The University of California, Berkeley

The Thomistic Institute at the University of California Berkeley presents a lecture by Fr. Michael Dodds, O.P. of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Berkeley, titled “Are Science and Faith Compatible?”

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Tuesday, Sept. 21

8:00 PM

The chapter will host a live, in-person viewing and discussion of the lecture at the Newman Center (2700 Dwight Way, Berkeley, CA 94704). In-person viewing is open to the public. Contact our chapter president, Francesca Battista (francescabattista@berkeley.edu) with any questions you may have.

About the speaker:

Michael J. Dodds, O.P., is Professor of Philosophy and Systematic Theology at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. After undergraduate studies at Seattle University, he entered the Order of Preachers in 1970 and was ordained in 1977. He then taught for three years at St. Mary’s College, Moraga, California, before doing his doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1986. He has served as Academic Dean of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Convener of the Theology Area at the Graduate Theological Union, and Regent of Studies and Vicar Provincial of the Western Dominican Province. He is the author of The Unchanging God of Love: Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Theology on Divine Immutability (2008), and Unlocking Divine Action: Contemporary Science and Thomas Aquinas (2012), both from The Catholic University of America Press.