University of Kansas

The Thomistic Institute at the University of Kansas presents a debate over natural law theory between Prof. Steven Long of Ave Maria University and Prof. Christopher Tollefsen of the University of South Carolina.

Jayhawk Room on Level 5 of the KU Student Union

Thursday, April 28

5:00 PM

This event is free and open to the public.

About the speakers

Steven A. Long is Full/Ordinary Professor of Theology at Ave Maria University (Florida, USA). He is the author of numerous academic articles and the following books: The Teleological Grammar of the Moral Act (now in 2nd ed.); Natura Pura: On the Recovery of Nature in the Doctrine of Grace; and Analogia Entis: On the Analogy of Being, Metaphysics, and the Act of Faith. He is a co-editor with Fr. Thomas Joseph White, OP, and Professor Roger Nutt, of the book Thomism and Predestination: Principles and Disputations, for which he also wrote the introduction and the second chapter. He also co-edited with Prof. Christopher Thompson the work Reason and the Rule of Faith. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the Catholic University of America, and is an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas.

Christopher Tollefsen is a professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina. His research interests include natural law ethics, practical ethics, and the ethics of false assertion. He has twice been a visiting fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. He is the author, co-author, or editor of six books, including most recently Lying and Christian Ethics (2014), and is a frequent contributor to Public Discourse. Tollefson received his Ph.D. from Emory Univeristy in 1995.