Dominican House of Studies | Washington, D.C.
This retreat is open to all current university students. Travel scholarships are available.
Step away from the daily rush of life to pray and contemplate the Blessed Virgin Mary with the Thomistic Institute. The retreat will have seminars and discussions framed by the traditional elements of a retreat (Mass, adoration, the Divine Office, etc.).
Thanks to the generosity of our benefactors, meals and housing will be provided free for accepted applicants. Travel scholarships are available. Please contact Lauren (LFrawley@dhs.edu) to inquire.
Schedule:
Begins with check-in at 3:00 p.m. on Friday, December 8
Concludes with check-out at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, December 10
Speakers:
Fr. James Brent, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies) was born and raised in Michigan. He pursued his undergraduate and graduate studies in Philosophy, and completed his doctorate in Philosophy at Saint Louis University on the epistemic status of Christian beliefs according to Saint Thomas Aquinas. He has articles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Natural Theology, in the Oxford Handbook of Thomas Aquinas on “God’s Knowledge and Will”, and an article forthcoming on “Thomas Aquinas” in the Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology. He earned his STL from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, and was ordained a priest in the same year. He taught in the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America from 2010- 2014, and spent the year of 2014-2015 doing full time itinerant preaching on college campuses across the United States.
Prof. Joshua Benson (Catholic University of America) specializes in Medieval Theology. He has taught at The Catholic University of America since 2008 and served as Chair of the Department of Theology and Franciscan Studies at St. Bonaventure University from 2018-2020.
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Questions? Contact Ms. Lauren Frawley at lfrawley@dhs.edu.