Summa Contra Gentiles Reading Group

Please join us as we pick and read the Angelic Doctor's shorter and more accessible epic Summa Contra Gentiles. Newcomers and "just listerners" always welcomed to attend as prior experience not expected. Interested? Please contact Dr. Anna Stelow (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). 

Location: Clark Library, Room 156 or 155
 
Spring 2024 Meeting Schedule
Thursday, February 15, 2024 (12:00-1:30pm), SCG III: 84-100 (On Human Will and Divine Action) 
Thursday, February 29, 2024 (12:00-1:30pm), SCG III: 101-118 (On Miracles and Divine Law)
Thursday, March 14, 2024 (12:00-1:30pm), SCG III: 109-110 (On Sin in Separated Substances), 114-118 (Why Divine Law), 119-129 (On Natural Acts, including Marriage) 
Thursday, April 4, 2024 (12:00-1:30pm), SCG III: TBD
Thursday, April 25, 2024 (12:00-1:30pm), SCG III: TBD
 
Thursday, December 14, 2023 (12:00-1:30pm), SCG III: 71-83 (On God's Providence)
Thursday, November 30, 2023 (12:00-1:30pm), SCG III: 58-70 (On God's Providence)
Thursday, Nov. 16, 2023 (12:30-2:00pm), SCG III: 38-57 (On the Capacities of Created Intellects)
Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023 (12:00-1:30pm), SCG III:17-37 (On Searching for Ultimate Felicity in all the Wrong Places)
Thursday, October 26, 2023 (12:00-1:30pm), SCG III: 3-16 (On Agency, Goodness, and Evil)
Thursday, October 12, 2023 (11:30-1:00pm), Review of SCG I & II + SCG III: Prologue, 1-2 (On Agents and their Actions)
 
Thursday, May 4, 2023 (12:00-1:30pm), SCG II: 91-101 (On Separated Substances)
Thursday, April 27, 2023 (12:00-1:30pm), SCG II: 73-90 (On Human Souls)
Thursday, April 13, 2023 (12:00-1:30pm), SCG II: 56-72 (On the Body-Soul Union)
Monday, April 3, 2023 (10:30-12:00pm), Review of  SCG Book II: 1-55
 
Friday, December 9, 2022 (9:30-11:00pm), SCG Book II: 39-55
Friday, December 2, 2022 (10:00-11:30am), SCG, Book II: 31-55
Friday, November 11, 2022 (10:00-11:30am), SCG, Book II (Creation): 1-30
Friday, Nov. 4, 2022 (9:30-11:00am), Review of Summa Contra Gentiles, Book I (God) 
 
Tuesday, May 3, 2022 (11:30-1:00pm), SCG I, 72-102
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 (11:30-1:00pm), SCG I, 53-72
Tuesday, March 29, 2022 (11:30-1:00pm), SCG I, 43-53
Tuesday, March 15, 2022 (11:30-1:00pm), SCG I, 28-43
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 (11:30-1:00pm), SCG I, 10-27
Tuesday, February 22, 2022 (11:30-1:00pm), SCG Book I,1-9
 
 
St. Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica Reading Group
St. Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica is one of the most important and widely recognized works of theological wisdom ever written, a master work for the ages that continues to frame the history of Christian thought in addition to the contemporary understanding of religion and philosophy. Despite its import and promise to unlock the pathway to wisdom and ultimate human happiness, university students, faculty and others generally know little about St. Thomas’s Summa. Various faculty and special experts will attend to assist our discussion of the text. Newcomers always welcomed to attend as prior experience not expected. Interested? Please contact Dr. Anna Stelow (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).
 
