Invited Plenary Speakers*

Michael Barber,

-The Augustine Institute,

-“Exegesis as Theology: Towards a Ratzingerian Thomism”

Gerald Boersma

-Ave Maria University

-“The Use of Scripture in Aquinas’s Theology of Resurrected Bodies and the Separated Soul”

John Boyle

-University of St. Thomas

-“Carnal and Spiritual Readings of Scripture: Considerations for the Relationship of Thomas’s Systematic Theology and Scriptural Commentary”

Michael Dauphinais

-Ave Maria University

-“The Role of Christ and the Oikonomia in Aquinas’s Theology of Prophecy, Faith, and Revelation”

Fr. William Goldin

-St. Irenaeus Catholic Church

-“The Relation of the Old and New Covenants in Aquinas’s Theological Reading of the Sacred Scriptures”

Michael Hahn

-Christendom College

-“The Augustinian Foundations of Aquinas’s Account of Christ’s Fulfillment of the Old Law”

John Kincaid and James Prothro

-St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology and Ave Maria University

-“Aquinas and Pauline Pistis: Forming an Account of Justifying Faith”

Steven Long

-Ave Maria University

-“Aquinas’s Understanding of Divine Transcendence and Sacred Scripture”

Roger Nutt

-Ave Maria University,

-“‘Obedient unto Death’: St. Thomas on Christ, Salvation, and the Philippians Hymn”

Brant Pitre

-The Augustine Institute

-TBD

Matthew Ramage

-Benedictine College

-“Through a Glass, Darkly: Biblical Faith according to Benedict XVI and Thomas Aquinas”

Michael Sirilla

-Franciscan University of Steubenville

-“Lectio Scripturae at the Heart of Aquinas’s Theology and Preaching”

Randall Smith

-University of St. Thomas

-“How Thomas’s Biblical Commentaries Prepared Students for Preaching”

Michael Waldstein

-St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology

-“The Literary and Theological Structure of Scripture according to St. Thomas”

*Some of these speakers may be assigned to concurrent sessions