Duke University

A lecture by Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. (Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum), Rome)

Thursday, February 6

5:00 PM

0016 Westbrook, Duke Divinity

This lecture is co-sponsored with Fons Vitae at Duke Divinity School.

This lecture is free and open to the public, with RSVP requested.

About the speaker:

Originally a native of southeastern Georgia in the United States, Fr. White studied at Brown University, where he converted to Catholicism. He did his doctoral studies in theology at Oxford University and is the author of various books and articles including, Wisdom in the Face of Modernity, A Thomistic Study in Natural Theology (Sapientia Press, 2016), The Incarnate Lord, A Thomistic Study in Christology (The Catholic University of America Press, 2015), The Trinity: On the Nature and Mystery of the One God (Catholic University of America Press, 2022), and Contemplation and the Cross (The Catholic University of America Press, 2025). 

With Matthew Levering, he is the co-editor of the academic journal Nova et Vetera. In 2011 he was appointed an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas and in 2019 was named a Distinguished Scholar of the McDonald Agape Foundation. He held the 2018-2019 McInnes Chair for theological inquiry at the Angelicum. In 2022, he was granted an honorary doctorate from the Catholic University of America, and in 2023 he was elected President of the Academy of Catholic Theology. In 2023, Fr. White was also awarded the title Master of Sacred Theology, one of the highest academic awards in the Dominican Order.