Fall 2020 Zooma Summa Schedule
Friday, December 11, 2020: On the Imago Dei in Us, I, 90-102
Friday, November 20, 2020: On the Human Soul and Body, I, 75-89
Friday, November 6, 2020: On the Trinity, I, 27-43
Friday, October 23, 2020: On God’s Knowledge, Truth, and the Will, Love, Justice and Mercy of God, I, qq.14-26
Friday, October 9, 2020: On Sacra Doctrina and God’s Existence and Nature, I, qq.1-13
 
2019-2020 Reading Group: Tertia Pars (On the Mystery of the Incarnation)
Friday, May 29, 2020: III, qq.73-90 (Eucharist, Penance)
Friday, May 22, 2020: III,qq.60-72 (Sacraments, Baptism, Confirmation)  
Friday, May 15, 2020: III,qq.52-59 (Descent into Hell, Resurrection, Ascension)
Friday, March 6, 2020: III,qq.46-51 (Suffering, Passion, Death, Burial)
Friday, February 14, 2020: III,qq.37-45 (Christ's Circumcision, Baptism, Life, and Miracles)
Friday, Dec. 13, 2019: III, qq. 27-36 (Immaculate Conception, Annunciation and Christ's Conception and Birth)
Friday, Nov. 22, 2019: III, qq. 16-26 (Christ the Mediator)
Friday, Nov. 8, 2019: III, qq. 7-15 (Grace of Christ)
Friday, Oct. 11, 2019: III, qq. 1-6 (The Incarnate Word)
 
2018-2019 Reading Group 
Friday, May 3, 2019: II-II, qq. 141-170 (On Temperance)
Friday, April 12, 2019: II-II, qq. 123-140 (On Fortitude,)
Friday, March 29, 2019:  II-II, qq. 81-86, 121 (On Religion, Prayer, Sacrifice, Piety)
Friday, March 1, 2019: II-II, qq. 57-65 (On Justice)
Friday, Feb. 15, 2019: II-II, qq. 47-56 (On Prudence)
Friday, Dec. 7, 2018: II-II, qq. 23-46 (On Charity)
Friday, Nov. 16, 2018: II-II, qq. 23-46 (On Charity)
Friday, Nov. 2, 2018: II-II, qq. 17-22 (On Hope)
Friday, Oct. 12, 2018: II-II, qq. 1-16 (On Faith)
 
2017-2018 Reading Group
May 4, 2018: Treatise on Law, Ia-IIae, qq. 109-114 (On Grace)
April 27, 2018: Treatise on Law, Ia-IIae, qq. 90-108 (On Law)
March 2, 2018: Treatise on Habits, Ia-IIae, qq. 71-89 (On Vice and Sin)
Feb. 16, 2018: Treatise on Habits, Ia-IIae, qq. 49-70 (On Habits and Virtue)
December 8, 2017: On Fear, Anger, and Habits (cont.)
December 1, 2017: On Fear, Anger, and Habits--Summa Th., II-I, qq.42-54.
November 17, 2017: On Love, Pleasure, Pain, and Sorrow--Summa Th., II-I, qq.27-41.
October 27, 2017: On Choice, Consent, and Consequences--Summa Th., II-I, qq. 13-26.
October 6, 2017: On Happiness and Our Will--Summa Th., II-I qq.1-12.
 
2016-2017 Reading Group
April 4, 2017: On Christ and his relation to us, Tertia Pars, qq. 1-59
March 17, 2017: On the Theological and Cardinal Virtues—Fr. Antoninus Niemiec, O.P. , Secunda Secundae, qq. 1-182
Feb. 17, 2017: On Virtues, Vices and the Law—Bill Wilson (Religious Studies), Anna Stelow (Classics) & Charles Kromkowski (Politics), Prima Secundae, qq. 49-114
Jan. 27, 2017: On Human Actions, Happiness and Love—with special guest Fr. James Brent, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies, Philosophy), Prima Secundae, qq. 1-48
Dec. 9, 2016: On Creation, the Soul, and the Unity of the Human Person—Bill Wilson (Religious Studies), Anna Stelow (Classics), and Jorge Secada (Philosophy), Prima Pars, qq. 44-119
Nov. 18, 2016: On the Trinity—Kevin Hart (Religious Studies), Prima Pars, qq. 27-43
Oct. 28, 2016: On God’s Knowledge, Truth, and the Will, Love, Justice and Mercy of God—Fr. Stephen Alcott, O.P./Fr. Antoninus Niemiec, O.P, Prima Pars, qq. 14-26
Sept. 23, 2016: Introduction, On Sacra Doctrina and God’s Existence and Nature—with special guest Bernard McGinn (University of Chicago), Prima Pars, qq. 1-13)
 

 

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