THE AQUINAS LECTURE
The Aquinas Lecture is an annual event in which the Dominican School of Philosophy
and Theology faculty nominates a scholar to offer a paper in which the teaching
and method of St. Thomas Aquinas is applied to issues of contemporary significance.
Aquinas Lecture 2008
Eleonore Stump
"Thomas Aquinas and the Problem of Human Suffering”
February 14, 2008 | 7:30 pm
2301 Vine Street, Berkeley, CA 94708
Click here to listen to Eleonore Stump's 2008 presentation
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Eleonore Stump is The Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University, where she has taught since 1992. She received a Ph.D. in medieval studies and medieval philosophy from Cornell University in 1975. Prof. Stump is editor-in-chief of the Yale Library of Medieval Philosophy and was section editor for the philosophy of religion for the new Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Among other honors, she is past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and the American Philosophical Association, Central Division. In 2003, she presented the Gifford Lectures in Aberdeen, Scotland. In 2004, she received the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching from Baylor University. In 2006, she gave the Wilde lectures at Oxford. Prof. Stump's many publications include Reasoned Faith (1993); Philosophy of Religion: The Big Questions (1998); the Cambridge Companion to Aquinas (1993); the Cambridge Companion to Augustine (1999); and Aquinas in the series "Arguments of the Philosophers" (2003). Her Gifford lectures, entitled Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering, are forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
Past Aquinas Lectures
2007 - Thomas S. Hibbs, Ph.D. (bio
on Baylor University website ) - "Everything that Rises Must Converge:
Aquinas's Theological Re-formation of the Cardinal Virtues" (listen
to the audio of the lecture)
2006 - Fr. Anselm Ramelow, OP -
"Language Without Reduction - Aquinas on the Linguistic
Turns"
2005 - Most Rev. Allen H. Vigneron, Th.D., “ Gratitude and Religion
of the Day: A Theological Enquiry into a Pastoral Question”
2004 - Gregory Tatum, OP, “Prolegomena to a Grammar of Theosis in the New Testament”
2003 - Eugene Ludwig, O.F.M., CAP, "Religion and Philosophy in the Big City: Alexandria in the Late Fourth Century"
2002 - Aquinas Symposium
- David Burrell, C.S.C., “Aquinas’ Use of the Liber de Causis to Formulate the Creator as Cause-Of-Being”
- Fran O’Rourke, “Unity in Aquinas’ Neoplatonic Commentaries”
- Mark Damien Delp, “Abstract and Concrete Names: Logic and Metaphysics in Aquinas’ Platonic Commentaries”
- Richard Schenk, OP, “From Providence to Grace: Dionysius in the Mid- Thirteenth Century”
- Vivian Boland, OP, “Thinking About Good: Aquinas on Divine Names IV, De Hebdomadibus and Nicomachean Ethics I”.
- Wayne John Hankey, “Thomas’ Neoplatonic Histories: His Following of Simplicis”
2001 - Benedict Ashley, OP, “Aquinas, Creation and Cosmic Evolution”
2000 - Gonzalo Ituarte Verdusco, OP, “Aquinas and Las Casas: Two Fighters for the Truth of Christ Revealed in the Poor”
1999 - Hilary Martin, OP, “Thomas Aquinas on Mission”
1998 - Robert Barron, “Thomas Aquinas’ Christological Reading of God and the Creature”
1997 - Richard Schenk, OP, “Towards a More Ambiguous Ambivalence: To What Degree are Pluralistic Theories of Religion ‘Capable of a Crisis in their Basic Concepts’”
1996 - Thomas O’Meara, OP, “Tarzan, Las Casas, and Rahner: Outside
of Christianity. Thomas Aquinas’ Theology of Salvation”
1995 - Edward Krasevac, OP, “Questing for Jesus: Need We Continue? Reflections of a Systematic Theologian on ‘the historical Jesus’.”
1993 - Gregory Rocca, OP, “Hovering over the Abyss: Aquinas on God-Talk” Jean Porter “Does Aquinas Believe in Moral Rules’?”
1992 - David Burrell, CSC, “Freedom and Creation in Three Traditions:
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam”
1991 - Michael Dodds, OP, “Thomas Aquinas, Human Suffering, and the Unchanging God of Love”
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