Lectures from the 2024 Thomistic Summer Conference!

Earlier this summer, scholars from across the United States came to Thomas Aquinas College, California, for the third Thomistic Summer Conference. The College is now pleased to offer the text and/or audio of the following select talks:

• Necessity, Contingency, and the Moral Virtue of Religion
  by Dr. Anthony James Carey
  St. John’s College, Santa Fe
• Esse in operibus legis: Aquinas, Divine Law, and the “New Perspective on Paul”
  by Rev. Francis J.  Caponi, O.S.A.
  Villanova University
• Public Enemy Number One: Situational Ethics vs. the Common Good
  by Rev. Sebastian Walshe, O.Praem. (’94)
  St. Michael’s Abbey
• The Species of Justice According to St. Thomas Aquinas
  by Dr. Daniel Gutschke
  Thomas Aquinas College, New England
• The Natural Knowledge of God and the First Principles of the Natural Law in Thomas Aquinas
  by Dr. Brett Smith
  Thomas Aquinas College, New England
• The Common Good and the Bonum Proprium of Man
  by Esther Berry (’23)
  Franciscan University of Steubenville
• The Moral Wisdom of Charles de Koninck in Ego Sapientia and The Primacy of the Common Good against the Personalists
  by Anthony L. Hernandez
  Ave Maria University
• What is the Natural Law’s Relation to the Divine Law?
  by Patrick Gordon
  University of Dallas