What is predestination? – Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.
Fr. Dominic Legge explains predestination as a profoundly hopeful Catholic doctrine rooted in God’s eternal, loving plan to give grace and lead rational creatures freely to the supernatural end of the beatific vision, drawing especially on Saint Th...
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<p>Fr. Dominic Legge explains predestination as a profoundly hopeful Catholic doctrine rooted in God’s eternal, loving plan to give grace and lead rational creatures freely to the supernatural end of the beatific vision, drawing especially on Saint Thomas Aquinas and Saint Augustine.</p><p><br /></p><p>This lecture was given on September 5th, 2025, at Dominican House of Studies.</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Through your gift to the Thomistic Institute, you will send the best scholars in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition directly to college campuses, bringing the light of Christ to students longing for answers. </span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thanks to a group of generous donors, </span><strong style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">every dollar you send up to $150,000 before December 31 will be matched</strong><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. This means that your gift will touch twice as many souls!</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">To make your gift today, visit </span><a href="https://thomisticinstitute.org/donate-podcast" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" target="_blank">https://thomisticinstitute.org/donate-podcast</a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p><p><br /></p><p>For more information on upcoming events, visit us at <a href="https://thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events" target="_blank">thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>About the Speakers:</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Fr. Dominic Legge is the President of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception and Associate Professor in Systematic Theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He is an Ordinary Member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, and 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, 2017).</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Keywords: </span>Actual Grace, Augustine <em>On the Predestination of the Saints</em>, Divine Providence, Exitus Reditus and Final End, Grace and Human Free Will, Human Freedom, Predestination and Eternal Life, Problem of Evil, Rational Creatures and Beatific Vision, Saint Catherine of Siena</p>