Regent University

A lecture by Fr. Gabriel Torretta, O.P.

Tuesday, September 10

6:00 PM

Moot Court Room

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:

Fr. Gabriel Torretta, O.P., is Assistant Professor of Theology at Providence College. He is a historian of Christian thought, with a focus on early medieval understandings of beauty and art. His first academic work was in pre-modern Japanese literature, which he studied at Columbia University, where he completed a Masters in Philosophy. He entered the Dominican Order in 2008 and studied philosophy and theology at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., where his studies culminated in a licentiate thesis on beauty, art, and deification in Augustine and Aquinas. He was ordained in 2015 and served as a parochial vicar in Cincinnati, Ohio, from 2015 to 2018. In 2018, he took up a new course of studies at the University of Chicago, focusing on the history of Christianity. He earned his PhD in 2024, with a dissertation entitled "'Beautiful as the Moon': Discourses of Beauty in the Carolingian Era.