Events
Let the Best One Win: Reflections of Friendship and Competition
A lecture by Prof. Micahel Krom (St. Vincent College)
When:
November 13, 2025 | 7:00 PM EST
Chapter:
Indiana University
Location:
Woodburn Hall Room 003
This lecture is free and open to the public. No pre-registration is required.
About the speaker:
Michael Krom started reading Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae shortly after his conversion at the end of college. Upon learning about Flannery O’Connor’s “hillbilly Thomist” habit of reading Aquinas every night, he started studying two articles a day and completed the Summa while in graduate school at Emory University. As a professor at Saint Vincent College, he saw the urgent need for collegians and seminarians to receive a solid foundation in Aquinas’s philosophical theology. In 2020, he published Justice and Charity: An Introduction to Aquinas’s Moral, Economic, and Political Thought (Baker Academic Press), and teaches a Thomistic philosophy course each fall. In addition to continuing work on the moral, economic, and political topics covered in the book, his current research is on the influence of monastic spirituality on Aquinas; he is working on a monograph tentatively entitled Aquinas Among the Benedictines.
This event is made possible through the support of Grant 63391 from the John Templeton Foundation. The opinions expressed in this event are those of the speakers and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation.