Gregory Rocca's book wins Charles Cardinal Journet Prize

In a follow-up to the previous story, the Aquinas Center at Ave Maria University has announced that Gregory P. Rocca, O.P.’s Speaking the Incomprehensible God: Thomas Aquinas on the Interplay of Positive and Negative Theologyis the winner of this year’s Charles Cardinal Journet Prize, which consists of:

a $500 award and an invitation to deliver the Journet Lecture at Ave Maria University during the Spring of the year, all expenses paid by the Aquinas Center for Theological Renewal. The purpose of the Journet Prize is to stimulate and draw attention to the ongoing renewal, among both Catholic and Protestant thinkers, of contemporary and energetic Thomistic scholarship.

Father Rocca is Professor of Philosophy and Theology at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, California, where he recently completed nine years as president.

Mark Johnson

Mark Johnson is an associate professor of Theology at Marquette University, and founded thomistica.net on Squarespace in November of 2004. He studied with James Weisheipl, Leonard Boyle, Walter Principe, and Lawrence Dewan, at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto, Canada).