Trinity Western University

The Thomistic Institute at Trinity Western University and the Canadian Scientific & Christian Affiliation present a lecture by Fr. Michael Dodds, O.P. of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology titled “Unlocking Divine Action: Causality from Thomas Aquinas to Quantum Mechanics.”

This lecture will be on Zoom. Register through Eventbrite to receive access to the Zoom credentials in your email inbox.

Wednesday, Oct. 27

7:00 PM PDT

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the speaker:

Michael J. Dodds, O.P., is Professor of Philosophy and Systematic Theology at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California. After undergraduate studies at Seattle University, he entered the Order of Preachers in 1970 and was ordained in 1977. He then taught for three years at St. Mary’s College, Moraga, California, before doing his doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1986. He has served as Academic Dean of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Convener of the Theology Area at the Graduate Theological Union, and Regent of Studies and Vicar Provincial of the Western Dominican Province. He is the author of The Unchanging God of Love: Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Theology on Divine Immutability (2008); Unlocking Divine Action: Contemporary Science and Thomas Aquinas (2012), and The One Creator God in Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Theology (2020), all from The Catholic University of America Press.