Aquinas Lecture Series
Each year, the Center for Thomistic Studies’ Aquinas Lecture brings a distinguished member of the philosophical community to the University of St. Thomas for a talk which displays the great resources of the Thomistic philosophical tradition, either by addressing a subject directly related to the writings of St. Thomas or some other figure in the tradition, or by addressing more systematically a question of enduring philosophical importance. Among the Aquinas Lecturers the Center has had the privilege of hosting are such renowned thinkers as Henry Veatch, Joseph Owens, Elizabeth Anscombe, Peter Geach, Janet Smith, Alasdair MacIntyre, Germain Grisez, Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., Msgr. John F. Wippel, Fr. Leo J. Elders, SVD, and Archbishop J. Michael Miller.
Aquinas Lecture Series Videos
2013 – Fr. Kevin Flannery, S.J., The Capacious Mind of St. Thomas Aquinas
2012 – Dr. Matthew Levering, Romans 1:20 and Our Natural Knowledge of God
2011 – Thomistic Personalism: A Marriage Made in Heaven, Hell, or Harvard? by Dr. Peter Kreeft
2010 – The Church’s “Common Doctor”: Thomas Aquinas and the Contemporary Catholic University by Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB
2009 – Fr. Leo Elders, “The Ripest Fruit”: Aquinas as Commentator on the Letters of St, Paul.
2008 – Thomas Aquinas and The Controversy Concerning Unity of Substantial Form in Human Beings by Msgr. John F. Wippel
2007 – Practical Reasoning After the “Fall” by Dr. John M. Rist
2006 – The Apologetics of Thomas Aquinas by Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J.
2005 – The Restless Heart Blunder by Dr. Germain Grisez
2004 – The Texture of Being: Paths of Action, Compass of Discourse by Dr. Kenneth Schmitz
2003 – “Why Aquinas Thinks Natural Sex is Best,” Dr. Janet Smith
2002 – “Agents, Actions, and the Ultimate Human End,” Alasdair MacIntyre
2001 – “Thomism in Early Colonial Philosophy in Mexico,” Rev. Mauricio Beuchot, OP
2000 – “What Sensations Won’t Tell You About Individuals,” Dr. Robert Wood
1999 – “Christian Freedom and Compulsive Behavior,” Rev. Romanus Cessario, OP
1998 – “Augustine, Abelard, Aquinas, and the Problem of Evil,” Rev. Leo Sweeney, SJ
1997 – “Practical Truth,” Rev. Brian Davies, OP
1996 – “The Modeling of Nature,” Rev. William A. Wallace, OP
1995 – “Thomas Aquinas: Harsh Teachings on Heretics,” Dr. Michael Novak
1994 – “The Abolition of Natural Law from the Human Heart,” Dr. Peter Kreeft
1993 – “Thomistic Personalism and Today’s Families,” Dr. Mary Rousseau
1992 – “Practical Truth,” Dr. Elizabeth Anscombe; “Knowledge, Belief, Certainty and Testimony,” Dr. Peter Geach
1991 – “The Pagan Basis for the Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas?” Dr. Ralph McInerny
1990 – “The Contemporary Relevance of the Social Thought of Aquinas in Europe and Latin America,” Dr. Paul Sigmund
1989 – “A Major Problem about Religious Belief,” Dr. Thomas Sullivan
1988 – “Contemporary Scientists,” Rev. Albert Moraczewski, OP
1987 – “Aquinas and the Theology of the Body,” Rev. Benedict M. Ashley, OP
1986 – “St. Thomas Aquinas: His Good Life and Hard Times,” Msgr. Edward A. Synan
1985 – “Aquinas and Action at a Distance,” Dr. Francis J. Kovach
1984 – “St. Thomas and American Law,” Rev. Robert J. Henle, SJ
1983 – “Voluntariness and the Insanity Plea,” Dr. Vernon Bourke 1982 – “Aquinas and Ideology,” Fr. Joseph Owens, CSsR
1981 – “Toward a Christian Philosophy of the Humanities,” Dr. Henry Veatch
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