International Interdisciplinary Conference in Honor of Saint Thomas Aquinas

13.03.2025

Saint Thomas Aquinas, a Figure of Evangelical Renewal: Between Foolishness, Tradition, and Reason, the Uncomfortable Position.
International interdisciplinary colloquium in honor of Saint Thomas Aquinas on the occasion of his 800th birthday.

Luxembourg School of Religion & Society
March 13-14, 2025

In collaboration with
The Chair for Fundamental Philosophical Issues in Theology and Social Philosophy at the Catholic Theological Faculty in Bonn,
The École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem,
The European Association of Catholic Theology (ESCT),
The Pontifical Academy of Theology,
The European Academy of Sciences and Arts (EASA).

With the support of
the Revue thomiste and the Institut Saint Thomas d’Aquin of Toulouse.

Conference Program
March 13, 2025

1 PM | Registration

2 PM | Jean Ehret, Opening of the Conference 
In order to foster a lively exchange and in-depths discussions, all talks (except the opening and the public conference) are organized according to the 20-20-20 system (20 min presentation, 20 min discussion, 20 min break).

2.30 PM – 5.30 PM | The Fire of God 
Chairwoman: Fáinche Ryan

• Paul Murray OP, Four Degrees of Violent Love: The Visionary Genius of Richard of St Victor
• Roger-Marie Yao CSJ, La mission de prédication de l’Église, œuvre par excellence de miséricorde chez saint Thomas d’Aquin
• Gabriel Mary Fiore CSJ, Lessons from the Lectura super Ioannem for a Thomistic Approach to Evangelization

6.30 PM | Eucharist

8.00 PM | Public Conference (hybride conference)         

• Donald Prudlo, The Conversions of Thomas Aquinas

March 14, 2025

8 AM | Morning Prayer 

8.30 – 12.30 PM | Evangelical Renewal in and of the Church
Chairman: Donald Prudlo 

• Fáinche Ryan, The Church in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas
• Oleg Davydov, A Comparison between Eastern Orthodox and Thomas Aquinas’s Conception of Tradition
• Bernhard Blankenhorn OP, Aquinas’s Mendicant Ecclesiology : Grace, Charisms, and Institutions.
• Catherine Joseph Droste OP, Aquinas on States of Life: Assisting Renewal

12.30 PM | Sext, followed by Lunch

2.30 PM – 5.30 PM | Doing Theology in and for a Renewed Church
Chairwoman: Catherine Joseph Droste OP 

• Olivier-Thomas Venard OP, Thomas d’Aquin : portrait d’un dominicain magister in sacra pagina en bibliste évangélique 
• Sylvain Detoc OP, Oser le « tournant patristique » avec saint Thomas d’Aquin ?
• Volker Leppin, The Church : Serving the Temporal Rulers or Opposing Them ? On the De Regno

5.30 PM | Conclusion

6 PM | Eucharist presided H. Em. Jean-Claude Cardinal Hollerich

Please follow this link for your inscription.

Please click here on the link for the participation at the hybride conference by Donald Prudlo on March 13th, 8pm.

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