Applications are now open for a summer seminar at the Angelicum in Rome on “Grace, Virtue, and Law,” June 22–29, 2024. See the website here for more details on how to apply.

The deadline to apply is 4:00 p.m. (ET) on Friday, 23 February 2024.

For Saint Thomas Aquinas, the notion of law is situated within a broader metaphysical and theological context, which modern theories of law have largely abandoned. In order to recover the wisdom of Saint Thomas on the topic of law, the 2024 Rome seminar will consider this question: what is the relationship between grace, virtue, and law? 

With Saint Thomas as our guide, our seminar discussions will include the following topics: 

• Anthropological Foundations: Natural Inclinations as the Ground of Precepts of the Natural Law, Natural Law and its Connaturality

• Natural Virtues, Supernatural Virtues, and Infused Moral Virtues

• Relationship between Old and New Law 

• Sacraments of the Old Law and of the New Law 

• Pneumatological Dimensions of a Thomistic Theology of Grace

Our seminar will be hosted at the medieval Dominican University in Rome, the Angelicum. Our group will enjoy a full day of touring with renowned art historian, Elizabeth Lev. We will conclude our week with a Hillbilly Thomists concert from a rooftop overlooking the Eternal City.