Dr. Peter Kreeft Discusses “The Problem of Pain” at First 2018 Summer Seminar

For more than 25 years, Thomas Aquinas College has invited members of the President’s Council — the backbone of its financial-aid fund — to one of two Great Books Summer Seminar Weekends. This year, however, the College updated the format of the event by offering the first of the seminars in a day-long format. That event took place this past Saturday, featuring as its guest speaker Dr. Peter Kreeft, the renowned apologist and professor of philosophy from Boston College.

Dr. Peter KreeftAs with Summer Seminars past, Saturday’s gathering gave participants an inside look at the unique education that they so generously help to make possible. The theme for the day was “The Problem of Pain,” which attendees explored in a classroom discussion about the Book of Job, led by the College’s president and vice president. That afternoon they also attended a lecture by Dr. Kreeft, who sought to explain how suffering can be reconciled with the existence of an all-good, all-powerful God.

Lunch on St. Gladys PlazaBetween these events, attendees were able to participate in the spiritual life of the College with a midday Mass in Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity Chapel. Afterward, they enjoyed a delicious lunch and delightful conversation in St. Gladys Plaza.

The next Summer Seminar, which will be held in the customary three-day format,  is set to take place this coming weekend, with the Most Rev. Robert A. Barron, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, serving as the featured speaker.