Abigail Williams, Matthew Breuninger, ‘A Pilot Investigation of Attachment-focused Self-Hypnosis to Change Insecure God Attachment’, in International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis, 68.2 (2020), pp. 246-262.Dr. Matthew Breuninger discusses clinical hypnosis in light of his and Abigail Williams’ research examining the possibility of changing insecure God attachment through self-hypnosis. Dr. Breuninger defines hypnosis as ‘a state of consciousness involving focused attention and...

Sarah Klitenic Wear, ‘Language of Interaction in Cyril’s Trinitarian Theology and Proclus’s Theory of the Henads’, and ‘The Rational Soul of Jesus and the Word in Cyril’s Scholia on the Incarnation’, forthcomingIn this session, Dr. Sarah Klitenic Wear discusses two papers exploring St. Cyril of Alexandria’s metaphysics of the Incarnation and the Trinity, and the consequent contribution of St. Cyril and other Christian theologians to Neoplatonic philosophy in the 5th Century. In the first pape...

Brandon Dahm, ‘The Virtue of Somnience’, in American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly , 94 (4): 611-637. 2020.In this session, Dr. Brandon Dalm discusses the virtue of ‘somnience’, a newly coined virtue that has a relation to sleep as its specifying character. Building on the virtue tradition of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, Dr. Dahm argues that we should identify a particular virtue related to sleep, both since sleep is an important sphere of human life taking up approx. one third of the...

William Newton, ‘The Catholic Charismatic Renewal through the Eyes of St. Thomas Aquinas’, in The Downside Review, 137.2 (2019), pp. 31-46.Dr. William Newton discusses the Catholic Charismatic Renewal through the lens of the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas and his extensive treatment of the charisms in the Summa Theologiae. After relating his own broad experience of the Charismatic Renewal, in both its European and American forms, and the great evangelical benefits to be found in the exercise o...

John Crosby, The Personalism of John Paul II (Steubenville, OH: Hildebrand Press, 2019).Dr. John Crosby discusses his recently republished short and eminently readable book on the personalism of Pope St. John Paul II. Although originally written over twenty years ago, Dr. Crosby had the book reissued in light of the pressing needs of the present day, since we continue to see what St. John Paul II called the ‘pulverization of the person’, while also noticing a growing sensitivity to the indivi...