by Beth Mortensen | Jan 28, 2023 | Academics, Publications, Texts
Happy feast of St. Thomas Aquinas! This year marks the Aquinas Institute’s 15th anniversary of promoting St. Thomas’s way of thinking, studying, and loving. In order to celebrate we will be collecting donations and subscriptions from which we will draw seven lucky...
by Beth Mortensen | Dec 12, 2022 | Publications
There’s a certain sweet appropriateness to our announcement today of our publication of the last remaining Scriptural commentary in the Aquinas opera omnia, the Commentary on Jeremiah. St. Thomas prefaces this commentary with a quote from 2 Maccabees that refers to...
by Beth Mortensen | Jan 28, 2022 | Publications
I once heard a homily on the feast of Thomas Aquinas in which the Dominican homilist pointed out that St. Thomas was essentially and fundamentally a holy theologian. He lived out his holiness by doing theology, and he got to heaven, was canonized, and was named the...
by Beth Mortensen | Jan 8, 2022 | Publications
It is with great joy that we announce our forthcoming translation of Thomas Aquinas’s Commentary on the Psalms, available for pre-order here, in a new translation by Sr. Albert Marie Surmanski, OP and Sr. Maria Veritas Marks, OP. St. Thomas’s prologue to this work...
by Beth Mortensen | Nov 15, 2021 | Publications
Despite being one of only a handful of saints with the title “Great,†St. Albert seems to live in the shadow of his greatest pupil, St. Thomas Aquinas. Any description of the life of this doctor of the Church necessarily focuses on the fact that he was St....
