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What Is Evil? Why Does God Permit It?

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Harvard Undergraduates

The Thomistic Institute chapter of Harvard University undergraduates presents a lecture by Fr. Dominic Legge, OP of the Dominican House of Studies titled "What Is Evil? Why Does God Permit It?”

Sever Hall, Room 214

Wednesday, Nov. 20.

6:00 PM

This event is free and open to the public.

About the speaker:

Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and Assistant Professor in Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001, after having practiced constitutional law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also taught at The Catholic University of America Law School and at Providence College. He is the author of The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2016).

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