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Big Bang Cosmology and Christianity | .Karin Öberg by Angelicum Thomistic Institute

Does teleology prove the existence of God? | Mariusz Tabaczek O.P by Angelicum Thomistic Institute

Teleology, Providence, and Predestination | Andrew Pinsent by Angelicum Thomistic Institute

Love above Knowledge in Thomas Gallus | Boyd Taylor Coolman by Angelicum Thomistic Institute

Mystical Experience in St. Gregory Palamas | Marcus Plested by Angelicum Thomistic Institute

Theologia: Scientia secundum pietatem | Marianne Schlosser by Angelicum Thomistic Institute

This talk was given as part of the online Thomistic Institute Conference "Is Belief in God Reasonable? Aquinas' Summa Contra Gentiles in a Contemporary Context" in Rome on 4-5 December 2020. Clemens Cavallin began studies in Religious studies at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1988, and 1989 in Fine Art (painting) at Valand Academy, Gothenburg. In 1995, he graduated both with a bachelor degree in History of Religions (minor subjects Philosophy and Art history) and with a diploma in Fine Art (five years of study). The same year, he began studies in Sanskrit and enrolled at the Ph. D. program in History of religion at the University of Gothenburg with a focus on Asian religions. In 2002, he defended his Ph. D. thesis named On the Efficacy of Sacrifice, which investigated views on sacrifice in the brahmanas, which are Vedic texts from the first millennium B. C. Between 2003 and 2006, Clemens worked at the University of Bergen, Norway, as assistant professor in History of religions. After the period in Norway, he returned to the University of Gothenburg to take up a position with a focus on Asian religions.In 2013, Clemens published a book on the interiorization of rituals. During the fall semester 2013, Clemens taught at Haverford College in the US. And in 2020, he began teaching at Nord University in Bodø Norway

This talk was given as part of the online Thomistic Institute Conference "Is Belief in God Reasonable? Aquinas' Summa Contra Gentiles in a Contemporary Context" in Rome on 4-5 December 2020. Mats Wahlberg (Ph.D., Umeå University, 2010, Ph.D., Stellenbosch University, 2014) is docent and associate professor of systematic theology, and a member of the Academy of Catholic Theology. His interests include philosophical theology, the doctrine of revelation and the development of dogma, Catholic moral doctrine, theology and science (especially the theological implications of evolution), analytic theology, and the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. He is currently working on a research project about evolutionary theodicy funded by the John Templeton Foundation.

This talk was given as part of the online Thomistic Institute Conference "Is Belief in God Reasonable? Aquinas' Summa Contra Gentiles in a Contemporary Context" in Rome on 4-5 December 2020. John Haldane is a Scottish philosopher, commentator and broadcaster. He is a former papal adviser to the Vatican. He is credited with coining the term 'Analytical Thomism' and is himself a Thomist in the analytic tradition. Haldane is associated with The Veritas Forum and is the current chair of the Royal Institute of Philosophy.He has been a visiting lecturer in the School of Architecture of the University of Westminster, at the Medical School of the University of Dundee, at the University of Malta, at the Thomistic Institute at the University of Notre Dame, at the University of Aberdeen, at Denison University, at the University of St. Thomas, at The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, and the Institute for the Psychological Sciences. He held the Royden Davis Chair of Humanities at Georgetown University, and delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen in 2003–04, and the Joseph Lectures at the Gregorian University in Rome. He was appointed to the University of St Andrews in 1983 where he held a lectureship and a readership. He was subsequently University Professor in Philosophy from 1994-2015. From 1988 to 2000 and from 2002 to the present he has been Director of the University Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs. In addition, he has held fellowships at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Edinburgh, St John's College, Oxford, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University and at the Centre for the Study of Sculpture in Leeds, England. Since 2015, he has held the J. Newton Rayzor Sr. Distinguished Chair in Philosophy at Baylor University.

This talk was given as part of the online Thomistic Institute Conference "Is Belief in God Reasonable? Aquinas' Summa Contra Gentiles in a Contemporary Context" in Rome on 4-5 December 2020. Prof. Roger Pouivet is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Lorraine and is appointed in 2015 as a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is the former director of the Laboratoire d'histoire des sciences et de philosophie - Archives Henri Poincaré (UMR 7117, CNRS), of which he is still a member.