Aquinas’ Third Way of Proving a God: Logic or Love?

Aquinas' Third Way of Proving a God: Logic or Love?

Cosponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop Thomas Aquinas’ famous five ways of proving the existence of a God continue to intrigue and perplex his readers. The most troublesome is perhaps the third—the […]

Aquinas: Poet and Contemplative

Aquinas: Poet and Contemplative

Cosponsored by the Medieval Studies Workshop and the Theology and Religious Ethics Workshop “The well-known is what we have yet to learn.” T.S. Eliot What do we know of the […]

Aquinas and the Life of the Mind

Aquinas and the Life of the Mind

Saint Thomas Aquinas regards mind, or intellect, as a form of life.  It is even the most perfect form, he says, because it carries the power of free choice. Yet […]