What Can You Pray For?

This lecture was given on January 28, 2022 at the Dominican House of Studies as part of "Thomas Aquinas on Prayer, An Intellectual Retreat." The handout for this lecture can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/2p8k24zu. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Adam Eitel is on the Yale Divinity School faculty as Assistant Professor of Ethics. Dr. Eitel focuses his research and teaching on the history of Christian moral thought, contemporary social ethics and criticism, and modern religious thought. Dr. Eitel has roughly a dozen books, chapters, edited volumes, and articles published or in progress. These include an ethical analysis of drone strikes and a theological account of domination. His current book project explores the role of love in the moral theology of Thomas Aquinas. A 2004 Baylor University graduate and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Fribourg, Dr. Eitel received his M.Div. and Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary, completing the latter in 2015.