Several of these students, who had heard Woodbury for many years two of them with doctorates from the Angelicum in 1985 legally incorporated the Centre for Thomistic Studies as a non profit organisation in order to continue the work Woodbury had begun. The Centre is an institute aiming, as did Woodbury, to bring the thought of St Thomas to ordinary people. As was the case with it, no formal academic qualifications are required, nor, at this time, can they be given. We survive solely by attracting students who wish to hear the richness of doctrine we have to offer. Our teaching is not very intensive in that we offer classes on only one night a week, since many of the staff and most students are lay people who have to work or are otherwise occupied by day.
Class sizes are of the order of a dozen to thirty or forty.
The program of courses in philosophy is designed to take the student through the whole of philosophy including Logic, Natural Philosophy, Moral Philosophy, Social including Economic and Political Philosophy and Metaphysics, including Epistemology, Ontology and Natural Theology. Particular attention is paid in the program to Logic Moral Philosophy and Metaphysics. The History of Philosophy is incorporated in the teaching of these subjects rather than as a separate subject. The one thing, however, that we insist on is adherence to the mind and method of Aquinas. The one thing we try to offer is an understanding of it.