Woman: A Man-Made Artifact or a Divine Creation? | Dr. Michele M. Schumacher

The podcast transcript discusses two contrasting views of feminism, one rooted in existentialist philosophy (e.g., Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir) that emphasizes self-creation and rejection of inherent nature, and another, inspired by the Judeo-Christian tradition (e.g., John-Paul II), that sees human nature as created by God and emphasizes cooperation with divine creation.This talk was given on October 12, 2022 at Trinity College Dublin. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker:Michele M. Schumacher is a doctor in theology (S.T.D.) and a private docent at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. Among her many publications, she is the editor and contributing author of Women in Christ: Towards a New Feminism (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004) and author of Metaphysics and Gender: The Normative Art of Nature and Its Human Imitations (Stubenville, OH: Emmaus Academic, 2023); and A Trinitarian Anthropology: Adrienne von Speyr and Hans Urs von Balthasar in Dialogue with St. Thomas Aquinas (Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2014)

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The Thomistic Institute exists to promote Catholic truth in our contemporary world by strengthening the intellectual formation of Christians at universities, in the Church, and in the wider public square. The thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Universal Doctor of the Church, is our touchstone. The Thomistic Institute Podcast features the lectures and talks from our conferences, campus chapters events, intellectual retreats, livestream events,  and much more.  Founded in 2009, the Thomistic Institute is part of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC.