The cogitative power is a comparatively little-known topic in Aquinas’s philosophical psychology. Yet it is of great importance, since it constitutes the bridge between the embodied external senses and the imagination, on the one hand, and the immaterial intellect and universal reason, on the other. Analyzing the cogitative takes us back to its origins in […]
Chesterton House Founder Karl Johnson will give a talk at Cornell's Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) meeting. FCA seeks to use the powerful platform of sport to reach people with the transforming power of Jesus Christ.
"The real source of a desire for liberal learning is not and has never been a sense of guilt or obligation, and its reasons cannot be expressed in bureaucratic manifestos. The authentic spring of liberal learning is simple: It is love. This love often originates in an uneasy sense of having missed something important and […]
The Thomistic Institute chapter at Cornell University presents a lecture by Prof. Edward Feser titled “What is Matter? From Aristotle to Quantum Mechanics and Back Again.” Prof. Edward Feser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College and has also been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University. He received a Ph.D. in philosophy […]
Within the span of a week, things have changed quickly, unexpectedly, and uncomfortably. Over 250 colleges and universities have gone virtual overnight. What now? What if this disorienting season of quarantine is not simply isolating and inconvenient? What if it provides a space for reflection to ask some of life’s biggest questions and reorient ourselves […]
As we continue to explore the big questions in this unique—and virtual—season, we’ve been hearing students and others in the university community ask about COVID-19’s implications on the global economy, job opportunities, student loans, and more. For our second virtual Veritas Forum we’ll be engaging questions about the economic instability of this time, particularly for […]
As we continue to ask the big questions in this unique—and virtual—season, we are exploring something that Andy Crouch said in our first virtual Veritas Forum (watch here): “Lament is the seed of creativity.” For our third Forum, we’ll be engaging questions about lament, hope, and creativity. Join us with students from colleges and universities […]
To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement tells the story of a 50-year-old movement that has influenced generations of scholars and students in the United States and across the globe. In the late 1960s, when a new generation of evangelicals came of age in the midst of unprecedented […]
