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Is Belief In God Rational? | Fr. Gregory Pine, OP Nov 22, 2019

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This lecture was given at the University of Oklahoma on 23 October 2019.

Fr. Gregory Pine, OP 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.

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Why Leisure Is Necessary For Human Beings | Prof. Zena Hitz Nov 20, 2019

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This lecture was given at the University of South Carolina on 23 October 2019.

Dr. Zena Hitz is a Tutor at St. John's College where she teaches across the liberal arts. She is interested in defending intellectual activity for its own sake, as against its use for economic or political goals. Her forthcoming book, Intellectual Life, is rooted in essays that have appeared in First Things, Modern Age, and The Washington Post. Her scholarly work has focused on the political thought of Plato and Aristotle, especially the question of how law cultivates or fails to cultivate human excellence. She received an MPhil in Classics from Cambridge and studied Social Thought and Philosophy at the University of Chicago before finishing her PhD in Philosophy at Princeton.

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St. John Henry Newman on the Complexity of Human Knowledge | Prof. Joshua Hochschild Nov 19, 2019

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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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Why Leisure Is Necessary For Human Beings | Zena Hitz Nov 18, 2019

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This lecture was given by Dr. Zena Hitz (St. John's College (Annapolis) at Tulane University on 3 October 2019.

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The Gift and Fruits of the Holy Spirit | Prof. Eleonore Stump Nov 15, 2019

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This lecture was given at St. Savior's Priory (Dublin) on 9 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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Apostles of Empire: The Jesuits and New France | Prof. Bronwen McShea Nov 14, 2019

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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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Wendell Berry, Political Philosophy, & the Catholic Intellectual Tradition | Prof. Joshua Hochschild Nov 13, 2019

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This lecture was given at the University of Texas at Austin on 24 October 2019.

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Spiritual But Not Religious | Prof. Paige Hochschild Nov 12, 2019

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This lecture was given at Harvard University by Prof. Paige Hochschild (Mount St. Mary's University) on 11 October 2019.

Dr. Paige Hochschild is a professor of historical and systematic theology at Mount St. Mary's University (MD), specializing in Augustine, Thomas Aquinas and the early Church. She also teaches philosophy courses at the Seminary at Mount St. Mary's. She has written a book on the place of memory in Augustine's theological anthropology and publishes on the Church, education, tradition, 20th c. theological debates within the Church (Scripture, history; marriage).

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The Reasons Of The Heart: A Philosophy Of Love | Fr. Gregory Pine, OP Nov 08, 2019

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This lecture was given at the University of Kansas on 30 September 2019.

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.

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The Search For Meaning: A Talk On Finding Happiness | Prof. Alexander Pruss Nov 07, 2019

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This lecture was given at Brown University on 18 October 2019.

Alexander Pruss has doctorates both in philosophy and mathematics, and is currently Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University. His books include The Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Reassessment (Cambridge University Press), One Body: An Essay in Christian Sexual Ethics (Notre Dame University Press), and Actuality, Possibility and Worlds (Continuum). His research areas include metaphysics, philosophy of religion, Christian ethics, philosophy of mathematics and formal epistemology.

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