Events
The Seven Deadly Sins
A lecture by Prof. Timothy J. Pawl (University of St. Thomas)
When:
April 16, 2026 | 7:00 PM CDT
Chapter:
Iowa State University
Location:
SICTR 0114
This lecture is free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required.
About the speaker:
Timothy J. Pawl is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and holds a Ph.D. from Saint Louis University in philosophy, with specializations in Thomistic philosophy, analytic theology, and virtue theory.
His books include In Defense of Conciliar Christology (Oxford, 2016), In Defense of Extended Conciliar Christology (Oxford, 2019), The Incarnation (Cambridge, 2020), and Jesus and the Genome: The Intersection of Christology and Biology (Cambridge, 2024; co-authored with Philosopher of Science, Dr. Michael Peterson, and Evolutionary Biologist, Dr. Ben Brammell). He co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Christology with Michael Peterson (Cambridge, 2025).
In addition, he has published over fifty academic articles or book chapters in his areas of expertise and given more than 140 academic or popular-level talks or interviews about his work, including a series of interviews for the PBS show Closer to Truth. He is the husband of another philosopher, Faith Glavey Pawl, with whom he writes a Substack, Pawline Epistles, and the proud father of one son and four daughters.