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Papers on Aquinas at Kalamazoo 2007

Here is a list of papers on St Thomas that are scheduled at this year's Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo, MI:

Thursday, May 10, 2007

  • The Theory of Transcendentals in Aquinas and His Islamic Predecessors (Yoshihisa Yamamoto, Catholic Univ. of America)
  • Reason, Ignorance, and Faith: Is It Better Not to Know Too Much before Believing? (Gregory J. Coulter, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston)
  • Aquinas on the Justification of Faith (Carl N. Still, St. Thomas More College, Univ. of Saskatchewan)
  • Thomas Aquinas and the Possibilities of a Post-Modern Phenomenology of Faith (Randall Smith, Univ. of St. Thomas, Houston)
  • A Good Corpse: Why Dead Faith Is Not Evil (Steven Jensen, Wheeling Jesuit Univ.)
  • Aquinas on the Heretic's Assent to the Articles of Faith (Michael V. Dougherty, Ohio Dominican Univ.)
  • Infidelity and Good Actions (Thomas Osborne Jr., Center for Thomistic Studies)
  • Faith and Philosophy in Thomas Aquinas's Account of the Procession in God (Anthony James Carey, U.S. Air Force Academy)
  • The Five Uses of Philosophy in the Two Modes of Sacred Theology (Matthew Ryan McWhorter, Ave Maria Univ.)
  • Charity and Happiness: An Aporia in Aquinas? (Christopher J. Malloy, Univ. of Dallas)

Friday, May 11, 2007

  • The Fruits of Contemplation: Jesus, Sacra Doctrina, and the Vision of God in the Lectura super Ioannem of Thomas Aquinas (R. William Carroll, Independent Scholar)
  • Saint Thomas and Metaphysical Hierarchy (Lawrence Dewan, OP, Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology)
  • Finis Cui or Finis Quo: Saint Thomas and William of Moerbeke on De anima II.4 (Gerald Malsbary, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary)
  • Aquinas as Reader of Aristotle's Rhetoric (Kevin White, Catholic Univ. of America)
  • Aquinas and the Transcendent Power of the Passions (Michael R. Miller, Mount St. Mary's Univ.)
  • Resistance to the Demands of Love, Part II: Secular Analogues to Aquinas's Spiritual Sloth (Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung, Calvin College)
  • Time and History in Aquinas )Montague Brown, St. Anselm College
  • Saint Thomas and the Infinity of Grace (David Liberto, Notre Dame Seminary)
  • The Church as the Image of the Trinity: Does the Unity of God Distort the Theology of the Church (Matthew Levering, Ave Maria Univ.)
  • Aquinas on Grace, Free Will, and Original Sin: A Maimonidean Reading (John Y. B. Hood, Independent Scholar)
  • Is Logic a Contemplative Science? Aquinas's Point of View (Bruno Tremblay, St. Jerome's Univ.)
  • An Assessment of Martin Grabmann's Reading of Aquinas on the Divine Ground of Our Truth-Knowing (Matthew Cuddeback, Providence College)
  • Thomas Aquinas on Angels and the Subject of Metaphysics (Travis Cooper, College of St. Thomas More)

Saturday, May 12 2007

  • Legal Injustice in the Thomist Tradition and the Case of Civil Disobedience (Justin B. Dyer, Univ. of Texas–Austin)
  • The Relation of Language and Logic in Farabi and Aquinas (Mostafa Younesie, Tarbiat Modares Univ.)

Sunday, May 13, 2007

I can't find any!

This is, admittedly, as narrow view of the work that might be of interest and indeed crucial use to Thomists. There is, for instance, a session on Peter Lombard, sporting a paper by none other than Philipp W. Roseman.