Contemplating the Faith in Umbria
A friend has asked me to spread the word about this great opportunity. From June 16-29th, the St. Albert the Great Center for Scholastic Studies will hold a summer session in Norcia. In partnership with the Monasterro San Benedetto, this will be the third year they have held the Summer Institute. The St. Albert the Great Center is dedicated to the revival of higher studies in theology undertaken according to the mind and method of the great scholastics, and in particular the work of St. Thomas Aquinas. This summer's program is focusing on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans. With the sacred text as our primary source, we will also follow along the interpretive tradition of the Church by reading commentaries of the Fathers and in particular St. Thomas's commentary on the epistle. In many ways, the epistle is already an early synthesis of the Faith that the Evangelists witness to, and it offers us the opportunity to explore in depth many theological questions suc...