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Cardinal Avery Dulles Gives Annual Aquinas Lecture on ‘The Apologetics of St. Thomas Aquinas’
HOUSTON (February 21, 2006) – Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., delivered the 2006 St. Thomas Aquinas lecture at the University of St. Thomas at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 21, in
Jones Hall, 3910 Yoakum.
 St. Thomas was not directly engaged in disputes with non-Christians, but in his Summa contra Gentiles he gives principles to be used for such disputes. The lecture
summarized the main elements of his method of establishing the credibility of the Christian religion. Then some attention was given to the viability of the method today, including current objections to the Thomistic proofs for the existence of God and to the biblical miracles. Some consideration was also given to new apologetical approaches.
Cardinal Dulles, a native of Auburn, N.Y., and a Harvard graduate, has authored more than 700 articles and published 22 books. He graduated from Harvard College in 1940 and attended Harvard Law School before serving in the U.S. Navy. He emerged in 1946 with the rank of lieutenant and in the same year entered the Jesuit Order. He was ordained as a priest in 1956 and awarded the doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Gregorian University in Rome in 1960. He served on the faculty of Woodstock College from 1960 to 1974. Pope John Paul II created him a Cardinal in 2001. Cardinal Dulles is the past president of both the Catholic Theology Society of America and the American Theological Society and professor emeritus at the Catholic University of America.
He is presently the Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Religion and Society at Fordham University, a position he has held since 1988. The UST Center for Thomistic Studies, the only graduate philosophy program in the United States focused on the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, sponsors the lecture. The 2006 lecture concludes the Center’s 25th anniversary celebrations. University of St. Thomas is a private institution committed to the liberal arts and to the religious, ethical and intellectual tradition of Catholic higher education.
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The Order of St. Thomas
HOUSTON (February 2, 2006) – To mark the 25th anniversary of its founding, the Center for Thomistic Studies at the University of St. Thomas will initiate The Order of St. Thomas, an award to be presented to persons who have testified to “the incomparable value of the philosophy of Saint Thomas” (Fides et Ratio 5, §57) in their writings, teaching, philanthropy or way of life. Each recipient will be presented with a medal bearing an image of Thomas Aquinas and the motto of the Order, “Quantum Potes, Tantum Aude”: Dare to do all that you can.
In this inaugural year, the Center honored Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., the 2006 Aquinas Lecturer on the 5th anniversary of his creation as a Cardinal by Pope John Paul II (February 21, 2001) and in recognition of his exemplary scholarship and in gratitude for his life-long defense of the faith and “of the hope that is in” us. (1 Peter 3:15).
Mr. George Strake, Jr., President of the Strake Foundation and Member of the University of St. Thomas’ Board of Directors, for his unapologetic commitment to the Catholic tradition in higher education and for his generosity, which has given many young men and women the opportunity to study the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas.
The awards were announced prior to the 2006 Aquinas Lecture “The Apologetics of Thomas Aquinas” held 7:30 pm in February 21, 2006 at Jones Hall, University of St. Thomas. |
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