Lunch Talk with Dr. Anna Moreland "Thomas Aquinas on the Scope and Limits of Forgiveness"
Fri, Mar 28
|UT, Robert Rowling Hall 5.402
Dr. Moreland will examine Anna Karenina through the eyes of Thomas Aquinas on the theological virtue of charity.
Time & Location
Mar 28, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
UT, Robert Rowling Hall 5.402, 300 W Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Austin, TX 78705, USA
About The Event
About this talk:
Dr. Moreland will examine Anna Karenina through the eyes of Thomas Aquinas on the theological virtue of charity. Dolly, the secondary character and unacknowledged heroine of Tolstoy’s novel, is a paradigmatic example of what it means to see the world through the eyes of self-sacrificial love. Dolly is the literary exemplar of the perfection of charity. Her love exemplifies a Christian heroism, a love that is difficult if not impossible to emulate. It is a heroism that is too often domesticated in our age of therapeutic deism.
About the speaker:
Dr. Anna Bonta Moreland is the Anne Quinn Welsh Endowed Chair and Director of the University Honors Program at Villanova University. A full professor in the Department of Humanities, her academic expertise and research include medieval theology, interfaith dialogue, and comparative theology, especially between Christianity and Islam. She is the author of Known by Nature: Thomas Aquinas…
