Drawing from his most recent book God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide (Oxford, 2011), Professor Howard will explore some of the long-standing differences between the United States and Western Europe with respect to religion. With an eye on the present but taking a historical approach, he will argue that some of these differences […]
Join us for a Friday Conversation with Dr. Praveen Sethupathy and Dr. Richard Middleton. What better way to engage the historic conversation between science and faith than to feature thoughtful, renowned scholars—one a scientist and the other a theologian. Listen and join in as they discuss and examine the study of genetics and human origins […]
Tune in March 22 at 7pm EDT for our livestream of this event: Join us for a Veritas Forum dialogue between Dr. Miroslav Volf and Dr. Vijay Pendakur discussing truth, tolerance, and safe spaces. The Veritas Forum invites students and faculty to ask life's hardest questions. With a commitment to courageous discourse we put the […]
The debates about whether there are any immaterial entities are well-known. But not many people stop to ask the more fundamental question: What does it mean to be immaterial? What are we even asking about when we ask whether, e.g., our minds are immaterial or not? From spooky bodies to self-knowing boxes, this talk considers […]
The cogitative power is a comparatively little-known topic in Aquinas’s philosophical psychology. Yet it is of great importance, since it constitutes the bridge between the embodied external senses and the imagination, on the one hand, and the immaterial intellect and universal reason, on the other. Analyzing the cogitative takes us back to its origins in […]
