Welcome to Thomistica.NET, a website devoted to the academic study of St. Thomas Aquinas (a.d. 1225-1274), the medieval Italian, Dominican saint. This site is designed to provide ready access to up-to-date information about resources for scholars of Aquinas, via a constantly-updated news page, which in turn is the source for an RSS newsfeed. In addition, about once every quarter, the site will also sport a downloadable newsletter detailing research ideas, suggestions, and other items of note. The site is owned and operated by Mark Johnson, of the Department of Theology at Marquette University (Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA).

A bit about the site and its structure. Thomistica.NET is hosted, and operates on, the wonderful on-line publishing system of Squarespace.com. On the left side of this page (and every page) you will see a navigation column that divides the site into its parts (there are really too many right now; I need to make it more orderly). Some of these main section links have expandable ‘plus-sign’ submenus, which may help you to get to sections more quickly. Here is a quick breakdown of the site’s contents:

• The News link will bring you to the news page, which contains short notices of interest to Aquinas scholars, regarding things ranging from calls-for-papers to items about software to news about important individuals in the Thomistic community. These items are categorized, ranging from “calls for papers” to “on-line resources.”
• The site also features the ability to Subscribe to our announcements list. This is simple, and anonymous.
• The Thomistica link is something of a catch-all (click on the ‘plus’ sign to expand the tree into all its sub-parts), which contains translations, links to photo galleries, Thomistic wallpaper (whose time has come, don’t you think?), etc.
• The About the site link brings you to technical information about the site (mostly concerning software); this section also contains the Support the site, page where you can learn of ways to help the site to meet its ‘material’ needs (the advertising to the left is a concession, alas, the fiscal reality).
• Please don’t hesitate to visit the Guestbook and leave a message—as with all things on the site, it is completely anonymous, so all things remain sub pectore.
• Finally, the Contact page provides you with a quick way to send e-mail to the webmaster without having to be in your personal e-mail client or having to divulge your e-mail address.

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