The Ignatian Scholars Corps lectures are not just one-time events, only accessible to hosting institutions. In order to provide further access to the intellectual heritage of the Judaeo-Christian tradition, the Ignatian Scholar Corps lectures are recorded and can be accessed by anyone free of charge.
All past lectures can be found at the Ignatian Scholars Corps YouTube channel.
Professor Eleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. Her books include Aquinas (2003), Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (2010), Atonement (2018), The Image of God. The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Mourning (2022), and Grains of Wheat: Suffering and Biblical Narratives (2025).
Giving the inaugural Ignatian Scholars Corps lecture, Dr. Stump presents a nine-part lecture series on the thought of Thomas Aquinas. This series covers many of the topics of Classical Theism on which she has published extensively. These topics include the Divine attributes of God such as God's Simplicity and God's Eternity. She also lectures on Aquinas's view of free will, ethics, the Incarnation, and Atonement.
This Ignatian Scholars Corps lecture series will be of interest to anyone curious in Judaeo-Christian religion. In particular, this lecture series will engage anyone interested in Classical Theism, the thought of Thomas Aquinas, or the Philosophy of Religion.
Rev. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. is the Rector Magnificus of the Angelicum in Rome and the author of many books and articles, including The Incarnate Lord, A Thomistic Study in Christology (CUA, 2015), The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism (CUA, 2017), and The Trinity: On the Nature and Mystery of the One God (CUA, 2022), and Contemplation and the Cross: A Catholic Introduction to the Spiritual Life (CUA, 2025).
Fr. White gives a four part lecture series on Thomas Aquinas's view of grace. His lectures begin with introduction of Aquinas's view of grace, followed by the essence of grace and the divisions of grace. His fourth and final lecture covers the purpose and fruit of grace, including a look at the five states of grace.
This Ignatian Scholars Corps lecture series will be of interest to anyone concerned about the many questions concerning God's grace. Fr. White discusses grace in relation to such topics as: total depravity, Pelagianism, grace and human nature, grace and the sacraments, justification, sanctification, and grace and free will.
Professor Judith Wolfe is Professor of Philosophical Theology in the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews. Her previous books include Heidegger’s Eschatology (Oxford University Press 2013), Heidegger and Theology (T&T Clark 2014), C.S. Lewis and His Circle (ed. with R. White and B. Wolfe, Oxford University Press 2015), the Oxford Handbook of Nineteenth-Century Christian Thought (ed. with J. Rasmussen and J. Zachhuber, Oxford University Press 2017), and The Theological Imagination: Perception and Interpretation in Life, Art, and Faith (Cambridge University Press 2025).
Dr. Wolfe gives a four part lecture series on Eschatology. Her lectures cover an introduction to the four last things: death, judgement, heaven, and hell, showing why eschatology is important for how we navigate this world. She presents the shifting historical perspectives on eschatology both prior to the Christian tradition and throughout the tradition. Her final lecture focuses on contemporary secular versions of eschatology.
This Ignatian Scholars Corps lecture series will be of interest to anyone hoping to deepen their understanding of the afterlife and eschatology according to the Christian tradition.
Professor Michael Gorman is Ordinary Professor at Catholic University of America in the School of Philosophy. He is the author of Aquinas on the Metaphysics of the Hypostatic Union (Cambridge, 2017), A Contemporary Introduction to Thomistic Metaphysics (CUA, 2024), and nearly forty scholarly articles.
Dr. Gorman presents an overview of Thomistic metaphysics. He begins with two lectures discussing basic metaphysical distinctions such as substance, accidents, relations, and the problem of universals. In his third lecture, he presents on the complicated topic of modality. The final lecture explores God as first principle and how this idea connects to the larger system of metaphysics already explored.
This Ignatian Scholars Corps lecture series will be of interest to anyone seeking an understanding of God, God's relation to the world, and the very foundations of reality.
Professor John W. Peck, S.J. is a Jesuit priest of the USA East Province. After completing his PhD at the University of Notre Dame (dissertation: Powered Up: Substantial Unity and Upward Determination), he joined the Philosophy Department at Saint Louis University in August of 2021. His research interests lie in metaphysics, especially the metaphysics of material objects, the philosophy of religion, and medieval philosophy, particularly that of Aquinas.
Fr. Peck presents four lectures on the metaphysics of the Eucharist. His first three lectures discuss the contrasts between the views of Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus, especially with respect to the metaphysics of transubstantiation and sacramental causation. His final lecture presents the problems posed by separated accidents, and concludes with a discussion of various solutions to those problems.
This Ignatian Scholars Corps lecture series will be of interest to anyone curious in the metaphysics of Medieval philosophers, contemporary metaphysics, and the sacrament of the Eucharist.
Professor Eleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. Her books include Aquinas (2003), Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (2010), Atonement (2018), The Image of God. The Problem of Evil and the Problem of Mourning (2022), and Grains of Wheat: Suffering and Biblical Narratives (2025).
Dr. Stump presents on two of the attributes of the God of classical theism: simplicity and eternity. In her third lecture, she presents on the logic of Christ's Incarnation. Her final lecture covers the Thomistic view of human nature as being in the Image of God.
This Ignatian Scholars Corps lecture series will be of interest to anyone curious about Christology, God's attributes, and human nature.
