. from St. John's College in Annapolis, MD in 2010, and was confirmed in the Catholic Church around the same time. He entered the Order of Preachers in the summer of 2013. In the spring of 2020 he was ordained a priest, and received an S.T.L. from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC.

God in St. Augustine's Confessions | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P. Oct 21, 2020

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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.

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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.

Common Mistakes about God and Suffering | Prof. Robert Koons Oct 16, 2020

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This lecture was streamed for Texas State University on September 24, 2020.

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About the speaker:

Robert C. (“Rob”) Koons is a professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has taught for 33 years. M. A. Oxford, Ph.D. UCLA. He is the author or co-author of four books, including: Realism Regained (Oxford University Press, 2000), and The Atlas of Reality: A Comprehensive Guide to Metaphysics, with Timothy H. Pickavance (Wiley-Blackwell, 2017). He is the co-editor (with George Bealer) of The Waning of Materialism (Oxford University Press, 2010), and co-editor (with Nicholas Teh and William Simpson) of Neo-Aristotelian Perspectives on Contemporary Science (Routledge, 2018). He has been working recently on an Aristotelian interpretation of quantum theory, on defending and articulating Thomism in contemporary terms, and on arguments for classical theism.

Love, Friendship, and Heavenly Happiness | Prof. Christopher Kaczor Oct 14, 2020

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This lecture was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 5th, 2020.

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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 project awarded by the John Templeton Foundation, titled "Virtue, Happiness, and Meaning in Life." She is currently at work on three separate book projects.

Hillbilly Thomism Flannery O'Connor's Vision Of Grace | Prof. Jennifer Frey Oct 14, 2020

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This lecture was livestreamed from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 5th, 2020.

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Is the Human Person Naturally Religious? Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. Oct 09, 2020

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This talk was given for the University Edinburgh on September 24, 2020.

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Fr. White 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.

St. Thomas Aquinas Our Common Doctor For Theology Today | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P. Oct 07, 2020

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This talk was given at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. as part of the Thomistic Institute Livestream. For more information on upcoming events, visit us online: thomisticinstitute.org.

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