Angelicum Thomistic Institute

This talk was offered on February 15th, 2019. For more info about upcoming TI events in North America check out, thomisticinstitute.org/events-1/ For events in Europe, visit: angelicum.it/thomistic-institute/thomistic-events/ Speaker Bio: Thomas Joseph White, O.P., 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. He is the author of 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 has edited several books, and is co-editor of the theological journal Nova et Vetera (English edition). In 2011 he was appointed an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. He is currently teaching at the Angelicum in Rome and is the Director of the Thomistic Institute at the Angelcum.

This lecture was offered at St. Saviour’s Priory, Dublin on February 7th, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events in North American 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.

This lecture was offered at University College Dublin on February 6th, 2019. For more information about upcoming TI events in North American 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.

Dr. Andrew Davison is an Anglican canon of St Albans Cathedral in the UK. He is is the Starbridge Lecturer in Theology and Natural Sciences at Cambridge. Before he moved into theology he was a scientist, and he holds undergraduate degrees and doctorates in both natural science (Merton College, Oxford) and theology (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge). Andrew taught Christian doctrine at Oxford and Cambridge before his current appointment. This talk explorates points of contact between Thomistic thought and modern science and evolutionary theory, and was presented as part of the Thomistic Institute Conference "The Spiritual Soul and Contemporary Neuroscience: A Thomistic Perspective" held at the Angelicum University.

This talk was given as part of the conference on December 1, 2018 on "The Spiritual Soul and Contemporary Neuroscience: A Thomistic Perspective". Fr. Ezra Sullivan, OP, is a Dominican friar of the Province of St Joseph and professor of Moral Theology and at the Angelicum. He has published articles and reviews on both moral theology and ecclesiastical history in such journals as Linacre Quarterly, Nova et Vetera, and Logos Journal.

Dr. Daniel DeHaan delivered this talk as part of the Thomistic Institute Conference on The Spiritual Soul and Contemporary Neuroscience: a Thomistic Perspective. He addressed the topic “Understanding The Human Person - Contemporary Neuroscience And The Rational Soul”. Dr. DeHaan 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. 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.

This talk was given as part of the Thomistic Institute Conference "The Spiritual Soul and Contemporary Neuroscience" held at the Angelicum in Rome on 1 December 2018. Dr. Feser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College, and has also been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University. He received a PhD in philosophy from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the author of multiple books, including Philosophy of Mind (A Beginner's Guide), The Last Superstition: A Refutation of the New Atheism, Aquinas (A Beginner's Guide), Scholastic Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, Neo-Scholastic Essays, and Five Proofs for the Existence of God.

Father Thomas Joseph delivered the first talk to the Thomistic Institute Chapter in Lisbon, Portugal on the question "What is Happiness According to Saint Thomas Aquinas?"

This lecture was given at the inaugural 2018-2019 Thomistic Institute Conference at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas (Angelicum in Rome. Walter Senner, OP is a German Dominican theologian whose research focuses include the history of the Order, Albertus Magnus, Thomas Aquinas, Johannes von Sterngassen and Meister Eckhart. He was from 1998 to 2005 a member of the Pontifical Commissio Leonina to the edition of the Opera of Thomas Aquinas. In 2007 he was appointed professor at the Angelicum in Rome and was the director of the Thomistic institute there from 2008 to 2018. He is a member of the Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale and the Görres Society.

This talk, "Memory And Conversion - Thomistic Ressourcement And Productive Non - Contemporaneity" was delivered at the inaugural 2018-2019 conference for the Thomistic Institute at the Angelicum in Rome. Richard Schenk, OP is a Dominican originally from California, and a member of the Holy Name Province (Berkeley). From 1982 to 1985 he was a research assistant at Leo Scheffczyk at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. He has published extensively on the theological anthropology of Thomas Aquinas, often in comparison with the works of Martin Heidegger and Karl Rahner. From 2003 to 2005, he also served as director of the Faith and Culture (ICF) Intercultural Forum for Studies (Washington, DC) in Washington, D.C. From 2011-2014 he was the president of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. Currently he is honorary professor at the University of Freiburg in the field of Christian philosophy of religion.