Registration for courses closes one week before the start of the semester. All discussion courses are 2 credits and meet once a week.
Liberal Arts Discussion Courses
HMN 102
The Divine Comedy
Thursday 7:00pm – 8:30pm CT
Jason Baxter
Dante, Commedia: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
HMN 102
The Divine Comedy
Dr. Baxter will take students into the world of Danteās Commedia: following Dante through the horror, chaos, and misery of the Inferno, the longing and hope of the Purgatorio to the transcendent, luminous Paradiso. Commedia portrays the universal human story as epic: the crisis of mortality and fallenness transformed into mystical harmony between man and God.
PHL 202
Ethics
Saturday 10:00am – 11:30am CT
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Susan Waldstein
Plato,Ā Symposium
Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
PHL 202
Ethics
Dr. Waldstein, who has taught graduate theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ave Maria University, and the International Theological Institute in Austria, will lead students through one of Aristotle’s most practical works. The Ethics begins by asking: What does āgoodā mean? This understanding of the good informs the discussion of happiness, virtue and vice, friendship, and eventually leads to a description of the ideal, intellectual life.
THL 202
The Incarnation
Wednesday 6:00pm – 7:30pm CT
John Mortensen
St. Thomas Aquinas, Compendium of Theology, 202-246
THL 202
The Incarnation
Dr. John Mortensen will guide a study of the Incarnation as St. Thomasā Compendium Theologiae clarifies the meaning and redemptive significance of God becoming man – allowing us to wonder at the glory, scandal, and mystery of the Incarnation itself. Aquinasā articles confront the many heresies surrounding the natures and person of Christ, and examine His life, childhood, death, and resurrection in light of His humanity and divinity.
Theology Discussion Courses
THL 621
Commentary on Romans
Ā Friday 12:00pm – 1:30pm CT
Vincent DeMeo
Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Romans
THL 621
Commentary on Romans
Dr. DeMeo, a professor at the International Theological Institute in Austria, will guide students through St. Thomasā Commentary on Romans: exploring Paulās teachings on law, redemption, grace, and life in Christ.
THL 523
Middle Church Fathers
Monday 4:30pm – 6:00pm CT
Michael Foley
Ephrem, Athanasius, Cyril of Jerusalem, Cyril of Alexandria, Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome, Leo the Great, Gregory the Great
THL 523
Middle Church Fathers
Dr. Michael Foley, a Professor of Patristics in the Great Texts Program at Baylor University and the author of 11 books and approximately 300 articles, will lead the students in a course of Patristics as guided by some of the great Church Fathers such as Ephrem, Athanasius, Cyril of Jerusalem, Cyril of Alexandria, Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome, Leo the Great, and Gregory the Great.
THL 623
Human Acts and the Final End
Saturday 8:30am – 10:00am CT
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Susan Waldstein
St. Thomas Aquinas,Ā Summa TheologiaeĀ I-II, qq. 1ā21
THL 623
Human Acts and the Final End
Dr. Waldstein will lead a study of happiness, the will, and the good, through the Summa Theologiae. St. Thomas’ articles focus on āman, inasmuch as he too is the principle of his actions, as having free-will and control of his actionsā in the context of the human being and will as the likeness of God.