AngellicumSTOQ in Rome

"The unity of truth is a fundamental premise of human reasoning"...

"...This unity of truth, natural and revealed, is embodied in a living and personal way in Christ, as the Apostle reminds us: "Truth is in Jesus" (cf Eph 4:21; Col 1:15-20)". - Fides et ratio, n.34

This principle of the unity of truth is our guide and stimulus in our quest for a closer dialogue between science, philosophy and religion, and in our search for an image of a unified contemporary man. AngelicumSTOQ considers, in a special way,  the mindset and the virtuous testimony of   St. Albert the Great and St. Thomas Aquinas as paradigms that may be effectively applied in dealing with current questions.  

             
 (St. Thomas and St. Albert the Great;  Convent of Albertinum in Fribourg Switzerland)

St. Albert the Great: "There are some people who attribute all these things to divine order and say that we must not consider in them any other cause but the will of God. This in part we can agree to. Yet we do not say that he does this because of a naural cause of which he is the first mover, since he is the cause of all movement; for we are not seeking a reason or explanation of the divine will but rather investigating natural causes which are as instruments through which God's will is manifested. It is not sufficient to know these things in a general sort of way; what we are looking for is the cause of each individual thing according to the nature belonging to it. This is the best and most perfect kind of knowledge." (De causis proprietatum elementorum, lib. I, tr. I, cap.9)

St. Thomas Aquinas: " That truth that the human reason is naturally endowed to know cannot be opposed to the truth of the Christian faith." (Summa contra gentiles, I,7)

What We Do

AngelicumSTOQ is a project that is meant to educate future professionals and leaders of the Church on the openess of one's spirit to universal knowledge and on the inter-cultural character of man's life. To achieve this objective our program offers courses, seminars, conferences and research activities. AngelicumSTOQ is nitched and nurtured within a calm, academic but family-like University campus setting right in the heart of Rome. It is sustained by the commitment of outstanding professors and lecturers from different parts of the world and enriched by the Church, by the special tradition of St. Albert the Great and St. Thomas, and by contemporary thinkers. 

What We Did

Saturday Course

The LIFE of MAN is a series of lectures that highlights the theological, scientific and the philosophical aspects of man.

"The LIFE of MAN" First Semester School Year 2007-2008 SATURDAYS 9.30-11-15 a.m.

CONFERENCE

"The demarcation Between Science & Humanities" by Prof. Stanley Jaki, OSB, physicist & 1987 Templeton Prize Winner, a leading thinker in areas at the boundary of science & theology.- March 13, 2008

"Wisdom on the Way of Science: Christian Theology & the Universe of Sciences According to St. Albert the Great" -

Prof. Ludger Honnefelder

Director of the Institute of Bioethics in Bonn University and Director of Albertus-Magnus-Institut in Bonn

January 18, Friday

5.30 p.m. to 7.15 p.m.

"Aula 2" PUST-Angelicum in Rome

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"Science, Religion and Philosophy: Harmony in Complexity" by Prof. Giuseppe Del Re

Chemical Theorist and author of the book "The Cosmic Dance (2006)"

December 6, 2007 Aula 11

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"Evolution & Religion"    Prof. Werner Arber (Basel) & Prof. Evandro Agazzi (Genova)     May 7, 2007; 8.30-12.20

What's New? 

From the Angelicum-Stoq, we wish you all a meaningful  8th Sunday of Ordinary time!

LA MORTE UMANA

(HUMAN DEATH) - A series of lectures to be presented by 11 different professors on 11 Saturdays of the Second Semester 2008. When attended all together, the series will serve as a course for the Licentiate students of the Faculties of Philosophy & Theology. The lectures will all be in Italian. 

10th Saturday-Conference -10°conferenza  - 24maggio Sabato

"Una sociologia della morte umana" Prof. Giovanni Dessì  9:30- 11.15 Aula-2 Angelicum

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CONFERENCE

Other Forthcoming Conferences:

"Mgr. Georges Lemaitre, the Priest Who Invented the Big Bang"

Prof. Dominique Lambert (Belgium)  April 22, 2008 Tuesday 17.30-19.00

Mgr. Georges Lemaitre (1894-1966) was a Belgian priest & prof. at Louvain Univ. Physicist & mathematician, friend of Einstein, he explained in 1927 the observations of Hubble concerning the recession of the nebulae. In 1931 he introduced a description of the physical beginning of the universe in the framework of his Primeval atom hypothesis which opened the way towards our Big Bang cosmology. Mgr. Lemaitre became President of the Ponticial Academy of Sciences in 1960. In the sixties, Pope Paul VI asked him to collaborate with Fr. H.D. Reidmatten,OP of the Angelicum University, to a mission concerning "Demography & Population".

Starting from unedited documents of Lemaitre's personal archives, the talk will analyse the kind of relations Mons. Lemaitre established between his science & his sacerdotal & spiritual life, between his description of the natural beginning of the Universe and the theology of creation.

SECRETARIAT 

ANGELICUM-STOQ

We would like to announce that starting the first of October, ANGELICUM-STOQ will finally have a new secretariat office located at the Largo Angelicum 1a - Uffici dei decanati. The Secretariat, which  is just beside the Angelicum Press Office, will be regularly served by Prof. Albert Bagood, OP, Prof. Alessandro Salucci, OP and Prof. Gulia Lombardi (Angelicum-Stoq Secretary).  

For the meantime, you can address your inquiries via E-mail

angelicumstoq@yahoo.com