7.30 – Holy
Mass in the Chapel of the Seminary of Toruń
Plenary
session (Chair: Jörgen Vijgen)
9.00 – Introduction
9.15 – Martin Morard (CNRS – Paris) : Catena aurea electronica. New Perspectives on the Catena, its History
and Sources in Light of the ongoing Scientific Edition
10.00 – Carmelo Giuseppe Conticello (CNRS-Paris) : Theophylactus latinus. The Thomist Reception of Theophylact of Bulgary
10.45 – Discussion
11.15 – Coffee Break
- 11.30 – Round table session 1 (Chair: Piotr Roszak)
- 11.30 – Jörgen Vijgen (Belgium): The Patristic Sources of Thomas’ Treatment of Penance
- 12.15 –Joseph Arias (USA), Augustine and Aquinas on the Terminal State of Unbaptized Infants
- 12.45 – John Baptist Ku OP (USA): Divine Innascibility in the Theology of Ss. Gregory Nazianzen and Thomas Aquinas
- 13.45 – Lunch (Faculty of Theology, room 55)
- 15.00-15.30 – Book Presentation
- 15.30-17.00 – Paper presentations
- Session 1
15.30 – Gioacchino Curiello (UK): Thomas Aquinas on the Corpus Dionysiacum’s translations
16.00 – Andrej Kutarňa (Czech Republic): Hierarchy and Likeness – Ways to Union with God in Pseudo-Dionysius and Aquinas
16.30 – Tomasz Stępień (Poland): Essentia, virtutes operationes – Remarks on the Patristic Sources of Aquinas’ Methodology in the Summa Theologiae
15.30 – John Berry (Malta): Augustine and Aquinas on charity as friendship (amicitia)
16.00 – Blanca Gallostra (Spain): Aquinas’ Patristic Debts regarding the Doctrine of Glory
16.30 – Fainche Ryan (Ireland): Aquinas and Augustin on lying
15.30 – Mirosław Mróz (Poland): The Motif of ‘living water’ in the Conversation between Jesus and the Woman of Samaria. Patristic sources in the Exegesis of Aquinas in Jn 4: 1-42
16.00 – Austin Stevenson (UK): The Ignorance of Christ. Christological Logic and Patristic Interpretations of Mark 13:32
16.30 – Tinatin Mshvidobadze (Georgia): Thomas Aquinas’ Creation Analysis and the Effectiveness of Online Bible Dictionaries for the Study of Biblical Commentaries
- Session 4
15.30 – Jeffrey M. Walkey (USA): Habituation into Truth and The Exegetical Task: A Thomistic Metaphysical Apologia for the Role of Natural Knowledge in Scriptural Exegesis
16.00 – Jacco Verburgt (Netherlands): ‘Quia integram fidei veritatem continebat’: Some Thoughts on the Importance of the Pseudo-Athanasian Creed for Aquinas
16.30 – David Torrijos (Spain): The commentaries of Boethius and Aquinas on the De interpretatione of Aristotle
- 19.00 – Conference dinner in Collegium Maximum with concert (Polish
traditional music)
Friday, April 5th
- Plenary session (Chair: Piotr Roszak)
- 9.00 – Serge-Thomas Bonino O.P. (Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Rome) : The Place of the Church Fathers in the Angelology of St. Thomas Aquinas
- 9.45 –Enrique Alarcón (University of Navarra, Pamplona) : Albert the Great and the Reception of Pseudo-Dionysius’ Metaphysics of Being in Thomas Aquinas
- 11.15 – Round table session 2 (Chair: Mirosław Mróz)
- 11.15 – Piotr Roszak (Poland), How is the Patristic Method shaping Aquinas’ Sacra Doctrina?
- 11.45 – Randal Smith (USA): Thomas Aquinas, Irenaeus, and the Natural Law
- 12.15 – Michał Mrozek OP (Poland): The Treatise on the Virtues and on the Gifts in Light of the Patristic Sources quoted by Aquinas in the Summa Theologiae, I-II, q. 49-70
- 13.15 – Lunch (Faculty of Theology, room 55)
- 15.00-16.30 – Paper presentations
- Session 5
15.30 – Piotr Goniszewski (Polska): Intertextual approach to Aquinas’ quotations from the Church Fathers
16.00 – Martin Bai Ziqiang (Philippines): Relation in the Trinitarian Theology: St. Thomas and the Church Fathers
16.30 – Hugh Barbour OPraem (USA): Beatitudo est gaudium de veritate: St. Thomas’ use of the Confessions of St Augustine
15.00 – Laurem Simms (USA): The Ordination and Acts of the Baptismal Priesthood in Augustine, Chrysostom, and Aquinas
15.30 – Reginald Lynch OP (USA): Eucharistic Sacrifice and Moral Virtue in Aquinas and Augustine
16.00 – Magdalena Płotka (Poland): ‘Utrum fruendum sit solo Deo’: Thomas Aquinas on the Augustinian concept of secular enjoyment
- 16.30 – 17.00: Break
- 17.00-18.30: Paper presentations
Session 7
17.00 – Marcin Janecki (Poland): Secundum sententiam sanctorum patrum: usage de sources patristiques dans « Lectura super epistolam ad Galatas » de Thomas d’Aquin”.
17.30 – Andriy Oliynyk (Ukraine): St. Thomas Aquinas and St. John Chrysostom on private property
17.00 – Connor McDonough OP (Ireland): Christ’s headship of the Church in Augustine, the early scholastics, and Aquinas
17.30 – Mark Foudy (USA): How Cyril of Alexandria influenced Thomas Aquinas’ understanding of the Hypostatic Union and his rejection of the Homo-Assumptus Theory.
18.00 – Inês Bolinhas (Portugal): Mary Magdalene according to St. Thomas Aquinas
17.00 – Josh Blander (USA): Origen, Aquinas, and Scotus on Restoration from Sin, and the Possibility and Power for Sinning
17.30 – Carlos Augusto Casanova (Chile): Aquinas on sins of lust contra natura
18.00 – Jordan McFadden (Ireland): Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Aquinas on Immoral Dreams
Saturday, April
6th
- Plenary Session (Chair: Michal Mrozek OP)
- 9.00 – Dominic Legge O.P. (Dominican House of Studies, Washington D.C.): Aquinas and the Fathers on the Mind of Christ: Christ’s Human Knowledge and Our Salvation
- 9.45 – Anton ten Klooster (Tilburg University – Tilburg/Utrecht): Aquinas’ adaptation of Augustine’s interpretation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit
- 11.15 – Round table session 3 (Chair: Michal Mrozek OP)
- 11.15 – John O’Callaghan (USA): Aquinas and the Church Fathers: Compassion and Mercy
- 11.45 – Shawn Colberg (USA): Saint Thomas and Saint Augustine on Grace, Justification, and Merit
- 12.15 – Paul Rogers (UK), Church Fathers and the sensus fidelium: Conflict or Convergence?
12.45 – Discussion
- 13.15 – Concluding
session and discussion
- 14.00 – Lunch and End of Conference
- 16.00 – Guided Tour – Medieval Toruń