Angelicum Thomistic Institute

This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute Conference "The Trinity and the Kenosis of Christ" held at the Angelicum in Rome on 21-22 February 2020. Christoph Schwöbel is professor of systematic theology and director of the Institute of Hermeneutics and Cultural Dialogue at the University of Tübingen; he assumes the 1643 Chair in Divinity at the University of St. Andrews in September 2018. Schwöbel previously taught at the Universities of Marburg, Kiel, and Heidelberg, as well as King’s College at the University of London. Schwöbel is a past president of Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft für Theologie, the association of theologians teaching in universities in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. He has many publications in both English and German, including Gott im Gespräch. Theologische Studien zur Gegenwartsdeutung (2011), Die Religion des Zauberers. Theologisches in den großen Romanen Thomas Manns (2008), Christlicher Glaube im Pluralismus. Studien zu einer Theologie der Kultur (2003), Gott in Beziehung (2002), and God: Action and Revelation (1992).

This lecture was given at Ave Maria University on February 8, 2020. Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., is the Director of the Thomistic Institute at the Angelicum and Professor of Theology. He did his doctoral studies at Oxford University. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2003. His research and teaching have focused particularly on topics related to Thomistic metaphysics and Christology as well as Roman Catholic-Reformed ecumenical dialogue. His books include Wisdom in the Face of Modernity: A Study in Thomistic Natural Theology (Sapientia Press, 2009), The Incarnate Lord, A Thomistic Study in Christology (The Catholic University of America Press, 2015) Exodus (Brazos Press, 2016), and The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism (The Catholic University of America Press, 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. In 2019 Fr. White was named a McDonald Agape Foundation Distinguished Scholar.

"Christ’s Kenosis: Biblical Exegesis, Christology, Metaphysics, and Trinitarian Theology in Saint Thomas Aquinas" This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute Conference "The Trinity and the Kenosis of Christ" held at the Angelicum in Rome on 21-22 February 2020. Fr. Gilles Emery, a Dominican priest of the Swiss province of Preachers, is professor of dogmatic theology at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He is an elected member of the International Theological Commission and the author of several books, including The Trinitarian Theology of Saint Thomas Aquinas and Trinity, Church, and the Human Person.

Authentic Development of Doctrine between Scylla and Charybdis | Reinhard Hütter by Angelicum Thomistic Institute

This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute Conference “What is development if doctrine? Aquinas and Newman“ held at the Angelicum in Rome on 7 December 2019. Dr Andrew Meszaros completed his BA in Philosophy and Theology at Boston College (2007). He completed Masters degrees at the University of Oxford (2009) and the Catholic University of Louvain/KU Leuven (2010), where he later completed his doctorate (2014). He teaches Systematic Theology in St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth.

This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute Conference “What is development if doctrine? Aquinas and Newman“ held at the Angelicum in Rome on 7 December 2019. Father Guy Mansini, OSB, a monk of Saint Meinrad Archabbey, teaches Christology and Ecclesiology. His articles, many of which have appeared in The Thomist, also touch on the theology of orders.

This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute Conference “What is development if doctrine? Aquinas and Newman“ held at the Angelicum in Rome on 7 December 2019. Father Ian Ker teaches theology at Oxford University, where he is a senior research fellow at Blackfriars, Oxford, and a member of the Faculty of Theology . He has taught both English literature and theology at universities in the UK and USA. Father Ker is generally regarded as the leading authority on Blessed John Henry Newman, on whom he has published the universally acknowledged definitive biography.

Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. - "How does the mystery of the Incarnation reveal the Trinity?"

This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute Conference "Thomas Aquinas on Creation and Nature" held at the Angelicum in Rome on 3-5 October 2019. Candace Vogler is the David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor of Philosophy and Professor in the College at the University of Chicago, and Principal Investigator on "Virtue, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life," a project funded by the John Templeton Foundation.

This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute Conference "Thomas Aquinas on Creation and Nature" held at the Angelicum in Rome on 3-5 October 2019. Dr. Eleonore Stump is The Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. She received a B.A. in classical languages from Grinnell College in 1969, a master’s degree from Harvard University in 1971 and a Ph.D. in medieval studies and medieval philosophy from Cornell University in 1975. She taught at Oberlin College, Virginia Tech and the University of Notre Dame before coming to Saint Louis University in 1992.