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Bernard McGinn Lecture: "Contemplatio sapientialis: Thomas Aquinas’s Contribution to Mystical Theology"

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Location: Medieval Institute Reading Room (715 Hesburgh Library) (View on map.nd.edu)

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Bernard McGinn will deliver a lecture entitled "Contemplatio sapientialis: Thomas Aquinas’s Contribution to Mystical Theology." The lecture will be held at 5 pm on Thursday, November 9, 2017 in the Medieval Institute Reading Room (715 Hesburgh Library), with a reception to follow.

Prof. McGinn is the Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor emeritus at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, where he taught between 1969 and 2003, and a 2017-18 Residential Fellow of Notre Dame’s Institute for Advanced Study. He has written extensively on apocalypticism, as well as spirituality and mysticism. In 2014 he published Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae: A Biography (Princeton). He is a former President of the Medieval Academy of America.