What is Truth? - Dr. Scott Roniger
Dr. Scott Roniger explores the nature of truth by synthesizing Aristotelian-Thomistic metaphysics with phenomenology to demonstrate how the...
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How to Be a Good Friend: Combatting Envy and Fostering Love - Prof. Scott Cleveland
Prof. Scott Cleveland explores the Aristotelian and Thomistic vision of friendship, arguing that true flourishing requires overcoming the vi...
Why Do We Need Justification?: On Original Sin - Prof. Erik Dempsey
Prof. Erik Dempsey explores Original Sin as a fundamental, lived reality inherently inclining the human person toward wrongdoing, but recogn...
Identifying the Question? - Prof. Adam Eitel
Prof. Adam Eitel argues that modern identity theories ultimately fail because they lack a stable metaphysical grounding, and he proposes an...
The Natural Principles of Identity in Christ - Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy, O.P.
Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy examines the contemporary crisis of identity by contrasting modern fluid subjectivism with the Thomistic realist perspe...
Identity in Christ - Prof. Adam Eitel
Prof. Adam Eitel contrasts the modern, self-constituted notions of identity with the Thomistic understanding of man as a creature capable of...
Christ's Undergoing of Suffering for Our Sake - Prof. Paul Gondreau
Prof. Paul Gondreau explores the theological necessity of Christ's full humanity, arguing that by assuming a human nature complete with emot...
Faith and Medicine: if God Is Present at the Bedside, Why is There a Conspiracy of Silence? - Prof. Tim Flanigan
Prof. Tim Flanigan, in the face of a "conspiracy of silence" in clinical settings that discourages the expression of faith, urges medical pr...
The Use of Tools in a Technocratic Age: the Death of Wisdom? - Sr. Anna Wray, O.P.
Sr. Anna Wray, O.P. explores whether our reliance on efficiency-driven technology is hastening the death of wisdom by taking the place of hu...
The Priesthood of Christ and Our Baptismal Priesthood - Prof. Bruce Marshall
Prof. Bruce Marshall explains that through the indelible mark of baptismal character, the faithful are uniquely deputized to participate in...
Can I Ever Tell A Lie? - Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.
Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. examines the Catholic teaching on truthfulness as an exercise of justice, defining lying as a sin that perverts the f...
Truth, Goodness, and Beauty as Responses to Human Desire - Sr. Mary Angelica Neenan, O.P.
Sr. Mary Angelica Neenan, O.P. explores how the human soul’s powers of intellect and will are designed to find their ultimate fulfillment in...
The Fittingness of the Incarnation - Mr. Chris Wolter
Mr. Chris Wolter examines the fittingness of the Incarnation within the structural framework of Aquinas' Summa Theologiae, with the Incarnat...
Drawing Knowledge from Scientific Instruments - Dr. Marvin Bolt
Dr. Marvin Bolt explores the history and epistemology of scientific instruments, arguing that they are not merely passive tools but active e...
Why You Need St. Thomas Aquinas in your Life - Fr. Chris Gault, O.P.
Fr. Chris Gault, O.P. explores why St. Thomas Aquinas remains a vital guide for contemporary students, emphasizing that his systematic appro...
The Atomic Force Microscope:Truth, Guesses, Puzzles, and Personal Experiences - Prof. Santiago Solares
Prof. Santiago Solares explores the technical challenges and philosophical implications of Atomic Force Microscopy, arguing that rigorous sc...
Natural and Artificial Instruments for Investigating the Cosmos - Prof. John Brungardt
Prof. John Brungardt explores the Aristotelian-Thomistic necessity of scientific instruments as essential tools for the human mind to invest...
Telescopes and Our Understanding of the Cosmos - Prof. Karin Oberg
Prof. Karin Öberg examines how the vocation of the scientist aligns with the Thomistic view that studying the material order is a necessary...
The Seven Deadly Sins - Prof. David Elliot
Prof. David Elliot draws on Aquinas, Gregory the Great, and the desert monastic tradition to present the seven capital vices — pride (their...
St .Thomas Aquinas’ Spiritual Exegesis of the Mass - Fr. John Saward
Fr. John Saward presents Aquinas's Summa III, q.83 as a "spiritual exegesis" of the Mass, showing how the Angelic Doctor reads the rites, wo...