All are welcome to join our lively discussion group as we help each other read through the Summa Theologica of St. Thomas Aquinas .

Unless otherwise noted, meetings are from 1-3 PM on the 4th SATURDAY of each month (from September through May) at Mathewson House

Contact Jim Latimer (spes_jsl@hotmail.com) for more information about this discussion group.

Usually at the beginning or end of the academic year we have guest speakers
 

Meeting Date	Discussion Topics (questions refer to First Part of the Second Part (Prima Secundæ Partis))
October 28, 2006	Questions 106- 107 (8 articles)
November 18, 2006  (note: 3rd Saturday)	Question 108 (4 articles)
December 16, 2006  (note: 3rd Saturday)	Question 109 (10 articles)
January 27, 2007	Questions 110-111 (9 articles)
February 24, 2007	Questions 112 (10 articles)
March 25, 2007	Questions 113 (10 articles)
April 22, 2007	Questions 114 (10 articles)
May 27, 2007	Makeup Session
June 2007	Closing Lecture (TBD) 30 Exchange Terrace, Providence

Past lectures have included:

"The Philosophy of St. Thomas" Dr. John Peterson

"The Philosophy of the Person" Dr. Stephen Schwarz

"Phenomenology and Thomism: Strangers, Friends, Allies?" Dr. William Marra

"The Truth of God's Existence" Dr. Michael Pakaluk

"Are Demons Unceasingly Evil?" Dr. Nicholas Ingham

"Sensuality and Free Will in Augustine and Aquinas" Dr. Dwight G. Duncan

"Does Aquinas Live in the 'Best of All Possible Worlds?':  The Angelic Doctor and the Problem of Evil" Dr. Fritz Wenisch

"The Radical Orthodox and Thomas: Promise and Perils" Dr. David Lewis Stokes Jr.

"Thomas Aquinas's Theory of the Moral Virtues" Dr. David Gallagher

"The Reality of Evil: a Challenge to the Evil as Privation Theory" Dr. Stephen Schwarz

"St. Thomas Aquinas' Vision of the Moral Life: Recovering a Forgotten Wisdom" Dr. Paul L. Gondreau

"Dante and the Resurrection of the Body" Dr. Anthony M. Esolen

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