Dominican House of Studies | Washington, D.C.
Join other students of the Thomistic Institute for an Intellectual Retreat!
Students will have the opportunity to attend talks about the relationship between neuroscience and the soul, participate in Mass, attend Eucharistic Adoration, pray the Divine Office with the Dominican community, and attend socials with students and friars throughout the weekend.
Thanks to the generosity of our benefactors, meals and housing will be provided free for accepted applicants. Limited travel scholarships are available upon request.
Schedule:
Begins with check-in from 3:00 - 4:00 pm on Friday, December 5
Concludes with check-out at 1:30 pm on Sunday, December 7
Speakers:
Prof. William Hurlbut (Standford University) is a physician and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Neurobiology at Stanford University Medical Center. After receiving his undergraduate and medical training at Stanford, he completed postdoctoral studies in theology and medical ethics, studying with Robert Hamerton-Kelly, the Dean of the Chapel at Stanford, and subsequently with the Rev. Louis Bouyer of the Institut Catholique de Paris.
His primary areas of interest involve the ethical issues associated with advancing biomedical technology, the biological basis of moral awareness, and studies in the integration of theology and philosophy of biology. He was instrumental in establishing the first course in biomedical ethics at Stanford Medical Center and subsequently taught bioethics to over six thousand Stanford undergraduate students in the Program in Human Biology.
Fr. James Dominic Brent, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies)is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Chaplain to Commuter Students at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington DC. 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 on “Thomas Aquinas” in the Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology.
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Questions? Contact Ms. Bridget Arbuckle at barbuckle@dhs.edu.