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Martyrs, Bishops, and Emperors | Prof. Thomas Clemmons
This lecture was given on June 13, 2022 at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. as part of The Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship: "The City of God in Modernity: Culture and Ecclesiology."
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About the speaker:
Thomas Clemmons, a native of South Florida, is assistant professor of theology in Church History at the Catholic University of America. Dr. Clemmons joined the STRS faculty in 2016 after completing his Ph.D. in the History of Christianity from Notre Dame, where he focused on Latin Patristics, early medieval theology, and Augustine. He also holds an M.A. in Early Christianity from Notre Dame and an M.T.S. from Vanderbilt. Dr. Clemmons’s teaching and research interest focus on Latin Patristics, Augustine, particularly his thought through the Confessions and his anti-Manichaean works, Late Antiquity, especially in North Africa, and the medieval reception of Augustine. -
Penitential Associations: The Origins of Civic Democracy | Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P.
Fr. Thompson's slides are available here: https://tinyurl.com/5n6ff7ua
This lecture was given on June 13, 2022 at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. as part of The Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship: "The City of God in Modernity: Culture and Ecclesiology."
For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org.
About the speaker:
Fr. Augustine Thompson, O.P. is a Catholic priest of the Order of Preachers and currently serves as Praeses (Director) of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies at the University of Toronto in Canada
and Professor of History at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkleley, CA. He holds a Ph.D in medieval history from the University of California. Until 2009, he was Professor of Religious Studies and History at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. His books and publications focus on medieval Italy and medieval religious history. -
Off-Campus Conversations, Ep. 002: Dr. George Corbett on Beauty in the Catholic Tradition
Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Dr. George Corbett about his latest Thomistic Institute lecture, "Music in the Catholic Tradition."
The Thomistic Institute Podcast - Off-Campus Conversations with Fr. Gregory Pine, Ep. 002: Dr. George Corbett on Beauty in the Catholic Tradition
You can listen to the original lecture here: https://soundcloud.com/thomisticinstitute/music-in-the-catholic-tradition-dr-george-corbett
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About the speaker:
Dr George Corbett joined the School of Divinity in 2015. Previously, he held positions as Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy, Trinity College, and affiliated lecturer in Italian, University of Cambridge, where he also taught English literature and theology. He received his BA (double first), MPhil (distinction), and PhD (AHRC-funded) from the University of Cambridge. He has also studied in Pisa (as an Erasmus-Socrates exchange scholar at La Scuola Normale Superiore), Rome (Institutum Pontificium Alterioris Latinitatis), and Montella (Vivarium Novum)
Dr Corbett directs CEPHAS (a Thomistic Centre for Philosophy and Scholastic Theology), TheoArtistry (a project linking up theologians and artists), and is leading on a new collaborative MLitt in Sacred Music. -
Music in the Catholic Tradition | Dr. George Corbett
This lecture was given on April 21, 2022 at The Christian Heritage Centre at Stonyhurst as part of "Catholicism and the Arts: An Intellectual Retreat."
For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org.
About the speaker:
Dr George Corbett joined the School of Divinity in 2015. Previously, he held positions as Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy, Trinity College, and affiliated lecturer in Italian, University of Cambridge, where he also taught English literature and theology. He received his BA (double first), MPhil (distinction), and PhD (AHRC-funded) from the University of Cambridge. He has also studied in Pisa (as an Erasmus-Socrates exchange scholar at La Scuola Normale Superiore), Rome (Institutum Pontificium Alterioris Latinitatis), and Montella (Vivarium Novum).
Dr Corbett directs CEPHAS (a Thomistic Centre for Philosophy and Scholastic Theology), TheoArtistry (a project linking up theologians and artists), and is leading on a new collaborative MLitt in Sacred Music. -
The Way of Beauty: Sacred Art and Architecture | Fr. Michael Lang
This lecture was given on April 21, 2022 at The Christian Heritage Centre at Stonyhurst as part of "Catholicism and the Arts: An Intellectual Retreat."
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About the speaker:
Fr Uwe Michael Lang, a native of Nuremberg, Germany, is a priest of the Oratory of St Philip Neri in London. He holds a doctorate in theology from the University of Oxford and teaches Church History at Mater Ecclesiae College, St Mary’s University, Twickenham, and at Allen Hall Seminary, London. He is an Associate Staff Member at the Maryvale Institute, Birmingham, and on the Visiting Faculty of the Liturgical Institute in Mundelein, Illinois. He is the Editor of Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal.
From 2008 to 2012 he was a staff member of Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, and from 2008 to 2013 he was a Consultor to the Office for the Liturgical Celebrations of the Supreme Pontiff. In the academic year 2011/2012, he taught as Professore incaricato for history of Christian worship and hagiography at the Pontifical Institute for Christian Archaeology in Rome -
Tolkien on the Nature and Purpose of Christian Art | Prof. Giuseppe Pezzini
View Prof. Pezzini's handout here: https://tinyurl.com/342z96ec
This lecture was given on April 21, 2022 at The Christian Heritage Centre at Stonyhurst as part of "Catholicism and the Arts: An Intellectual Retreat."
For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org.
About the speaker:
Prof. Pezzini returned to Oxford in 2021, after five beautiful years in St Andrews (2016–2021). He studied at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa (2003–2008) and the University of Oxford (D.Phil. 2012). He held research fellowships at Magdalen College Oxford (2013–2015) and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2016). From 2010 to 2013 he worked as Assistant Editor for the Oxford Dictionary of Medieval Latin.