Laudato Si’ called the Catholic community to an ecological conversion, a reorientation of our habits of mind toward a deeper consideration of creation and our responsibilities for its care. Is this a radical innovation? Or can we discern an intellectual patrimony at the heart of the discussion? In this lecture, Christopher Thompson invites us to reflect more deeply on the elements of ecological concern and consider the intellectual tradition inspired by St. Thomas Aquinas as a resource and guide going forward. “Green Thomism,” Thompson proposes, opens a path toward a renewed engagement with the Thomistic tradition as well as its contribution to contemporary ecological concern.
Christopher Thompson is a professor of moral theology at The Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity of the University of St. Thomas in Saint Paul, MN.
Free and open to the public.
This event is made possible by support from the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, College of Arts and Letters, Jacques Maritain Center, College of Science, Environmental Change Initiative, McGrath Institute for Church Life, Department of Philosophy, and Center for Social Concerns.
Originally published at ctshf.nd.edu.