St. John's College Spring Lecture Series: Memory-Book: Prologues to the Summa of Theology

February 10, Mark Jordan, Richard Reinhard Niebuhr Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School, will present “Memory-Book: Prologues to the Summa of Theology.”

Re-reading Thomas Aquinas’s prologues to the stages of the Summa, Jordan will describe asceticism of memory as one practice for learning Christian theology in its wholeness. He will then ask what that practice could mean for contemporary readers who approach pieces of the Summa with quite different memories of Christian contradictions — or none at all.