Providence, RI--Eleonore Stump, Ph.D., The Robert Henle Professor of Philosophy at St. Louis University, recently delivered the annual St. Thomas Aquinas Lecture at Providence College.  Dr. Stump's lecture, entitled Aquinas on the Nature of Love, relayed Aquinas's account on love and forgiveness to an audience of 150 faculty, students, and staff.  The lecture was sponsored by the Center for Catholic and Dominican Studies at the College.

Dr. Stump is a prolific writer and lecturer.  Her many publications include Reasoned Faith: Essays in Philosophical Theology in Honor of Norman Kretzmann (Cornell University Press, 1993), Philosophy of Religion: The Big Questions (Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 1999), The Cambridge Companion to Aquinas (Cambridge University Press, 1993); and The Cambridge Companion to Augustine (Cambridge University Press, 2003).  She also wrote Aquinas (Routledge, 2005) in the series Arguments of the Philosophers.

In addition, she has presented the Wilde Lectures at Oxford and the Gifford Lectures in Scotland.  In 2004, she received the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching from Baylor University.

Stump received a Ph.D. in medieval studies and medieval philosophy from Cornell University in 1975.  She is editor-in-chief of the Yale Library of Medieval Philosophy and was section editor for the philosophy of religion for the new Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy.  She is past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and the Central Division of the American Philosophical Association.

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