Thomas Aquinas
Subtitle: teacher of humanity : proceedings from the first conference of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas held in the United States of America
By: edited by John P. Hittinger and Daniel C. Wagner
Publisher: Cambridge Scholar Pub.
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9781443875547
Subjects: Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / John P. Hittinger; title: Introduction: Pope John Paul II's designation of St. Thomas Aquinas as Doctor Humanitatis / John P. Hittinger; title: Apostolic letter: Inter Munera Academiarum / Saint John Paul II; title: Pt. I: Karol Wojtyla. Thomas Aquinas: teacher of humanity / Francis Cardinal George; title: St. John Paul II's Thomism: why St. Thomas Aquinas is a teacher of humanity / Matthew L. Lamb; title: The political praxis of Karol Wojtyla and St. Thomas Aquinas / Rocco Buttiglione; title: What does it mean to be "incommunicable?" and why does it matter? / Paul Kucharski; title: Wojtyla: nature, person, and teleology / Brian Kemple; title: Pt. II: Humanism. Thomas Aquinas, wisdom, and human dignity: philosophy and beyond / Lawrence Dewan; title: Sitting at the feet of the master: reading the Summa Theologiae as written provides holistic formation / John D. Love; title: Aquinas and humanity in the cosmos / Thomas J. McLaughlin; title: Is Thomism a "humanism?" / Steven A. Long; title: The passions: some key Thomistic distinctions / Jeffrey Froula; title: Humor, hope, and the human being / Margaret I. Hughes; title: Pt. III: Transhumanism. The roots of transhumanism / Steven Jensen; title: Thomas Aquinas: teacher of transhumanity? / John Boyer & Geoffrey Meadows; title: A Thomistic appraisal of human enchancement technologies / Jason T. Eberl; title: Pt. IV: Knowledge. St. Thomas Aquinas on the acquisition of knowledge / Richard J. Dougherty; title: Aquinas on a general knowledge of God possessed by most people / John F. X. Knasas; title: The challenge of the Thomistic Sensus Communis: a hermeneutic view / Mirela Oliva; title: Hylomorphic dualism and the challenge of embodied cognition / Bruce Paolozzi; title: Grounding natural law without human nature / Michael J. Deem; title: Pt. V: Love, marriage, and gender. Gender reality vs. gender ideology / Sr. Prudence Allen; title: Freedom, justice, and the authoritative nature of marriage / James M. Jacobs; title: Aquinas as teacher of humanity: lessons of truth and love / R. Mary Hayden Lemmons; title: Pt. VI: Politics. Aquinas on prudence, law and subsidiarity / Gavin T. Colvert; title: The future of western civilization according to Jacques Maritain / Juan J. Álvarez Álvarez; title: Educating the whole person: a realist philosophical critique of the concept of science literacy / John F. Morris; title: Pt. VII: Theology. Verbum et Principium in Aquinas's Commentary on St. John: a prelude to philosophical anthropology / James G. Hanink; title: Theology, philosophy, and history: the challenge of Bernard Lonergan and Étienne Gilson for the new evangelization / Hugh Williams; title: Go teach all nations: some reflections on the role of St. Thomas Aquinas in the new evangelization / E. M. Macierowski; title: The beatitudes: Pope Francis' programme / Marcelo Sanchez Sorondo; title: Afterword. Homily on St. Thomas Aquinas / Rev. Victor Brezik.