Events
Thomistic Responses to the Problems of Evil and Divine Hiddenness
A lecture by Fr. Adrian Patrick McCaffery, O.P. (Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas)
When:
September 12, 2025 | 6:00 PM EDT
Location:
James Blair Hall 221
Chapter:
College of William and Mary
This lecture is free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required.
About the speaker:
Fr. Adrian Patrick McCaffery, O.P., is a friar of the Province of St. Albert the Great. He completed his doctorate in Philosophy in 2024 under Eleonore Stump at Saint Louis University, focusing on the metaphysics of God and Aquinas’s doctrine of divine simplicity. At present, he is a Professor of Philosophy at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome, where he teaches metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, aesthetics, and the classical languages. His research primarily engages Aquinas’s philosophical theology in dialogue with analytic philosophy, and he is also overseeing the collection of Fr. Lawrence Dewan’s complete essays for a multivolume set. In addition, he serves as an editor for the Angelicum journal.