Professor Patrick Zoll is Professor of Metaphysics at the Munich School of Philosophy. He studied philosophy and theology in Munich, Madrid, and Bonn and was a postdoctoral fellow at Saint Louis University, MO. His most recent publications include Beyond Classical Liberalism: Freedom and the Good, Ed., with James Dominic Rooney (Routledge, 2024), What It Is to Exist: The Contribution of Thomas Aquinas’s View to the Contemporary Debate (De Gruyter, 2022), Perfektionistischer Liberalismus: Warum Neutralität ein falsches Ideal in der Politikbegründung ist (Karl Alber Verlag, 2016). He has published in journals such as Faith and Philosophy, Nova et vetera, European Journal for the Study of Thomas Aquinas, and Agatheos: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion.
Fr. Zoll presents a four-part lecture series on divine simplicity in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. This Ignatian Scholars Corps lecture series will be of interest to anyone curious in Judaeo-Christian religion. In particular, this lecture series will engage anyone interested in human flourishing, the divine attributes, and what we can know about God, according to the thought of Thomas Aquinas.
Professor Timothy J. Pawl is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas and the author of many books and articles, including In Defense of Conciliar Christology (Oxford University Press, 2016), In Defense of Extended Conciliar Christology (OUP, 2019), The Incarnation (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and Jesus and the Genome (Cambridge University Press, 2024, coauthored with Michael Peterson and Ben Brammell).
Dr. Pawl gives a four-part lecture series on moral thought in the work of Thomas Aquinas. He discusses the cardinal virtues, the cultivation of virtue, and the seven deadly sins. The contents of this series will be of special interest to those interested in issues of moral psychology, in addition to having great practical import for anyone pursuing the virtuous life.
Fr. James Dominic Rooney, OP, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), a fellow of the Angelicum Thomistic Institute (Rome, Italy), and research fellow of the HKBU Centre for Sino-Christian Studies. A Dominican Friar of the Province of St. Albert the Great (Chicago, IL), he works primarily in metaphysics, medieval philosophy, and Chinese philosophy. He also has significant research interests in philosophy of religion and political philosophy. He has written Material Objects in Confucian and Aristotelian Metaphysics (Bloomsbury, 2022), Beyond Classical Liberalism: Freedom and the Good (2024, co-edited with Patrick Zoll, Routledge), Not a Hope in Hell (2024, Routledge), and Whoever Hears You Hears Me: Dogmatic Authority as Testimony (2025, Routledge).
Fr. James Dominic Rooney gives a three-part lecture series on the Thomistic framework and comparisons between it and (Neo-)Confucianism. The first lecture provides an introduction to the basic metaphysical framework employed by Thomas Aquinas. The second lecture introduces Aquinas' basic ethical framework and situates Aquinas's ethics in the wider theological scope of Aquinas' project. The third and final lecture discusses the striking similarities between central claims in the writings of Neo-Confucian authors and claims made by exemplar theist such as Thomas Aquinas.
Fr. James Dominic Rooney, OP, is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU), a fellow of the Angelicum Thomistic Institute (Rome, Italy), and research fellow of the HKBU Centre for Sino-Christian Studies. A Dominican Friar of the Province of St. Albert the Great (Chicago, IL), he works primarily in metaphysics, medieval philosophy, and Chinese philosophy. He also has significant research interests in philosophy of religion and political philosophy. He has written Material Objects in Confucian and Aristotelian Metaphysics (Bloomsbury, 2022), Beyond Classical Liberalism: Freedom and the Good (2024, co-edited with Patrick Zoll, Routledge), Not a Hope in Hell (2024, Routledge), and Whoever Hears You Hears Me: Dogmatic Authority as Testimony (2025, Routledge).
Fr. James Dominic Rooney gives a lecture on Thomas Aquinas on God's existence and nature. In the first part of the lecture, he gives a thorough exposition of Aquinas' proofs for God's existence, famously known as Aquinas' Five Ways. In the second part of the lecture, he discusses how these proofs provide a basis for reasoning about God's attributes.
Tobias Hoffmann received his PhD in philosophy in 1999 in Fribourg (Switzerland). He was a professor (Assistant, Associate, Full) at the Catholic University of America from 2001 to 2021. Since 2021, he has been Professor of Medieval Philosophy at Sorbonne Université, Paris. His research focuses on thirteenth and early fourteenth-century ethics and metaphysics in the Latin West. His most recent book is Free Will and the Rebel Angels in Medieval Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2021). He is president of the Société Internationale pour l’Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale and director of the Centre Pierre Abélard. He is also scientific counselor of the Humanities and Social Sciences Department at the French National Research Agency (ANR).
Dr. Hoffman gives a four-part lecture series on Practical wisdom and specifically, practical wisdom in Thomas Aquinas. For Aristotle, practical wisdom is what enables us to make decisions about life as a whole, a capacity that presupposes that our emotions are well ordered. Thomas is an attentive reader of Aristotle and incorporates much of Aristotle’s theory into his own account of prudence, enriching it with elements borrowed from Stoicism and incorporating it into his theory of natural law. Unlike some of his contemporaries, Aquinas has a keen understanding of the importance that Aristotle’s notion of prudence is a single habitus for all aspects of life, hence for all the moral virtues.