Thomistic lectures for patient, serious listeners.
Angelicum Thomistic Institute presents formal lectures, panels, and conference sessions rooted in Thomas Aquinas and the Catholic intellectual tradition. Recent episodes move from Jacques Maritain's artists, editors, politics, and doctrine to Thomistic psychology, posthuman technology, and bodily resurrection.
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Angelicum Thomistic Institute is a large archive of lectures, panels, and conference sessions devoted to Thomas Aquinas and the wider Catholic intellectual tradition. It sounds less like a host-led interview show than a preserved academic room. Speakers are introduced with institutional care. Arguments unfold by way of texts, distinctions, historical setting, and theological consequence. Recent episodes show the breadth of that method. Several sessions focus on Jacques Maritain, not as a loose inspirational figure, but as a thinker whose artistic friendships, Italian reception, political relevance, and doctrinal legacy require patient reconstruction. The Maritain material moves through named institutions, scholarly committees, correspondence, editors, ambassadors, study circles, and Roman settings. It often treats intellectual history as something embedded in archives, conferences, embassies, universities, and theological debates. Other episodes widen the frame. A Spanish lecture on Thomistic psychology asks why a thirteenth-century author remains useful for thinking about passions, emotions, science, law, medicine, and contemporary psychological vocabulary. An English lecture on posthuman perspectives begins with Neuralink and Elon Musk, then places brain chips, therapeutic healing, and human enhancement inside a Thomistic moral and anthropological framework. Another talk on the world to come reads Scripture, Augustine, Paul, flesh, spiritual body, soulish body, and resurrection as part of one disciplined account of human life after death. The show is demanding. It assumes tolerance for untranslated names, technical terms, long sentences, and the slow preparation of premises before conclusions arrive. That slowness is part of its value. The episodes are not trying to make Catholic theology feel frictionless. They preserve the labor of thinking through doctrine, metaphysics, history, psychology, and technology with academic seriousness. The tone can be dry, occasionally warm, and sometimes relieved by a small lecture-room joke, but it remains formal. For listeners seeking Catholic thought at the level of a colloquium, seminar, or university lecture, Angelicum Thomistic Institute offers a unusually direct path into the sources, questions, and methods of the Thomistic tradition.
Made for: The show is for listeners comfortable with academic Catholic theology, intellectual history, and philosophical argument. It especially suits those who want Aquinas, Maritain, Augustine, psychology, politics, and technology treated with scholarly patience.
What sets it apart: Its strength is the preserved lecture format: multilingual, citation-minded, institutionally grounded, and willing to let complex arguments remain complex. Few religion feeds give this much room to Thomistic method across archives, doctrine, science, and contemporary technological questions.
The Angelicum Thomistic Institute encourages the study of Thomas Aquinas and the Thomistic tradition as a living voice and inspiration for Catholic theology and philosophy. For more information about the Institute's programs or upcoming events please visit our website: https://angelicum.it/thomistic-institute/
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Academic lectures make Thomistic reasoning legible through theology, intellectual history and careful engagement with science, psychology and human nature.
Angelicum Thomistic Institute turns academic lectures into sustained encounters with theology, philosophy and history. Speakers define their terms, work carefully through inherited arguments and test those arguments against present questions.
Aquinas meets Descartes, evolution, diamonds, and the resurrected body, with the footnotes mentally attached.
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A patient theological review of whether Adam, evolution, and original sin can still share the same frame.
Original sin becomes the pressure point for a careful theological test: what happens to Adam and Eve, Eden, and a real first disobedience once evolutionary accounts of human origins enter the room?
Resurrection presented as the final healing of embodied human life.
Resurrection is treated as the fulfillment of Christ's healing work. Jesus points John's disciples to signs already underway: sight restored, the lame walking, the dead raised, and good news brought to the poor.
A dense but rewarding account of Maritain's uneasy Roman assignment and the archives it leaves behind.
This account reads Maritain's Roman years through diplomacy, institutional suspicion, and cultural reach: how a Catholic philosopher came to represent France near the Holy See, why that appointment unsettled parts of the Curia, and what it meant to promote French culture,…
A close reading of species, miracles, and when the master's view can be revised.
This talk traces three linked questions with a clear line of argument: how a new species comes to be, what makes a miracle, and when the master's view should be revised.
A careful Thomistic episode gives the diamond a surprisingly useful role in thinking about science and nature.
The episode begins with a 1935 Angelicum lecture on science and philosophy in St. Albert the Great, then settles into a careful account of how science, philosophy, mathematics, and the natural world can be held together.
A Thomistic case for Jesus' celibacy, built around chastity, desire, and the will.
The episode turns a provocative question about whether Jesus married and had children into a tighter reflection on the Incarnation, freedom, and chastity.
A clear Thomistic discussion of passions, education, Descartes, and the limits of empirical virtue research.
The episode centers the passions within a Thomistic account of human psychology, treating feeling as neither directly obedient to the will nor as raw material for reason to manage from above.
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Reformed apologetics with a sharp public edge.
Applied theology without easy exits.
Biblical doctrine with coffee-table clarity.
Theology under pressure, claims under scrutiny.
Martín Echavarría presents a lecture on Thomistic psychology and the passions, comparing the thought of Thomas Aquinas with modern psychological theories.
Paul Gondreau addresses whether Jesus was married with children, concluding with a theological no.
This episode is a panel discussion at an academic colloquium exploring the relationship between philosopher Jacques Maritain and various artists, featuring presentations on topics like Maritain's correspondence with Gino Severini.
This episode explores the political relevance of Jacques Maritain's Integral Humanism during his post-war period, examining its impact on Christian democracy and intellectual history.
This episode explores Thomistic psychology and the passions through the lens of Saint Thomas Aquinas, connecting 13th-century philosophical insights to contemporary psychological concepts and their applications in various fields.
This episode features Professor Philippe Chenot discussing the Italian editors of Jacques Maritain, with insights into his academic background and research on topics like the Second Vatican Council and Pius XII.
This episode discusses Jacques Maritain's 1947 conference on Saint Thomas and its impact, particularly through the perspective of Père Cotier, who later became a private theologian for Pope John Paul II.
This episode introduces a conference in Rome commemorating the 50th anniversary of philosopher Jacques Maritain's death, organized through collaboration with multiple academic and cultural institutions.
The speaker thanks his hosts and turns to divine action and evolution.
The lecture opens with Jesus' healing signs as evidence of his messianic mission.
The speaker begins by placing his lecture at the Angelicum, recalling Father Onesito Fernandez Alonso's 1935 address on science and philosophy according to St.
The morning session begins the study day by framing Jacques Maritain's Roman work as one of gratitude, memory, and continued archival inquiry.
This episode explores the ethical and theological implications of Neuralink's brain chip technology and Elon Musk's alignment with transhumanist ideals.
Santiago Sanz Sánchez argues that original sin is still a live doctrinal question, not a relic, and he frames it with Pope Francis’s line that "we are all sinners." He cites Augustine, Irenaeus, and Alejandro de Villa Almonte to contrast reformulation proposals with the Church’s long-standing teaching on Adam, Eve, and the fall.
This episode explores the philosophical debate between Thomas Aquinas and Hervaeus Natalis on the first and proper object of the intellect, drawing on Aristotle's De Anima to discuss the limitations of sensory perception compared to intellectual thought.
Stephen Ogden discusses his defense of medieval Muslim philosophers like Avicenna against Aquinas' criticisms, focusing on their differing views on the intellect and epistemology.
This episode explores whether science and religion can coexist in the modern world through a moderated discussion examining historical and philosophical assumptions about their relationship.