Spring 2024 Reading Groups
Nicomachean Ethics Reading Group with Fr. Kevin Flannery, S.J.
Undergraduate Thomistic Reading Group
In an address the Notre Dame College of Arts & Letters, Jacques Maritain highlighted undergraduate education as the appropriate time for, "the development of natural intelligence," wherein, "the end is to cause the student to understand, to grasp the meaning and the basic truths of theology and philosophy." Taking this advice to heart, the Jacques Maritain Center undertakes to form undergraduates in the study of philosophy and theology, treating Thomas Aquinas as an exemplary guide. Toward that end, the Center sponsors a reading group on a special theme each semester.
Spring 2024: The Sermons of St. Thomas Aquinas
As a friar in the burgeoning Dominican Order, St. Thomas Aquinas dedicated himself especially to the mission of preaching. As a Master of the Sacred Page, among his primary responsibilities was delivering sermons to his university community. St. Thomas' sermons, many of which remain accessible to us today, receive relatively little attention in comparison with his prodigious accomplishments in academic philosophy and theology. This reading group will be introduced to a different side of St. Thomas by reading from his sermons, together with Randall B. Smith's, Reading the Sermons of Thomas Aquinas: A Beginner's Guide.
Meetings: Every other week, times TBD.
Contact: Christopher Enabnit