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The
purpose of the Ralph McInerny Center for Thomistic Studies
is to foster a renewal of Thomistic studies in the contemporary
world. Today, in a culture that has lost unity of knowledge
and faces new challenges of relativism and nihilism, on the
one hand, and of globalization, on the other, Thomas Aquinas’s
life and thought set the right direction for a revival of
truth in ethics and metaphysics. The Ralph McInerny Center
aims at promoting a strong and accurate rereading of Aquinas’
philosophy and theology but, at the same time, it aims at
making Aquinas’ thought fruitfully converse with contemporary
culture, especially in the areas of bioethics, legal theory,
economics, political theory, literature, science, and sociology.
Ralph McInerny is an important figure among those who have
studied, preserved, and handed down Thomistic thought in the
late twentieth century. It is very fitting for a new research
center on Thomistic studies to be established in his honor
and build on his distinguished legacy. The Center will pursue
this goal by offering support for research scholars, organizing
conferences, providing internet resources, offering courses,
sponsoring a journal, and cooperating with like-minded institutes,
here and abroad. Eventually, the hope of the Center’s sponsors
is that it will be the core of a new international university.
Read
more about our Mission and Agenda
The McInerny Center is sponsored by the Corporation for Educational
Advancement, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt public charity. |
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