Wisdom in the Face of Modernity: Is Faith Irrational? | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

The Thomistic Institute

Fr. Dominic Legge discusses the relationship between faith and reason, challenging common misconceptions that faith is irrational or purely subjective, and instead arguing that Christian faith is fundamentally reasonable and compatible with reason.

The lecture was given on October 7, 2020 at the Catholic Information Center.

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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).