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A Reply to Michèle Mulchahey Regarding My Book on the Sermons of Aquinas
RANDALL B. SMITH
Randall B. Smith (Professor of Theology, University of St. Thomas, Houston) replies to Michèle Mulchahey’s Review in The Thomist 83.3 (2019) of Smith’s book, Reading the Sermons of Thomas Aquinas: A Beginner’s Guide (Emmaus Academic, 2016).
Aquinas on Happiness as an Antidote to Modern Life
CHRISTOPHER J. THOMPSON
In a small section of his famous work, the Summa Theologiae, St. Thomas Aquinas provides us with a basic tutorial on human flourishing. This well-known “treatise on human happiness” forms the skeletal outlines of the dominant desire at the core of every human heart: the inescapable need for happiness, fulfillment, bliss.
De Koninck on the Existence of a Science of Metaphysics
In this paper, Dr. Glen Coughlin of Thomas Aquinas College discusses the views of Charles De Koninck about the necessity of proving the existence of immaterial beings before beginning metaphysics.
At The Heart of Being: Thomistic Existentialism & Cosmological Reasoning
By JOHN BRUNGARDT, Ph.D.
In the following review-essay, I explore in some detail Knasas’s argumentation and some of its consequences. First, I will look at some of the background to the issues regarding the contemporary Thomistic schools of thought so as to set forth what is at stake in the debate (§1).
Thomas Aquinas Against the Originalists
By JONATHAN CULBREATH
As opposed to the originalist conception of law, St. Thomas teaches that law is an ordinance of reason for the common good promulgated by him who has power over the community, derived from the natural law itself, for the purpose of making men virtuous.
