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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.

Latest Episodes:

The Moral Truth We All Know - Do Good and Avoid Evil | Prof. Jennifer Frey Mar 26, 2019

Show notes

This talk was offered at Brown University on March 13th, 2019

For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Speaker Bio

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

The Practice and Theory of Imagination in C.S. Lewis | Dr. Robert Royal Mar 25, 2019

Show notes

This talk was offered at University of Texas at Austin on March 9th, as the third lecture in a 3 part conference on "The Christian Imagination: Reflections of Flannery O'Connor, J.R.R. Tolkien, & C.S. Lewis."

The lectures offered included:

"A Pilgrim’s Progress: The Christian Imagination of Flannery O’Connor" - Raymond Hain (Providence College)

"Tolkien’s Wizardry: How Metaphysics Molded Middle-Earth, and Middle-Earth Shaped the Post-Modern World" - Robert Koons (University of Texas at Austin)

"The Practice and Theory of Imagination in C.S. Lewis" - Robert Royal (Faith & Reason Institute)

To learn more about upcoming events hosted by the TI, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Tolkien’s Wizardry: How Metaphysics Molded Middle-Earth | Prof. Robert Koons Mar 22, 2019

Show notes

This talk was offered at University of Texas at Austin on March 9th, as the second lecture in a 3 part conference on "The Christian Imagination: Reflections of Flannery O'Connor, J.R.R. Tolkien, & C.S. Lewis."

The lectures offered included:

"A Pilgrim’s Progress: The Christian Imagination of Flannery O’Connor" - Raymond Hain (Providence College)

"Tolkien’s Wizardry: How Metaphysics Molded Middle-Earth, and Middle-Earth Shaped the Post-Modern World" - Robert Koons (University of Texas at Austin)

"The Practice and Theory of Imagination in C.S. Lewis" - Robert Royal (Faith & Reason Institute)

To learn more about upcoming events hosted by the TI, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

A Pilgrim’s Progress: The Christian Imagination of Flannery O’Connor| Prof. Raymond Hain Mar 21, 2019

Show notes

This talk was offered at University of Texas at Austin on March 9th, as the first lecture in a 3 part conference on "The Christian Imagination: Reflections of Flannery O'Connor, J.R.R. Tolkien, & C.S. Lewis."

The lectures offered included:

"A Pilgrim’s Progress: The Christian Imagination of Flannery O’Connor" - Raymond Hain (Providence College)

"Tolkien’s Wizardry: How Metaphysics Molded Middle-Earth, and Middle-Earth Shaped the Post-Modern World" - Robert Koons (University of Texas at Austin)

"The Practice and Theory of Imagination in C.S. Lewis" - Robert Royal (Faith & Reason Institute)

To learn more about upcoming events hosted by the TI, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Who Am I To Judge? Politics and Moral Relativism | Prof. Michael Gorman Mar 20, 2019

Show notes

This lecture was offered for our chapter at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario on March 11th, 2019.

For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website:

www. thomisticinstitute.org.

About the speaker:

Michael Gorman is a Professor of Philosophy at CUA. He received a doctorate in philosophy from SUNY Buffalo and a doctorate in theology from Boston College. He is also a scholar in the Templeton Virtue Project and a fellow of CUA's Institute for Human Ecology. He recently published a book, Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Hypostatic Union, published by Cambridge University Press.

Why Did God Become Man? | Prof. Michael Gorman Mar 18, 2019

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This lecture was delivered at the University of Arizona on February 19, 2019. For more information about upcoming Thomistic Institute events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

A Reasonable God in the Public Square: Regensburg Revisited | Sohrab Ahmari Mar 15, 2019

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This talk was offered at NYU on March 9th, 2019 as part of the day long conference "Does Politics Need God?"

The conference featuring Prof. Paul Rahe (Hillsdale College), Prof. Steve Long (Ave Maria University), Sohrab Ahmari (New York Post), and a panel including Prof. Robert George (Princeton University), Prof. Vincent Phillip Muñoz (University of Notre Dame) and Fr. Dominic Legge, OP (Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception and the Thomistic Institute). It was co-sponsored by the University of Notre Dame Tocqueville Program

For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Aquinas vs. Freud: The Problem of Unconscious Motivation | Prof. Therese Cory Mar 14, 2019

Show notes

This lecture was given for our chapter at Harvard University on march 7th, 2019.

For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: www.thomisticinstitute.org

About the speaker:

Therese Scarpelli Cory is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, specializing in the thought of Thomas Aquinas and his Arabic sources. She loves discussing philosophy with her students, and is especially interested in problems relating to the human person, the mind / soul, and how to live well.

What has the Historical Jesus to do with the Church's Christ? | Fr. Isaac Morales, OP Mar 13, 2019

Show notes

This talk was offered at Trinity University, San Antonio on February 11th, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

Lecture Description:

Every year around Christmas and Easter, it seems, the media runs a story about “who Jesus really was.” Magazine articles and television specials purport to tell us the truth about the man from Nazareth – a truth, they often claim, that the Church has tried to cover up for centuries. These stories represent one popular manifestation of what has come to be known as the “quest for the historical Jesus.” While this quest is a legitimate scholarly discipline, it can sometimes unsettle believers, leading them to question the reliability of the gospels and the truth of the Church’s faith in Christ. In this talk, Fr. Morales will first consider a couple of the main presuppositions that underlie much historical Jesus scholarship. He will then discuss the nature of the gospels and their relation to history. Finally, he will offer a brief sketch of what we can know about Jesus based simply on historical research, arguing that a responsible historical sketch helps to illuminate the Church’s faith in Christ.

Speaker Bio:

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 201112, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the LudwigMaximilians Universität in Munich. Fr. was ordained to the priesthood in May of 2018.

Evil and the Goodness of God: Aquinas on the Problem of Evil | Prof. Gloria Frost Mar 12, 2019

Show notes

This lecture was given at our chapter at Texas A&M University on February 25, 2019.

For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: www.thomisticinstitute.org

Speaker Bio:

Gloria Frost is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, MN. Her areas of research are medieval philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and the history of science. She is an assistant editor for the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly and on the executive councils for the American Catholic Philosophical Association and the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy. She is married to Jake Frost, author of "Catholic Dad" and the "Happy Jar," and they have four children.

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