11.15
Lecture:
Lambert Hendriks (Major Seminary of Rolduc; Thomas Instituut)
Can God Make Acting Easy? A Reflection on the Characteristics of Acting faciliter in Relation to Infused Moral Virtues
11.45 - 12.15
16.00 - 16.30 IV Luca Gili (University of Louvain)
Can an Infused Virtue Be a Potential Part of a Natural Virtue? Thomas Aquinas on Patience
16.30 - 17.00 IV Joseph Lee Stenberg (University of Colorado)
Thomas Aquinas on the Relationship between Happiness and Virtue
Discussion
12.30
Lunch
14.00
Paper presentations III and IV (parallel)
Location: Nieuwegracht 61, Aeneas Room (III) and Cellar (IV)
14.00 - 14.30 III
14.30 - 15.00 III
Miroslaw Mroz (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun)
The Significance and Position of the Infused Moral Virtue of Fortitude for the Christian Life in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas
Alina Beary (Baylor University)
Acquired and Infused Temperance: A Family Resemblance?
14.00 - 14.30 IV Fáinche Ryan (Trinity College, Dublin)
Prudentia, An Intellectual Virtue within the Moral Life: A study of the Virtue of prudentia in Aquinas’ Account of a Moral Life as ultimately Directed by the Infused Virtues of Faith, Hope and Caritas.
14.30 - 15.00 IV Reginald M. Lynch OP (University of Notre Dame)
Friendship and the Theological Life
Break
Coffee, tea
15.30 - 16.00 III
16.00 - 16.30 III
16.30 - 17.00 III
Anton ten Klooster (Tilburg University, Thomas Instituut)
Acts of the Virtues: The Contribution of Aquinas’s Lectura on Matthew
Paul M. Rogers (Emmanuel College, Cambridge)
Questioning the Virtues-Gifts of the Holy Spirit Schema in
Thomas’s Account of the Moral Life and Possible Solutions in
his Commentary on Romans
John Berkman (Regis College, University of Toronto)
In the Power of the Holy Spirit: Aquinas’ Ethics after Thomistic Virtue Ethics
15.30 - 16.00 IV Matthew Kostelecky (University of Alberta, Edmonton )
Primum cognitum and the Immediate Love of God in This Life:
Reflections on the Importance of Charity in the Speculative Thought of Thomas Aquinas
17.30
Celebration of the H.Eucharist in St. Catharine’s Cathedral, presided
by His Excellency drs. Th.C. Hoogenboom, auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Utrecht (Lange Nieuwstraat 36)
19.00 - 22.00 Conference Dinner (Courthotel, Korte Nieuwstraat 14, Utrecht)
SATURDAY DECEMBER 19
9.30
Lecture:
John O’Callaghan (University of Notre Dame)
Two Forms of Forgiveness: Natural and Theological
10.00
Lecture:
Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt (Loyola University Maryland)
Infused Moral Virtues and the Infused Knowledge of Christ
10.30
Discussion
11.00 Coffee, tea
11.30
Concluding session
S tarting with short reflections on the conference theme
by the invited lecturers
13.00
End of Conference
13.00 - 14.00
Lunch
14.00
Excursion to the archeological exposition DOMunder and guided walk through downtown Utrecht (free; information and registration during the conference).
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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
The Virtuous Life
Thomas Aquinas on the Theological Nature of Moral Virtues
Utrecht, December 16-19, 2015
Ariënsinstituut, Keistraat 9, 3512 HV Utrecht
Nieuwegracht 61, 3512 LG Utrecht
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 16
THURSDAY DECEMBER 17
13.30Registration, Coffee, tea
9.30Invited lecture:
Andrew Pinsent (Oxford University)
Who’s Afraid of the Infused Virtues?
The Philosophy of Theological Dispositions
10.15Discussion
15.00Word of welcome
Marcel Sarot,
Dean of the School of Catholic Theology of Tilburg University
15.05Welcome, opening address
Henk Schoot (Director Thomas Instituut te Utrecht)
Infused Moral Virtues: the Stakes
15.30Invited lecture:
Angela Knobel McCay (Catholic University of America, Washington)
A Confusing Comparison: Interpreting De Virtutibus in Communi a.10 ad 4
16.15Discussion
16.30Invited lecture:
David Decosimo (Boston University)
Ethics as a Work of Charity: Who Gets Which Virtues?
10.30Coffee, tea
11.45 - 12.15
17.00 - 17.30 II Kevin G. Grove CSC (University of Notre Dame)
The Intelligibility of Desire: The Christology of Aquinas’ Treatment of Evangelical Counsels
Discussion
17.30 - 18.00 Short break, snacks
18.00Lecture:
Rudi te Velde (Tilburg University, Thomas Instituut)
How Can Charity Teach Us to Be Prudent and Just?
14.00Paper presentations (parallel in group I and in group II):
Location: Nieuwegracht 61, Aeneas Room (I) and Cellar (II)
14.00 - 14.30 I Thomas Machula (University of South Bohemia)
Infused Moral Virtues as a Thomistic Heritage
14.30 - 15.00 I Timothy López (University of Louvain)
Grace and the Virtues of Natural happiness: Extrinsic Ordination and Per Accidens Causation
19.30End
15.30 - 16.00 II Michal Mrozek OP (Thomas Institute, Warsaw)
The Virtuous Life: Thomas Aquinas on the Theological Nature of Moral Virtues
16.00 - 16.30 II Reynaldo A. Reyes (University of Santo Tomas, Manila)
Aquinas on the Metaphysical Assumptions of Infused and Acquired Virtues
BreakCoffee, tea
17.00 - 17.30 I Richard J. Dougherty (University of Dallas)
St. Thomas on the Acquisition of Virtue and the Natural Law
17.30 - 18.00 I Jörgen Vijgen (Seminary De Tiltenberg, Haarlem)
Aquinas’s Moral Theology and the Problem of Aristotle’s Heroic Virtues
12.30Lunch
19.00Discussion
Rik van Nieuwenhove (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick)
Aquinas on Contemplation:
Some Observations Pertinent to the Christian Life
Lloyd Newton (University of Louvain)
Do Christians Have Acquired or only Infused Virtues?
10.45Lecture:
Thomas M. Osborne jr. (University of St. Thomas, Houston)
What is at Stake in the Question of Whether Someone Can Possess the Natural Moral Virtues without Charity?
11.15Lecture:
Harm J. Goris (Tilburg University, Thomas Instituut)
Wounds of Sin and the Infused Moral Virtues
17.15Discussion
18.30Lecture:
Randall Smith (University of St. Thomas, Houston)
How Faith Perfects Prudence
15.30 - 16.00 I
16.00 - 16.30 I
14.00 - 14.30 II
14.30 - 15.00 II
Dominic Farrell LC (Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, Roma)
Two Visions of Virtue? Aquinas on Revelation and Moral Virtue
Joseph Arias (Christendom College, Alexandria VA)
The Infused Virtues and the Secunda Pars in the Context
of the Divine Processions
BreakCoffee, tea
FRIDAY DECEMBER 18
9.30Invited lecture:
William C. Mattison III (Catholic University of America, Washington)
The Scriptural foundations of Thomistic Infused Virtue:
Infused Prudence in the Sermon on the Mount
10.15Discussion
10.30Coffee
10.45Lecture:
Michael Sherwin O.P. (Université de Fribourg)
Fire Grows in Water:
Thomas Aquinas’ Interpretation of Virtue in the Scriptures