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Eating God: Can the Eucharist Really be Jesus? | Alexander Pruss Dec 31, 2018

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This lecture was offered at Baylor on November 14th, 2018. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

What Do the Saints Do for Eternity? The Activity of Heaven | Michael Root Dec 28, 2018

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This lecture was offered at NYU on November 10th, 2018. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

The hand out for this lecture is available at: tinyurl.com/yclptrzp

Artificial Intelligence and the Soul | Anselm Ramelow Dec 27, 2018

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This lecture was offered at Stanford on October 16th, 2018. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

Hell and the Mercy of God | Adrian Reimers Dec 26, 2018

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This lecture was offered at NYU on November 10th, 2018. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

The Thirst for Immortality and the Soul’s Need for Purgatory | Carol Zaleski Dec 21, 2018

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This lecture was offered at NYU on November 10th, 2018. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

The Human Soul and Neuroscience: Is Belief in the Soul Obsolete? | Daniel De Haan Dec 20, 2018

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This lecture was offered at the University of Arizona on November 7th, 2018. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

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Daniel De Haan is a Research Fellow in Natural Theology at the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion and the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford. Before coming to Oxford he was a postdoctoral fellow working on the neuroscience strand of the Templeton World Charity Foundation’s Theology, Philosophy of Religion, and the Sciences project at the University of Cambridge. He has a doctorate in philosophy from the Catholic University of Leuven and University of St Thomas in Texas. His research focuses on philosophical anthropology and the sciences, natural theology, and the thought of Thomas Aquinas.

What Can Philosophy Tell Us About Life after Death? | Prof. Mark Spencer Dec 19, 2018

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This lecture was offered at NYU on November 10th, 2018. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

The hand out for this lecture is available at: tinyurl.com/ycx2596r

Does Evolutionary Theory Disprove Christianity? | Fr. Michael Dodds OP Dec 18, 2018

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This lecture was given on November 5th, 2018 at UC Berkeley. For more information about upcoming TI events, check out: thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/

About the speaker:

Michael J. Dodds, O.P., is Professor of Philosophy and Systematic Theology at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. After undergraduate studies at Seattle University, he entered the Order of Preachers in 1970 and was ordained in 1977. He then taught for three years at St. Mary’s College, Moraga, California, before doing his doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1986. He has served as Academic Dean of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Convener of the Theology Area at the Graduate Theological Union, and Regent of Studies and Vicar Provincial of the Western Dominican Province. He is the author of The Unchanging God of Love: Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Theology on Divine Immutability (2008), and Unlocking Divine Action: Contemporary Science and Thomas Aquinas (2012), both from The Catholic University of America Press.

St.Thomas & the Meaning of Love: Human and Divine Friendship | Fr. Gregory Pine OP Dec 17, 2018

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This talk was offered as the second of a 2 part series at NYU on the "Wisdom of Aquinas." The first talk on "Love, Passion and Affection" is also available on SoundCloud: Thomisticinstitute – St-thomas-the-meaning-of-love-love-passion-affection-fr-gregory-pine-op

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

Speaker Bio:

Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. serves presently as Assistant Director of Campus Outreach for the Thomistic Institute. 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.

St. Thomas & the Meaning of Love: Love, Passion & Affection | Fr. Gregory Pine OP Dec 14, 2018

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This talk was offered as the first of a 2 part series at NYU on the "Wisdom of Aquinas." The second talk on "Human and Divine Friendship" is also available on SoundCloud.

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

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