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02/25/2025

The Convocation of the College of Fellows was a success! It took place at the beginning of this month and we were graced with the presence and induction of Dr. Jennifer Frey! She hails from the University of Tulsa where she is Dean of the Honors College. The fellows discussed Christopher Dawson’s book “The Crisis of Western Education” which both details the crisis and touches upon a potential solution.

In addition to hearing the reflections on the text from the fellows, a DSPT student panel was commissioned to present on the text as well. After each student presentation, a Q&A was held in order to hear more from the students and fellows.

After the induction of Professor Frey, she lectured on the crisis of Western education and chaired a quodlibetal session.

We are blessed to have friendship with the College of Fellows and it is always a pleasure to be amongst them on campus.

12/16/2024

We are pleased to announce Dr. Jennifer Frey will join the College of Fellows!

In addition, she will be leading the discussion at this year's Convocation. The topic of this year will be on The Crisis of Western Education by Christopher Dawson.

If you are interested in attending, you can go ahead and submit your RSVP through the DSPT website: www.dspt.edu. We hope to see you there!

12/12/2024

Congratulations to Dr. Matthew Thomas on his contributions to the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible and the Christian Theology Textbook! If you haven't already, go check them out. If you want to learn more about Dr. Alister McGrath read about him here: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/oxford-people/Alister-McGrath

02/23/2024

The challenges of A.I. are on everyone’s mind. These are ethical challenges, and challenges to our self-understanding as human beings. The Church is not silent on these issues.

Four faculty members of the DSPT (Marga Vega, James Kintz, Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P., and Fr. Justin Gable, O.P.) have worked with scholars from various institutions to conduct an extensive study on Artificial Intelligence in cooperation with the Dicastery of Culture and Education.

The work has now been published under the title Encountering AI: Ethical and Anthropological Investigations (AI Research Group for the Vatican Centre for Digital Culture).

Read more in our most recent blog post: https://dspt.edu/news/the-challenge-of-ai-and-the-response-of-the-church

02/16/2024

Join us for the 2024 Aquinas Lecture on Thursday, March 7 at 7pm. The lecture will be presented by James Kintz, PhD, on the topic of “Personhood and the Problem of Mutual Awareness.”

Dr. James Kintz is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at DSPT.

For more information and to RSVP, visit dspt.edu/aquinaslecture2024

02/13/2024

Thank you to everyone who attended the 2024 Convocation of the College of Fellows!

We heard insightful presentations on the history and application of Gaudium et Spes from Fellows, students, and alum, followed by fruitful dialogue with all in attendance. The event concluded with the induction of Dr. Scott Roniger to the DSPT College of Fellows.

To read more about the event check out our most recent blog post: https://dspt.edu/news/the-2024-convocation-provides-fruitful-dialogue-for-the-church-today

PC: Sean Santos

01/11/2024

The Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et Spes (1965) was a somewhat novel kind of constitution, devoted not to doctrine strictly understood, but to a discernment of what had changed in the world, the great vineyard. It was deemed pastoral to denote our understanding of changeable things for the sake of accomplishing Christ’s great commission to his apostles.

Its purpose (not its end or goal) therefore was open-ended, requiring continual discernment of spiritual, moral, political, cultural, and economic challenges faced by men and women in mundo huius temporis. In their own time, the conciliar fathers considered a wide array of factors influencing the hopes and anxieties of the post-war generation, the animorum appetitiones (desires of the soul) that must be understood in time and place.

Sixty years later, we know in the course of lived experience that these hopes and anxieties, and the social relationships for which they once existed, have profoundly changed. So much so that it is not uncommon for us to think that we are living in a very different time, or a different world, so to speak. The challenges of family life, work, political community, human rights, communications, and perhaps most importantly, technological domination of ordinary community life – indeed, even disbelief in the majesty of both God and his created images are in a new phase.

Join the conversation on February 3 as we engage the history and application of Gaudium et Spes at the Convocation of the College of Fellows.

RSVP by January 22 at dspt.edu/convocation2024

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