Each year, the Center for Thomistic Studies’ Aquinas Lecture brings a distinguished member of the philosophical community to the University of St. Thomas for a talk which displays the great resources of the Thomistic philosophical tradition, either by addressing a subject directly related to the writings of St. Thomas or some other figure in the tradition, or by addressing more systematically a question of enduring philosophical importance. Among the Aquinas Lecturers the Center has had the privilege of hosting are such renowned thinkers as Henry Veatch, Joseph Owens, Elizabeth Anscombe, Peter Geach, Janet Smith, Alasdair MacIntyre, Germain Grisez, Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J., Msgr. John F. Wippel, Fr. Leo J. Elders, SVD, and Archbishop J. Michael Miller.
2022 – Dr. Therese Cory, “The Nature We Ought to Love: A Thomistic Perspective on the Moral Evils of Racism”
2020 – Dr. Kevin White, "Aquinas’s Discovery of Aristotle’s Rhetoric.”
2019 – Dr. Edward Feser, "Classical Theism and the Nature of God."
2018 – Fr. Stephen L Brock, "Aquinas's Shortest Way to God's Existence, and How Darwinism Fits Within It."
2017 – Fr. James V. Schall, S.J., Is Intelligence Impractical? Reflections of a “Rigid” Thomist
2016 – Dr. John Haldane, The Mind and the Soul: Aquinas, Anscombe and Geach
2015 – Professor Rémi Brague, Aquinas’ Doctrine on Providence and Its Current Relevance
2014 – Fr. Lawrence Dewan, OP, Thomas Aquinas, Wisdom and Human Dignity: Philosophy and Beyond
2013 – Fr. Kevin Flannery, S.J., The Capacious Mind of St. Thomas Aquinas
2012 – Dr. Matthew Levering, Romans 1:20 and Our Natural Knowledge of God
2011 – Thomistic Personalism: A Marriage Made in Heaven, Hell, or Harvard? by Dr. Peter Kreeft
2010 – The Church’s “Common Doctor”: Thomas Aquinas and the Contemporary Catholic University by Archbishop J. Michael Miller, CSB
2009 – Fr. Leo Elders, “The Ripest Fruit”: Aquinas as Commentator on the Letters of St, Paul. (Video Unavailable)
2008 – Thomas Aquinas and The Controversy Concerning Unity of Substantial Form in Human Beings by Msgr. John F. Wippel
2007 – Practical Reasoning After the “Fall” by Dr. John M. Rist
2006 – The Apologetics of Thomas Aquinas by Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J.
2005 – The Restless Heart Blunder by Dr. Germain Grisez
2004 – The Texture of Being: Paths of Action, Compass of Discourse by Dr. Kenneth Schmitz (Video Unavailable)
2003 – “Why Aquinas Thinks Natural Sex is Best,” Dr. Janet Smith (Video Unavailable)
2002 – “Agents, Actions, and the Ultimate Human End,” Alasdair MacIntyre (Video Unavailable)
2001 – “Thomism in Early Colonial Philosophy in Mexico,” Rev. Mauricio Beuchot, OP (Video Unavailable)
2000 – “What Sensations Won’t Tell You About Individuals,” Dr. Robert Wood (Video Unavailable)
1999 – “Christian Freedom and Compulsive Behavior,” Rev. Romanus Cessario, OP (Video Unavailable)
1998 – “Augustine, Abelard, Aquinas, and the Problem of Evil,” Rev. Leo Sweeney, SJ (Video Unavailable)
1997 – “Practical Truth,” Rev. Brian Davies, OP (Video Unavailable)
1996 – “The Modeling of Nature,” Rev. William A. Wallace, OP (Video Unavailable)
1995 – “Thomas Aquinas: Harsh Teachings on Heretics,” Dr. Michael Novak (Video Unavailable)
1994 – “The Abolition of Natural Law from the Human Heart,” Dr. Peter Kreeft (Video Unavailable)
1993 – “Thomistic Personalism and Today’s Families,” Dr. Mary Rousseau (Video Unavailable)
1992 – “Practical Truth,” Dr. Elizabeth Anscombe; “Knowledge, Belief, Certainty and Testimony,” Dr. Peter Geach (Video Unavailable)
1991 – “The Pagan Basis for the Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas?” Dr. Ralph McInerny (Video Unavailable)
1990 – “The Contemporary Relevance of the Social Thought of Aquinas in Europe and Latin America,” Dr. Paul Sigmund (Video Unavailable)
1989 – “A Major Problem about Religious Belief,” Dr. Thomas Sullivan (Video Unavailable)
1988 – “Contemporary Scientists,” Rev. Albert Moraczewski, OP (Video Unavailable)
1987 – “Aquinas and the Theology of the Body,” Rev. Benedict M. Ashley, OP (Video Unavailable)
1986 – “St. Thomas Aquinas: His Good Life and Hard Times,” Msgr. Edward A. Synan (Video Unavailable)
1985 – “Aquinas and Action at a Distance,” Dr. Francis J. Kovach (Video Unavailable)
1984 – “St. Thomas and American Law,” Rev. Robert J. Henle, SJ (Video Unavailable)
1983 – “Voluntariness and the Insanity Plea,” Dr. Vernon Bourke 1982 – “Aquinas and Ideology,” Fr. Joseph Owens, CSsR (Video Unavailable)
1981 – “Toward a Christian Philosophy of the Humanities,” Dr. Henry Veatch (Video Unavailable)
