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Fidelity & ExcellenceThomas Aquinas College is unique among American colleges and universities, offering a faithfully Catholic education comprised entirely of the Great Books and classroom discussions.
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Faith & Reason at Spring All-College Seminar
As the temperature dropped below freezing last Friday evening, TAC-New England students rushed to St. Gianna Molla Hall for the second All-College Seminar of the academic year — desperate to beat the cold and enjoy a hearty theological discussion!
A semi-annual event that unites the entire community, the All-College Seminar has become a well-loved Thomas Aquinas College tradition. One Friday evening each semester, groups of about 20 students from all classes — seniors and freshmen, sophomores and juniors — gather in classrooms to read, analyze, and discuss the same text, one that is not part of the College’s ordinary curriculum. Two members of the teaching faculty lead each of the discussions.
The chosen text for this semester was the first nine chapters from Book One of St. Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Contra Gentiles, dealing with how man can come to know divine truths through both natural reason and divine revelation. Groups avidly discussed the text under the guidance their tutors. Their members contemplated the work of the wise man in the pursuit of truth and dispelling of errors, the role of miracles in regards to faith and reason, and whether it is possible for man to desire God.
After the seminar, students bundled up once again and hurried to the Bl. Frassati Center to meet up with their friends and enjoy some hot pizza. Discussions continued as students compared opening questions and further debated concepts with fresh groups of peers.
“I think these seminars are especially helpful for the underclassmen,” said Anna Santschi (’24). “They get to see how the Discussion Method functions on a higher level by observing how the juniors and seniors argue and use what they have learned in their regular sections.”
