Thomas, Joseph, and Augustine
The way Thomas Aquinas interprets the dilemma of St. Joseph says a lot about our current age. While we focus on avoiding evil, Thomas focused on the holiness of God. Read the post for a special announcement about the works of St. Augustine!
Aquinas on Hope
What is hope? What can we hope for? Can a Christian place his hope in anything other than God? In our own striving for the one arduous and difficult good that is the purpose of human life, it is not only St. Thomas’s luminous teaching that can help us, but his even more luminous example.
Mind the Gap: What I Missed and Where I Found It
The Aquinas Institute’s new online video discussion courses allow you – no matter where you work, what you do, or how old you are – to read, understand, and discuss the answers that lie in the greatest books of all time.
The Aquinas Institute offers a new online Masters in Theology
Under the patronage of our Lady on this feast of her Assumption into Heaven, The Aquinas Institute is pleased to announce a new online masters in theology program. The aim of the Graduate Theology Curriculum is simple: to impart the fundamental principles of theology....
New Release: Aquinas on Aristotle’s Metaphysics
The Aquinas Institute is pleased to announce the publication of St. Thomas’s commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics in a new Latin-English edition, with the text of Aristotle in Latin, Greek, and English. Volume I and Volume II can be purchased through the St. Paul...
Discuss the Great Books Online: for College Credit
There are many excellent Catholic brick-and-mortar colleges these days, and several good online programs. Nonetheless, few students discover the tremendous heritage of Western civilization, and, for various reasons, only a tiny percentage of all Catholics will attend...
The Pamplona Exemplar
On February 18 we had the great pleasure and privilege of viewing one of the authoritative original manuscripts of Thomas Aquinas’s commentary on Book III of the Sentences: the Pamplona university exemplar. A university exemplar is a master copy made from an author’s...
Mother of God, Queen of Heaven
In 1858 Our Lady appeared to Bernadette Soubirous, a young girl in Lourdes, France. Our Lady called herself the Immaculate Conception. One year later Our Lady appeared to Adele Brise, a young woman in Champion, Wisconsin, and called herself the Queen of Heaven. Both...
2019 Summer Theology Program Recap
Nearly 40 people from all across the country spent the week of August 12-16 in Wausau, Wisconsin studying St. Thomas Aquinas's commentary on St. Paul's Epistle to the Galatians. The event was a collaborative effort of The Aquinas Institute for the Study of Sacred...
Big news for the Aquinas Institute’s 10th Anniversary
When the Aquinas Institute was founded in 2008, we built on a strong foundation. We had a deep background in St. Thomas Aquinas, years of experience translating medieval Latin, and a passion for our mission: to make the texts of Aquinas available as widely as possible...