Inside the Core: Scholars' Forum in the CIT

Inside the University Core this week, the last Scholars’ Forum in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition for the spring semester will feature Justin Anderson, department chair and professor of Moral Theology in Immaculate Conception Seminary and School of Theology at 4 p.m., Wednesday, April 22, on Teams. Anderson will be discussing three books, instead of one, as they are all inter-related:

• Ignatius of Loyola and Thomas Aquinas: A Jesuit Ressourcement, CUA 2024
• The Roman School (Jesuit Studies, 43), Brill 2024
• Aquinas’s Summa and Jesuit Ethics: A Call for Ressourcement, CUA 2026.

These books deal with topics integral to the Catholic intellectual tradition and very important to the Core, in which Thomas Aquinas is an important author in the Core II syllabus and Jesuit theology is deeply significant in Catholic religious thought, particularly in the thought of Pope Francis, the first Jesuit Pope and another author whose works we study in the Core.

Anderson is the author of other books as well: Virtue and Grace in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and Pursuing the Honorable: Reawakening Honor in the Modern Military (Lexington Books, 2019). He is also the author of many other book chapters and articles.

Justin Anderson has an international education, with a Ph.D. from the Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, (Louvain), 2011, an M.Phil. (Masters in Philosophy) from the Institute of Philosophy, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, (Louvain) 2008; an MA from Gonzaga University, 2007; a Ph.L. (License in Philosophy) from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum), 2007; and an S.T.B. (Sacred Theology Bachelors) from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Urbe, 2003. He brings his scholarship into the classes he teaches in the seminary and also to the Core.

The Core is fortunate to have Justin Anderson as one of its Rome Connection faculty for the spring semester of 2026. He brings a rich experience of international study to his students, many of whom may be having this kind of experience for the first time in their lives.

Here is the Teams link for the event.

And here is the link for the most recent of Justin Anderson’s books.

The Scholars’ Forum in the CIT is sponsored by the University Core, ICSST, the Catholic Studies Program and the Catholic Studies Center.

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