University of Rochester

The Thomistic Institute at the University of Rochester presents a lecture by Fr. Reginald Lynch, O.P. of the Dominican House of Studies on the relationship between metaphysics and speculative theology.

Gavett 310

Saturday, October 9

4:30 PM

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:
Born in New Hampshire, Father Reginald Lynch, O.P. 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.