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 Recent News

Fr. Joseph Torchia, O.P., the editor-in-chief of the Pontifical Faculty's journal, The Thomist, has published a new book entitled Exploring Personhood: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Human Nature  (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). The book explores philosophical anthropology on its most foundational level, with a focus on the basic constituents of the unified self. The coverage of the work is broad in scope, moving from the Pre-Socratics to Postmodernism, with special attentiveness to the contributions of the Aristotelian/Thomistic tradition of inquiry

Biblical Theology

Fr. Stephen D. Ryan, O.P. worked with Ignatius Press to publish a new edition of a popular work on Biblical Theology by Fr. Dominique Barthélemy, O.P. entitled God and His Image: An Outline of Biblical Theology (2007).


The Syriac Bible

Fr. Ryan, O.P. presented a paper on the Syriac text of Ben Sira at the Society of Biblical Literature annual meeting and published an article on the Psalms in Syriac in a volume entitled The Peshitta: Its Use in Literature and Liturgy (Brill, 2006). His article on Psalm 22 in Syriac tradition was published by Gorgias Press in 2007. He is presently collaborating with The Rev. Dr. Robert J. Owens on a new translation of the Syriac version of the Book of Numbers for the international New Annotated English Translation of the Syriac Bible, which will be published by Brill (2010).

Tübingen University

In July of 2007, at a conference at the Ebhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Fr. Ryan presented a paper on the Hebrew speaking Assyrian official mentioned in the books of Isaiah and Ben Sira known as "the Rabshakeh." The conference, held in a former Augustinian Priory that has served since the Reformation as the site of the renowned Evangelisches Stift, focused on Biblical Figures in the Deuterocanonical Books of the Old Testament.

Revisiting the Rosary
by Br. Augustine Reisenauer, O.P.

The Prophet Isaiah
Professor Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, gave a guest lecture at the Pontifical Faculty on the Prophet Isaiah in the Church Fathers on September 24, 2007. The complete lecture is available in audio format


Fr. Joseph Alobaidi, O.P. His text, The Book of Daniel – The Commentary of R. Saadia Gaon: Edition and Translation was critically reviewed in Mitteilungen der St. Tikon Universitat in 2007.  As noted earlier, The Messiah in Isaiah 53: The Commentaries of Saadia Gaon, Salmon ben Yeruham, and Yefet ben Eli on Is. 52:13-53:12 was critically reviewed in 2005. 

Dr. Gregory LaNave
- “What Is Theology About?
A Bonaventurean View.” October 20, 2007
32nd Annual Patristic, Medieval, Renaissance Conference (PMR) at Villanova.

Br. Ezra Sullivan, O.P.
Exalting the Cross of Contradiction

Fr. Jordan Kelly, O.P.
A graduate of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception has been appointed to the Office of Evangelization in Chicago

Fr. Basil Cole, O.P.
"The Hidden Enemies of the Priesthood:  The Contribution of St. Thomas Aquinas"




Study Guide to the US Adult Catholic Catechism
recently published from Our Sunday Visitor
by:  Dr. Jem Sullivan

Fr. Joseph Alobaidi, O.P. His book, The Messiah in Isaiah 53: The Commentaries of Saadia Gaon, Salmon ben Yeruham, and Yefet ben Eli on Is. 52:13-53:12 was critically reviewed by Meira Polliack, University of Tel Aviv in the Journal of Theological Studies, April 2005.


Upcoming Events

ANALOGY OF BEING - April 4-6, 2008
This conference, sponsored in part by the Dominican House of Studies, will investigate issues raised by a famous 20th Century theological debate between Erich Przywara, S.J. and the Protestant theologian Karl Barth. Is there any 'natural' knowledge of God available to the human person, apart from Christian revelation, or is all knowledge of God given to human beings uniquely in Christ?

 

Recent Events

On May 7, 2008 Fr. Stephen Ryan, O.P. gave a talk on Jacob and Joseph at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Washington, DC. Fr. Ryan attended the annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Theologians held at Princeton Theological Seminary February 29-March 1, 2008 where he presented a response to a paper on Isaiah 6 and John 20 and participated in an Old Testament Colloquium at St. John's University in Collegeville, MN on February 1-3, 2008, where he was the respondent to a paper on Psalm 92. Fr. Ryan presented a paper entitled "Recent Research on the Origin and Significance of the Septuagint" at the regional meeting of the Catholic Biblical Association of America which took place at the Washington Theological Union on January 16, 2008. In January of 2009 this annual regional meeting will be hosted by the Pontifical Faculty in the new Academic Center and Theological Library.

Nov. 30th -  Dec 1st: The Human Experience - Thank you to everyone who helped to make the pre-screening of this powerful film such a great success.  We were impressed by the tremendous response to this film.  If you would still like to see the film, please visit the Grassroots Films website for a complete list of screening times and places.

All Saints' Vigil
October 31, 2007

Laying of the Cornerstone Ceremony and Mass of Installation
September 8, 2007
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Contemplation and Truth When Made in the Image of God: Aristotelian Reflections in Post-Modern Times
April 12, 2007
Fr. Kurt Pritzl, OP

Unlocking the Scriptures - The Ancient Art of Lectio Divina
March 27, 2007
Fr. Peter Fegan, OP

Mary's Scriptural Journey and The Rosary                                                  
March 20, 2007
Fr. John Langlois, OP

Understanding the Symbolic Language of the Book of Revelation
March 13 2007
Mary and the Victory Over Evil:  The Marian Role in the Restoration of the Image of God
March 8, 2007
Fr. John Corbett, OP

The Church's Scriptural Prayer - The Liturgy of the Hours
March 6, 2007
Fr. Kevin McGrath, OP

Charity's Knowledge: The Relationship Between Knowledge and Love in Aquinas' Account of Human Action
March 4, 2007
Fr. Michael Sherwin, OP
Listen to the lecture here

The Image of God in a Post-Genomic Age:  What can the Human Genome Project tell us about what it is to be a human being?
February 1, 2007
Fr. Nicanor Austriaco, OP

Jesus Christ – Fulfillment of the Promise of the Old Testament
February 27, 2007
Man and Woman, Created to be Worshippers
January 11, 2007
Fr. Joseph Alobaidi, OP
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