This lecture was given on April 16, 2021 at Can the Mind Know God? Faith, Knowledge, and Divine Attributes, an intellectual retreat. The handout for this lecture may be found here: https://tinyurl.com/2jhek8j4 For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Ephrem Reese, O.P. is Parochial Vicar at St. Patrick's Church in Philadelphia, PA. He was a Methodist in his youth, and was confirmed in the Catholic Church in 2010, the same year he earned a B.A. from St. John's College in Annapolis, MD. He sought to follow the example of Dorothy Day in several Catholic Worker communities and other groups until he entered the Dominicans in 2013. Fr. Ephrem was ordained a priest in 2020, and spent a year working for the Thomistic Institute