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Culture, Nature and God in the Social Sciences | Prof. Margarita Mooney Feb 20, 2019

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This talk was offered on February 16th, 2019 at Princeton Theological Seminary. It was one of the talks offered at the "Faith, Science and Nature Conference" co-sponsored by the Thomistic Institute, the Scala Foundation and PTS.

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Speaker Bio:

Margarita Mooney is an Associate Professor of Congregational Studies at Princeton Theological Seminary and also the founder of the Scala Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to reinvigorating classical liberal arts education and preserving the ideas and practices necessary to maintain a free society.

Dr. Mooney holds a B.A. in Psychology from Yale University, and then earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University, publishing her dissertation as the book, "Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora" in 2009.

Before returning to Princeton in 2016, Dr. Mooney was on the faculty of the Sociology Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2007-2013, and then served on the faculty for the Sociology Dept. at Yale University from 2013-2016. Her research has been funded by two grants from the John Templeton Foundation totaling more than $3 million. She is currently working on a book manuscript tentatively entitled Living a Broken Life, Beautifully that explores the religious lives of young adults who have experienced traumatic life events.

Good, Evil and Science | Fr. James Brent, OP Feb 19, 2019

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Fr. James Dominic Brent, O.P. was born and raised in Michigan. He pursued his undergraduate and graduate studies in Philosophy, and completed his doctorate in Philosophy at Saint Louis University on the epistemic status of Christian beliefs according to Saint Thomas Aquinas. He has articles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Natural Theology, in the Oxford Handbook of Thomas Aquinas on “God’s Knowledge and Will”, and an article forthcoming on “Thomas Aquinas” in the Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology. He earned his STL from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, and was ordained a priest in the same year. He taught in the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America from 2010- 2014, and spent the year of 2014-2015 doing full time itinerant preaching on college campuses across the United States. He currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception.

Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, & Machines in the Age of Technology | Prof. William Hurlbut Feb 18, 2019

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This talk was offered on February 15th, 2019 at Princeton Theological Seminary. It was the keynote address for a 2 day conference on "Faith, Science and Nature" co-sponsored by the Thomistic Institute, the Scala Foundation and PTS.

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Speaker Bio:

William B. Hurlbut, MD, is Adjunct Professor and Senior Research Scholar in Neurobiology at the Stanford Medical School. After receiving his undergraduate and medical training at Stanford University, he completed postdoctoral studies in theology and medical ethics, studying with Robert Hamerton-Kelly, the Dean of the Chapel at Stanford, and subsequently with the Rev. Louis Bouyer of the Institut Catholique de Paris.

His primary areas of interest involve the ethical issues associated with advancing biomedical technology, the biological basis of moral awareness, and studies in the integration of theology with the philosophy of biology. He is the author of numerous publications on science and ethics including the co-edited volume Altruism and Altruistic Love: Science, Philosophy, and Religion in Dialogue (2002, Oxford University Press), and “Science, Religion and the Human Spirit” in the Oxford Handbook of Religion and Science (2008). He was also co-chair of two interdisciplinary faculty projects at Stanford University, “Becoming Human: The Evolutionary Origins of Spiritual, Religious, and Moral Awareness” and “Brain, Mind, and Emergence.”

In addition to teaching at Stanford, he has also worked with NASA on projects in astrobiology and was a member of the Chemical and Biological Warfare Working group at the Center for International Security and Cooperation. From 2002-2009 Dr. Hurlbut served on the President’s Council on Bioethics. He is the author of “Altered Nuclear Transfer” (2005, Stem Cell Reviews) a proposed technological solution to the moral controversy over embryonic stem cell research.

Dr. Hurlbut serves as a Steering Committee Member of the Templeton Religion Trust.

Are Science and Religion Compatible? | Fr. Michael Dodds, OP Feb 15, 2019

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This lecture was given by Fr. Michael Dodds, O.P. for our chapter at the University of Arizona on Jan 30th, 2019, and was co-sponsored by the Faith and Science Forum.

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Tolkien's Perilous Beauty | Prof. David O'Connor Feb 14, 2019

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This event was hosted at Baylor University, on February 7th, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1

About the Speaker:

David K. O’Connor is a faculty member in the departments of Philosophy and of Classics at the University of Notre Dame. His teaching and writing focus on ancient philosophy, aesthetics, ethics and politics, and philosophy of religion. Dr. O’Connor is an acclaimed teacher and lecturer. His online lectures on love and sexuality have reached a wide international audience, and are the basis of his two recent books, Love is Barefoot Philosophy (in Chinese translation, 2014) and Plato’s Bedroom: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Love(2015). He has also published extensively on the relation between philosophy, art, and literature, in both the ancient and the modern world.

The Need for Catholic Intellectuals Today | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. Feb 13, 2019

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This talk was given on February 7th, 2018 at St. Saviour's Church, Dublin. For more information about upcoming TI events in North America visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

For Europe, visit: angelicum.it/thomistic-institute/thomistic-events/

Speaker Bio:

Fr. Thomas Joseph 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.

Being Religious in a Post-Medieval World: Spinoza, Paschal and Thomas | Prof. F. C. Bauerschmidt Feb 12, 2019

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This lecture was offered at Duke University on January 24, 2019. For more info about upcoming TI Events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

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Dr. Frederick C. Bauerschmidt is Professor of Theology at Loyola University Maryland and a deacon of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. He has published a book on the theology of Thomas Aquinas and the Christian mystical tradition, as well as numerous articles on Catholic life and thought.

When is Religious Belief Irrational? On the Harmony of Faith and Reason | Fr. Thomas Joseph White OP Feb 11, 2019

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This lecture was offered at University College Dublin on February 6th, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events in North America visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

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Christianity in the Public Square | R.R. Reno Feb 08, 2019

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This lecture was given for our UVA chapter on February 7th, 2019, and was co-sponsored with the St. Anselm Institute for Catholic Thought.

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About the Speaker:

R. R. Reno is the editor of First Things magazine. He was formerly a professor of theology and ethics at Creighton University. He is the author of several books including Fighting the Noonday Devil, a theological commentary on the Book of Genesis in the Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible series. His work ranges widely in systematic and moral theology, as well as in controverted questions of biblical interpretation.

"Late Have I Loved You" - Augustine & Thomas on Grace & Conversion | Paige Hochschild Feb 06, 2019

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This lecture was offered on Feb. 5th, 2019 at Brown University. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events

Speaker Bio:

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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