From Pure Nature to Wounded Nature: Aquinas on the Starting Point for Virtue Theory | Dr Jacob Wood

This lecture was given on September 10, 2021 at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. as part of the Annual Fall Thomistic Circles Conference on "Virtue and Divine Grace." The handout for this lecture can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/2afevszt About the speaker: Jacob W. Wood is Associate Professor of Theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville, and holds a doctorate from Catholic University of America. Wood's work focuses on theological anthropology in medieval, early modern, and contemporary theology, and he is particularly interested in how the retrieval of the sources of modern theology can help provide answers to questions about the relationships between the natural and the supernatural, sin and grace, and the human and the divine. He is the author most recently of To Stir a Restless Heart: Thomas Aquinas and Henri de Lubac on Nature, Grace, and the Desire for God (Washington DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2019), as well as Speaking the Love of God: An Introduction to the Sacraments (Steubenville, OH: Emmaus Road, 2016).