THE AQUINAS CENTER & THE THOMISTIC INSTITUTE
 
Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology
February 6-8, 2020 (Schedule Subject to Changes)
 
Thursday, February 6 
 
Mass is offered at 7:30 a.m., 12:00 p.m., and 5:00 p.m. at Ave Maria Catholic Church and at 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. in Guadalupe Chapel located in Xavier Hall.
 
12:00 – 8:00 p.m.   Registration, Prince Building (Outside of the O’Bryan Performance Hall)  
 
2:30 – 4:00 p.m. Concurrent Session: 
Joel Gallagher, The Catholic University of America, “‘We are Saved by Love’: Teaching the Soteriology of Thomas Aquinas” Daniel Garland, Ave Maria University, “Lord, Liar, or Lunatic?: Aquinas on the Divinity of the Johannine Christ” Ross McCullough, George Fox University, “The Problem of Evil and the Gratuity of Grace: Does Innocent Suffering Require the Incarnation?”
 
Concurrent Session: 
Chase J. Cloutier, The Catholic University of America, “In Search of an ‘Existential Christology’: Aquinas and Kasper on Christ’s Human Experience” Michael De Salvo, Ave Maria University, “‘The Fruit of the True Body Received’: The Unity of the Church and the Duality of Christ’s Natures” Daniel Waldow, Duquesne University, “Christ the King: Aquinas' De Regno and the Social Ramifications of the Incarnation”
 
Concurrent Session: 
Cathal Doherty, SJ, University of San Francisco, “Christology and Sacrament: on the necessary distinction of opus operatum and opus operantis” Fr. Robert Garrity, Ave Maria University, “Aquinas’ Experiential-Mystical Christology as a Source for Spiritual-Theological Renewal Today” Steven Duby, Grand Canyon University, “Christ’s Divinity and the Drama of the Economy”
 
4:30 – 6:00 p.m.  Concurrent Session: 
Roger Nutt, Ave Maria University, “The Unity of Christ and Problems in Contemporary Christology: Considerations from article 4 of Aquinas’s De unione verbi incarnati” Fr. John Emery, OP, Universidad del Notre Santo Tomás de Aquino, “A Christology of Communication: Christ's Charity according to Thomas Aquinas” Gerald Boersma, Ave Maria University, “The Spiritual Senses in Aquinas’s Christology”

Concurrent Session: 
Mark Foudy, Boston College, “Christ Foreshadowed in the Book of Psalms: Aquinas, Protestantism, and the Crisis of Faith” James Prothro, Ave Maria University, “Rise, Sit, and Judge: New Testament Reception of Psalm 110 and Thomas’s Christological Exegesis” Fr. Mike Johns, Diocese of Little Rock, AR, “St. Thomas Aquinas and Raymond Brown on John 15:15”
 
Concurrent Session: 
Randall Johnson, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, “Christ and the Principle of Alternative Possibilities” Fred Sanders, Biola University, “Sonship Sent and Lived: Trinitarian Mission and the Mysteries of the Life of Jesus” Sarah Kaiser, Ave Maria University, “The Humility of Christ: An application of the general teaching of St. Thomas on humility to the unique case of Christ”
 
Concurrent Session: 
Catherine Yanko, The Catholic University of America, “Reverencing the Defects of Christ: A Thomistic Inquiry of the Reception of Christ’s Salvific Act” James Kelly, Boston College, “Jesus, ‘Parable of God:’ The Christology of James Martin, S.J.” Daniel Lendman, Ave Maria University, “The Efficient Causality of the Resurrection of Christ as Universal Head of All Mankind”
 
6:00 p.m. Dinner: Guests are welcome to enjoy dinner at their leisure, on their own
 
7:15 p.m. Opening Conference Welcome  O’Bryan Performance Hall
 
7:30 – 8:45 p.m. Plenary Session:  O’Bryan Performance Hall
Nathan Eubank, University of Notre Dame, “The Merit of Christ” Guy Mansini, OSB, Ave Maria University, “The Authority and Charity of Christ”
 
Friday, February 7
 
Mass is offered at 7:30 a.m., 12:00 p.m., and 5:00 p.m. at Ave Maria Catholic Church and at 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. in Guadalupe Chapel located in Xavier Hall.
 
