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Course Description: Fr. Lawrence Dewan, O.P. (1932-2015), was undisputably one of the greatest Thomists in recent memory. His mastery of Aquinas’s thought, its subsequent interpretation, and its contemporary relevance was both broad and deep. As such, his works on Aquinas’s metaphysics, natural theology, epistemology, ethics, and action theory are regularly cited as among the most learned and reliable works on those topics. But they also brought him into critical conflict with other famous Thomists of the 20^th and 21^st centuries. The purpose of this course is twofold: first, to give students an appreciation of the depth and breadth of Fr. Dewan’s scholarship; and second, to use that scholarship as a way to introduce students to some of the most important debates in recent Thomism. To that end, each class will be devoted to a single article by Fr. Dewan, in which he engages some contemporary Thomistic debate