Oxford University

The Thomistic Institute at Oxford University presents by Prof. Mats Wahlberg of Umeå University titled “How Is Revealed Knowledge Justified? Aquinas on Faith and Reason.”

Monday, June 5

7:30 PM

Blackfriars

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Topic:

In this talk, I will relate Aquinas’s view of faith to contemporary perspectives in analytic philosophy about epistemic justification and the epistemological status of testimony. The main question I will address is how we can be justified in believing things on the basis of divine testimony, mediated through Scripture and Tradition.

About the Speaker:

Mats Wahlberg is associate professor of systematic theology at Umeå University, Sweden. He has written two books: Reshaping Natural Theology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and Revelation as Testimony (Eerdmans, 2014), as well as many scholarly articles. His research about the problem of evil has received funding from the John Templeton Foundation. In 2021, he was the visiting Aquinas Chair at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) in Rome.