The Dominican House of Studies
Educating Preachers of Truth in Charity.
Catholic theology in the Thomistic tradition for Dominican students and all who are interested in serving the Church, evangelizing the world, and growing in virtue, wisdom, and holiness.
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Lay students, priests, seminarians, and consecrated religious are invited to study Thomistic theology with top-notch professors.
The mind is made to know the truth. The human being is most perfected in acts of knowledge and love.
Our patron St. Dominic founded the Order of Preachers over 800 years ago to preach and teach the truths of the Christian faith for the salvation of souls.
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Passing on the fruits of contemplation
For centuries, religious and laity have been formed in the sapiential wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas through the teaching of the Dominican Order. Our faculty was founded in 1834 as a studium generale in this great tradition, and in 1941, it was elevated to a Pontifical Faculty of Theology with a mission to serve the universal Church. At its heart, this mission begins with the contemplation of God, and it overflows into zealous study of God himself and of all things as created by Him.
“This is the ultimate perfection of the contemplative life, namely that the Divine truth be not only seen but also loved.”
STh II-II, q. 180, a. 7, ad. 1
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