After Laudato Si'

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Location: Saint Mary's College - Student Center

Perhaps the most enduring theological legacy of Pope Francis's encyclical, Laudato Si', will be its ecological expansion of human dignity. Surprisingly silent in that expansion, however, is commentary on Thomas Aquinas. This lecture considers reasons for the perfunctory treatment of Thomas in an environmental encyclical, sketches alternative readings of Thomas friendly to the encyclical's theological project, and places both encyclical and broader tradition in the context of global environmental thought.

After Laudato Si'