Aquinas & “The Arabs” International Working Group
at 2013 Fall ACPA Indianapolis
Aquinas and the ‘Arabs’ I
Organizer: Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University
Chair: Luis X. Lopéz-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana Mexico City
Speaker: Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University
“Divine Will in the Plotiniana Arabica and Avicenna”
Commentator: Luis X. Lopéz-Farjeat, Universidad Panamericana Mexico City
Speaker: Sarah Pessin, University of Denver
“Divine Will and Related Issues in Ibn Gabirol / Avicebron”
Commentator: Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University
Aquinas and the ‘Arabs’ II
Topic: God and Love
Organizer and Chair: Richard C. Taylor, Marquette University
Speaker: Jon McGinnis, University of Missouri at St Louis
“A Principle of Charity: Divine Love in Some Medieval Muslim Thinkers and Thomas Aquinas”
Commentator: Therese-Anne Druart, The Catholic University of America
Speaker: Joseph Steineger, University of Chicago
“John of Damascus, Avicenna, and the Naturally Implanted Knowledge
of God’s Existence in Bonaventure and Aquinas”
Commentator: Timothy Noone, The Catholic University of America