Thomistic Institute

The Thomistic Institute and St. Charles Catholic Church present a lecture by Fr. Reginald Lynch, O.P. of the Dominican House of Studies titled “Image and Likeness: Personhood and Participation in the Life of the Trinity.”

St. Charles Catholic Church | 3304 Washington Blvd, Arlington, VA 22201

Monday, Oct. 4

7:00 PM

About the speaker

Fr. Reginald Lynch, O.P. is the Assistant Director of the Thomistic Institute. Born in New Hampshire, Fr. Lynch entered the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 2007, and was ordained a priest in 2013. After ordination, he served at St. Patrick Parish in Columbus, Ohio and taught at the Pontifical College Josephinum, before going on to complete a PhD in theology at the University of Notre Dame, with a major concentration in medieval theology and minor concentrations in patristics and philosophical theology. He has written on a variety of topics in sacramental, systematic and historical theology in journals like The Thomist and Nova et Vetera. His book, The Cleansing of the Heart: The Sacraments as Instrumental Causes in the Thomistic Tradition (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2017) received the Charles Cardinal Journet Prize in 2018. Currently, he is working on a book on the reception of Aquinas’ Eucharistic theology in the early modern period.