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. Registration, Prince Building (Outside of the O’Bryan Performance Hall)             

8:30 – 10:00 a.m.  Concurrent Session: 
Michael Dauphinais, Ave Maria University, “The Universal Christ is the Particular Jesus and Vice Versa: What Fr. Richard Rohr Might Learn from St. Thomas ” Fr. Simon Francis Gaine, OP, Blackfriars, Oxford, “Must an incarnate divine person enjoy the beatific vision?” John Rziha, Benedictine College, “The Human Nature as Instrument of the Divine Nature in Christ”
 
Concurrent Session: 
Aaron Henderson, Ave Maria University, “The Christological Implications of a False Identification of Original Sin and Pure Nature” Cody Feikles, Cardinal Gibbons High School, “The Danger of Admitting to Faith in Christ” Daniel Fitzpatrick, Holy Apostles College and Seminary, “Cause and the Liturgy: Toward Reform of the Reform”
 
Concurrent Session: 
T. Adam Van Wart, Ave Maria University, “An Incarnational Grammar: Leontius of Byzantium & Aquinas on the Christological Use of Concrete & Abstract Terms” David Whidden, Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University, “Aquinas and Anselm on the Satisfaction of Christ” David Mahfood, Johnson University, “Christ, God’s Satisfying Self-Utterance: Anselm’s Theology of Atonement in Light of His Doctrine of God”
 
Concurrent Session: 
David Moser, Southern Methodist University, “Instrumentum divinitatis:  How Aquinas Resolved a Problem in Two-Energies Christology” Veronica Arntz, Marquette University, “Defending the Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas's Sacramental Theology in Discussion with Karl Rahner’sTheology” Jeffrey Baynham, The Catholic University of America, “Christ the Teacher in the Johannine Commentaries of Augustine and Aquinas”
 
10:30 – 11:45 a.m. Plenary Session:  O’Bryan Performance Hall
Brant Pitre, Augustine Institute, “Thomas Aquinas and the Jewish Roots of Jesus’ Divine Identity in the Synoptics” Paul Gondreau, Providence College, “‘No More Docetism!’: Aquinas on Christ's Male Sexuality as Integral to His Full Humanity”
 
11:45 a.m. Lunch: Lunch is available to purchase in the Bob Thomas Student Union Cafeteria. The Private Dining Room is reserved for conference participants.
 
1:30 – 2:45 p.m. Plenary Session:  O’Bryan Performance Hall
 Anthony Giambrone, OP, École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem, “Primitive Christology as Ancient Philosophy” Oliver Crisp, University of St. Andrews, “Christ, the Divine Idea”

3:00 – 4:30 p.m.  Concurrent Session: 
Michael Barber, Augustine Institute, “The Priesthood of Christ and His Apostles: Aquinas and Sacerdotal Imagery in the Gospels” Jon Kirwan, University of St. Thomas, “The Priesthood of Christ and the Crisis of the Priesthood: Garrigou-Lagrange and Jacques Maritain on the Disputed Legacy of the French School” Fr. Reginald Lynch, OP, University of Notre Dame, “Cajetan on Christ’s Priestly Sacrifice”
 
Concurrent Session:  
Christopher Cleveland, Independent Scholar, “The Lord of Grace: The Grace of Christ in Aquinas” Brendan Case, Baylor University, “Christ as Justifier and the Reasons for the Incarnation: Reading Aquinas with Robert Grosseteste” *Bradley Cypher, Ave Maria University, “In Defense of Miracles: A Thomistic Apology for Christ’s Divinity”
 
Concurrent Session:  Fr. Peter Gautsch, OP, Providence College, “Capital Glory: The Transfiguration of Christ and the Beatific Vision of the Blessed”  Fr. Charles Rochas, Emmanuel School of Mission, “The Beatific Vision of the Earthly Christ According to Saint Thomas Aquinas” Fr. Matthew Hysell, Dominican University College, “Christ’s Beatific Vision and the (Intellectual) Gifts of the Holy Spirit: A Thomistic Rejoinder and Invitation”
 
Concurrent Session: 
Jordan Haddad, Notre Dame Seminary Graduate School of Theology, “Is It Fitting to Think that Christ Suffered From Illness and Disease? Re-Examining Thomas’ Thesis in Light of the Developments of Microbiology” Christopher Hauser, Rutgers University, “Aquinas on the Christological Coherence Problem” Rocky Brittain, St. Mary’s Catholic High School, “Title”
 
5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker:  O’Bryan Performance Hall
Bruce Marshall, Southern Methodist University, “God Almighty in the Flesh: Christology and the Crisis of Faith”   6:30 – 7:30 p.m. Cocktails [Speakers Only] Bob Thomas Student Union Private Dining Room
 
7:30 – 8:30 p.m. Dinner [Invite Only] Bob Thomas Student Union Private Dining Room  

Saturday, February 8
 
Mass is offered at 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. at Ave Maria Catholic Church and at 7:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. in Guadalupe Chapel located in Xavier Hall.
 
7:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.  Registration, Prince Building (Outside of the O’Bryan Performance Hall)     
 
8:00 – 9:30 a.m.  Concurrent Session:
Hans Boersma, Nashotah House, “Spirituality and Beatific Vision: The Transfiguration in Aquinas and Palamas”  Michael Waldstein, Franciscan University of Steubenville, “Who is ‘Who’ in ‘But who do you say I am’? The Anti-Sabellian Strand in St. Thomas’s Christology” Fr. Sebastian Walshe, O.Praem, St. Michael's Abbey, “The Analogy of the Word of God as a Principle of Biblical Interpretation in Aquinas”
 
Concurrent Session:  
Dutton Kearney, Hillsdale College, “Aquinas on the Mystical Body of Christ” Andrew Jaeger and Jeremy Sienkiewicz, Benedictine College, “Mysterium Fidei: Analytic Christology and the Tower of Babel” John Kern, Boston College, “Charismatic Head, Charismatic Members: Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas on Christ’s Gratia Gratis Data”
 
Concurrent Session: 
Andrew Kuenstle, Ave Maria University, “Christus Victor: Aquinas’ Use of Charity in Atonement Theology” Joshua Lim, University of Notre Dame, “An Encyclopedic Pico della Mirandola?: ReThinking Saint Thomas’s Teaching on Christ’s Infused Knowledge” Mark Heffley, Ave Maria University, “Chalcedonian Morality: Thomistic Ontology and Moral Theology”
 
Concurrent Session: 
John O’Neill, Ave Maria University, “The Primacy of Christ as the Author of Sanctification: A Plausible Thomistic Alternative to Scotus and the Salmanticences on the Motive of the Incarnation” Eric Mabry, Christ the King Seminary, “Habeat Esse Creatum: The Mystery of Christ’s Being and the Christology of Thomas Aquinas” Luke Murray, St. Lawrence Institute for Faith and Culture, “How to evangelize like St. Paul: Cornelius a Lapide’s introduction to Romans”
 
9:45 – 11:00 a.m. Plenary Session:  O’Bryan Performance Hall
Dominic Legge, OP, Dominican House of Studies, “Recovering the Whole Christ: Contemporary Christology and the ‘Two Esse’ Debate” Matthew Ramage, Benedictine College, “Putting the Last Adam First: Aquinas, Ratzinger, and Human Origins in Light of Kenotic Christology”
 
11:00 a.m. Lunch: Lunch is available to purchase in the Bob Thomas Student Union Cafeteria.
 
12:30 – 1:45 p.m. Plenary Session:  O’Bryan Performance Hall
Dominic Langevin, OP, Dominican House of Studies, “Christological Falsehood and Sacramental Truth: Intention and Faith in the Sacramental Minister” Daria Spezzano, Providence College, “Is Jesus Judgmental? Aquinas on Christ as Eschatological Judge”

2:00 – 3:30 p.m.  Concurrent Session: 
John Sehorn, Augustine Institute, “Christ’s Miracles and the Christian Faithful According to St Thomas Aquinas” Fr. Andrew Hofer, OP, Dominican House of Studies, “Thomas Aquinas on Christ's Judgment in the Crisis of Christology” Ivan Bodrozic, University of Split, “Saint Thomas Aquinas’ Intrepretation of the FifthCentury Christological Crisis”
 
Concurrent Session:  
Daniel W. Houck, John Leland Center for Theological Studies, “Aquinas on the Sinlessness of Christ” Jane Sloan Peters, Marquette University, “Cyril of Alexandria’s Exegetical Contribution to Thomistic Christology” Corey Stephan, Marquette University, “‘Medium tenens’: Summa Theologica III, Q. 2, A. 6 & the Transcendence of Orthodoxy”
 
Concurrent Session:
Austin Stevenson, University of Cambridge, “Personal Identity and Hypostasis: The Christological Crisis of ‘Personhood’” Fr. Peter Totleben, OP, Pontifical College Josephinum, “The Foundations of Fittingness: Necessity and Contingency in the Economy” Andrew Belfield, Boston College, “The Summa halensis and Thomas Aquinas on the Grace of Union”
 
Concurrent Session: 
Rev. Jason Pickard, University of Otago, “‘The Exact Imprint of His Nature’:  Thomas Aquinas and the Reformed Departure (?) from a Two Nature Christology” Michael Wahl, Providence College, “‘The Supreme Model of Perfection’: Aquinas on the Fullness and Growth of Christ's Virtue” Susan Waldstein, Franciscan University of Steubenville, “The Two Births of Christ in Aquinas and Charles de Koninick”
 
5:15 – 6:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker:  O’Bryan Performance Hall
Thomas Joseph White, OP, Angelicum, “The Trinitarian Consciousness of Christ”
 
6:30 p.m. Closing of the Conference  O’Bryan Performance Hall
 
6:45 p.m. Dinner: Guests are welcome to enjoy dinner at their leisure, on their own
 
Sunday, February 9
 
Mass is offered at 8:00 a.m., 10:00 a.m., 12:30 p.m., and 7:30 p.m. at Ave Maria Catholic Church and at 11:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. in Guadalupe Chapel located in Xavier Hall.