Member Profiles
Heather Erb
Associate Professor, Our Lady Seat of Wisdom College
Education
Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Toronto
AMA Presentations
(2024) “Contemplation on the Roads: Mid-Twentieth Century Pilgrims in a Distant Land.”
(2023) “The Art of the Philosophical Life: Reflections on Adler, Maritain, and the Tradition.”
(2020) “Proficiens sapientia et gratia: Aquinas, the Great Books, and the Order of Providence.’”
(2019) “Lamps of Fire and Flame: Stages of Ascent in Aquinas’s Mystical Theology.”
(2017) “Existents Seeking the Kingdom of God: Esse and the Mystical Ascent in Maritain and Aquinas.”
Publications
Books
(2016) The Path of Spiritual Happiness. En Route Books & Media.
Academic Articles
(2021) “The Perennial Wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas and the Great Books Tradition,” Studia Gilsoniana 10 (1): 103-33..
(2018) “Towards an Aristotelian Prologue to the Spiritual Life: Ecclesial Themes in Maritain and Aquinas,” in The Things that Matter: Essays Inspired by the Later Work of Jacques Maritain, ed. Heidi Marie Giebel. Catholic University of America Press.
(2017) “Divine Power and the Spiritual Life in Aquinas,” Studia Gilsoniana 6 (4): 527-47.
(2015) “Modernism and the Growing Catholic Identity Problem: Thomistic Reflections and Solutions,” Studia Gilsoniana 4 (3): 251-83.
(2012) “The Varieties of Wisdom and The Consolation of Philosophy,” Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture (Summer): 161-89.
(2010) “Chosen for Glory: Aquinas on Vocation to the Supernatural,” The Vocation of the Catholic Philosopher from Maritain to John Paul II, ed. John Hittinger. Catholic University of America Press.
(2009) “From Rivulets to the Fountain’s Source: Image and Love in Aquinas’s Christian Anthropology,” in The Human Person and Culture of Freedom, ed. Pagan-Aguiar and Auer. Catholic University of America Press.
(2004) “Being and the Mystic: The Metaphysical Foundations of Aquinas’s Mystical Thought,” Verbum - Analecta Neolatina 6 (1): 135-59.
(2003) “Metaphysical Aspects of Aquinas’s Doctrine of the Spiritual Life,” Proceedings of the International Congress on “Christian Humanism in the Third Millennium: The Perspective of Thomas Aquinas.”
(2002) “Pati Divina: Mystical Union in Aquinas,” in Faith, Scholarship, and Culture in the 21st Century, eds. Alice Ramos and Marie George. Catholic University of America Press.