Aquinas 201
DELIVERED BY
Ryan hurd
A FREE ZOOM LECTURE, response + Q&A
Date
Thursday October 12, 2023
LOCATION
Zoom
TIME
8:00pm ET
In recent years, there has been a welcome resurgence of interest in Thomas Aquinas among Protestants. Many have recovered his masterwork, the Summa Theologiae, as a go-to resource for dogmatic questions. Even where they disagree with it, it has once more become an indispensable tool for doing theology.
However, when reading the Summa, students can quickly max out the resources helpful for introductory learners. Careful reading on their own often hits a wall which can be difficult to climb. Students may feel they have a basic grasp of some of Aquinas’s big ideas and way of working, but sense that there is much more to be unlocked.
In this lecture, Ryan Hurd will give some more advanced tips for reading the Summa and understanding the greater logic of Aquinas’s thought. Anyone desiring to go to “the next level” in understanding Aquinas will benefit.
Colin Redemer will then offer a response to Ryan’s lecture, before moderating an open discussion and Q&A time.
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Schedule
8:00-8:45 Pm ET:
LECTURE: “Aquinas 201: Reading the Summa at the Next Level” by Ryan Hurd
8:45-9:00 Pm ET:
RESPONSE: Colin Redemer
9:00-9:30 Pm ET:
Q+A
Our Speaker
Ryan Hurd
PHD candidate, THEOLOGISCHE UNIVERSITEIT KAMPEN
Ryan Hurd is a systematic theologian whose area of expertise is the doctrine of God, specifically the Trinity. His primary training is in the high medieval and early modern scholastics as well as the 20th century ressourcement movement. He has written a number of articles and regularly does translations of early modern theology sources; but his primary project is writing a systematics of the Trinity. He is a Teaching Fellow at Davenant Hall.
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