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The Psychology of Happiness: Stoicism in the City of God | Prof. Sarah Byers May 04, 2020

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This lecture was given at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on November 5, 2019.

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Sarah Byers is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. Her areas of expertise include Augustine, Hellenistic philosophy, and the history of ethics. She received a MA and PhD from the University of Toronto.

Should We Legalize Physician-Assisted Suicide? | Prof. John Keown and Dr. Joseph Marine May 01, 2020

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This lecture was given at Johns Hopkins University on February 17, 2020.

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Dr. John Keown is the Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Christian Ethics in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. He graduated in law from Cambridge and took a doctorate in law at Oxford, after which he was called to the Bar of England and Wales (Middle Temple). After a spell teaching medical and criminal law at the University of Leicester, he became the first holder of a lectureship in the law and ethics of medicine at Cambridge, where he was elected to a Fellowship at Queens' College and, later, a Senior Research Fellowship at Churchill College. In 2015 he was made a Doctor of Civil Law by the University of Oxford in recognition of his contribution to law and bioethics.

He has published widely in the law and ethics of medicine, specializing in issues at the beginning and end of life. The second and heavily revised edition of his widely acclaimed book Euthanasia, Ethics and Public Policy: An Argument Against Legalisation was published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. His research has been cited by distinguished bodies worldwide.

Joseph Marine, MD, MBA, FACC, FHRS, is a board-certified clinical cardiac electrophysiologist who practices primarily at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and holds appointments as Vice-Director of the Division of Cardiology and Section Chief of Cardiology for Johns Hopkins Community Physicians. He trained at UC San Francisco Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston University Medical Center, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Dr. Marine has lectured widely on a variety of arrhythmia topics and has served as a co-director of the American College of Cardiology (ACC) Cardiovascular Overview and Board Review Course for 10 years.

Living a Life of Divine Worship | Fr. Michael O'Connor, O.P. Apr 29, 2020

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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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Aquinas on the Moral Development of Friendship | Prof. Craig Titus Apr 27, 2020

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The full title of this lecture is "Aquinas on the Moral Development of Friendship: Love as a Contribution to Mental Health Practice." It was given at a conference on "Love, Friendship, and Happiness," co-sponsored with the Scala Foundation and the Aquinas Institute at Princeton Theological Seminary on February 15, 2020. This conference featured Prof. Erika Kidd (University of St. Thomas), Prof. Craig Titus (Divine Mercy University), Prof. Anna Moreland (Villanova University), and Dr. RJ Snell (The Witherspoon Institute).

Speaker Bio: Dr. Craig Steven Titus, S.T.D., Ph.D teaches the integration courses pertaining to the nature of the human person; practical reason and moral character; and marriage and family life at Divine Mercy University. In addition to these areas, his research interests include virtue theory, emotional and moral development, psychology of virtue, and the integration of psychological sciences, philosophy, and theology.

His book, Resilience and the Virtue of Fortitude: Aquinas in Dialogue with the Psychosocial Sciences (CUA Press, 2006), sets up a dialogue between virtue theory and the psychological research on resilience and overcoming difficulty. He has published numerous articles. He is co-editor of The Pinckaers Reader: Renewing Thomistic Moral Theology (CUA Press, 2005) and editor of nine other books.

Dr. Titus previously worked as Researcher and Instructor at the University of Fribourg, where he served as Vice-Director of the St. Thomas Aquinas Institute for Theology and Culture and Vice-Director of the Servais Pinckaers Archives.

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Chance or Purpose? God's Providence and the Christian Worldview | Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. Apr 25, 2020

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This lecture was given at the United States Military Academy on February 11, 2020.

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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.

The Remedy for Confused Kenoticism: Aquinas as a Kenotic Theologian | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. Apr 22, 2020

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This lecture was given at a conference co-sponsored by the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal at Ave Maria University and the Thomistic Institute entitled "Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology" in February 2020.

Bruce Marshall (Southern Methodist University) and Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP (Angelicum) were this conference’s keynote speakers. Other speakers include: Prof. Richard Bauckham (University of St. Andrews), Prof. Oliver Crisp (University of St. Andrews), Nathan Eubank (University of Notre Dame), Fr. Anthony Giambrone, OP (École biblique et archéologique fraçaise de Jérusalem) Fr. Dominic Langevin, OP (Dominican House of Studies), Fr. Dominic Legge, OP (Dominican House of Studies), Fr. Guy Mansini, OSB (Ave Maria University), Prof. Matthew Ramage, (Benedictine College) and Daria Spezzano (Providence College).

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).

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Is the Coronavirus a Punishment from God? | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. Apr 21, 2020

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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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St Thomas Aquinas on Natural Law: The Contemporary Relevance of a Medieval Idea | Prof. Kenneth Kemp Apr 20, 2020

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This lecture was given at Florida State University on February 4, 2020.

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Kenneth W. Kemp is an Associate Professor 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).

The Virgin Mary and the Church: The New Eve | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P. Apr 17, 2020

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This lecture was given at Harvard University on February 19, 2020.

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Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., is Master of Students and Associate Professor of Patristics and Ancient Languages at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, Dominican House of Studies, in Washington, DC. He earned his Ph.D. in Theology (History of Christianity) in 2010 from the University of Notre Dame. His short studies appear in such journals as Vigiliae Christianae, Augustinianum, International Journal of Systematic Theology, New Blackfriars, Nova et Vetera, Pro Ecclesia, The Thomist, Communio, and Angelicum and in books published by Catholic University America Press, Ignatius Press, Oxford University Press, and Sapientia Press. Additionally, he is the author of Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus (Oxford Early Christian Studies), Oxford University Press, 2013, and the editor of Divinization: Becoming Icons of Christ through the Liturgy, Hillenbrand Books, 2015. He is currently at work on long projects related to Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers, a general introduction to patristic theology, and a select theological appraisal of patristic preaching as a resource for revitalizing preaching today.

Poetry, Philosophy, and the Sacred: An Example by G.M. Hopkins | Prof. Kevin Hart Apr 15, 2020

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This lecture was given at Hillsdale College on 26 February 2020.

About the speaker: Kevin Hart is the Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia where he also holds professorships in the Departments of English and French. His most recent scholarly books include Kingdoms of God (Indiana UP, 2014) and Poetry and Revelation (Bloomsbury, 2017). Among the books he has edited are JeanLuc Marion: The Essential Writings (Fordham UP, 2013) and The Exorbitant: Emmanuel Levinas between Jews and Christians(Fordham UP, 2010). He is currently editing the fifth volume of a multivolume series The Bible and Literature, which will appear with Bloomsbury in 2020. His poetry is gathered in Wild Track: New and Selected Poems (Notre Dame UP, 2015) and Barefoot (Notre Dame UP, 2018). Among other honors, he holds an honorary doctoral degree in Philosophy from the Institut Catholique de Paris.

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