CANCELED Father Brian Davies, Aquinas Symposium Speaker for 2015
Father Brian Davies, O.P., is the
speaker at the 2015 Symposium
on St. Thomas Aquinas at Saint
Mary's College.DUE TO A WINTER STORM ON THE EAST COAST, WHERE THE SPEAKER LIVES, THIS LECTURE IS CANCELED. OUR APOLOGIES.
Media Contact:
Gwen O’Brien
Director of Media Relations
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, Ind.
(574) 284-4579
January 5, 2015 (Notre Dame, Ind.)—Saint Mary's College is proud to announce that Father Brian Davies, O.P., Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, is the speaker for the 2015 Symposium on St. Thomas Aquinas. The hour-long talk will be held at 7 p.m. on the saint’s feast day, Wednesday, January 28, in Rice Commons of the Student Center. A brief discussion and reception will follow the talk. The event is free and open to the public.
Davies’s lecture is titled “Thomas Aquinas on God and Evil.” He will explain how Aquinas thought about God and evil, while not supposing that God is a morally good agent, as many people do when discussing the topic.
“Father Brian Davies is a preeminent philosopher of religion and one of the foremost interpreters and expositors in the English-speaking world of the richness of St. Thomas Aquinas's thought,” said religious studies professor Joseph Incandela, the Joyce McMahon Hank Aquinas Chair in Catholic Theology at Saint Mary's College.
“His ability to convey complex ideas through understandable images and ideas makes him a born teacher, an accomplished author, and a wonderful speaker. I'm truly excited to host him at this year's Aquinas Symposium and to hear him expound on a topic which, in Aquinas's day as in our own, is among the most vexing for all believers,” Incandela added.
The Aquinas Symposium is sponsored by the Joyce McMahon Hank Aquinas Chair in Catholic Theology. Click to see videos of past Aquinas Symposium lectures. or download the Faith Meets Philosophy app to access videos and more information on the symposium: iOS or Andriod. For more information on this year’s event, call Barb Westra, administrative assistant in religious studies, at (574) 284-4534.
About Saint Mary’s College: Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Ind., is a four-year, Catholic, residential, women’s liberal arts college offering five bachelor’s degrees and more than 30 major areas of study, such as business, nursing, art, chemistry, and social work. By the fall of 2015, pending accreditations anticipated in the spring, Saint Mary’s College will offer two graduate degrees: a Master of Science and a Doctorate. All programs that fall under these degrees are co-educational and include a Master of Science in Data Science, a Master of Science in Speech Language Pathology and a Doctorate of Nursing Practice. Founded in 1844 by the Sisters of the Holy Cross, Saint Mary’s College’s mission is to educate students, develop their talents, and prepare them to make a difference in the world. Saint Mary’s College ranks among the top 100 Best National Liberal Arts Colleges for 2015 published by U.S. News & World Report.
~Press release composed by media relations intern Sara Bauer ’15. Sara is majoring in business marketing and minoring in Italian.