Stanford University

The Thomistic Institute chapter at Stanford presents a lecture in association with the Catholic Community at Stanford by Fr. Bernhard Blankenhorn of the Angelicum titled “Aquinas on Mystical Union with God”.

Old Union 302, Common Room

Monday, Nov. 18

6:30 PM

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the speaker:

Fr. Bernhard is professor of theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome and associate director of its Thomistic Institute. He did his doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, under the direction of Gilles Emery. He has published The Mystery of Union with God: Dionysian Mysticism in Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas (CUA Press, 2015). He is completing a textbook on the Eucharist. His other research interests include medieval Dominican mystical theologies, the function of metaphysics in theology, the grace/nature relation, the notion of revelation, the development of doctrine and the charisms.