Member Profiles
Michael Torre
University of San Francisco
Education
Ph.D., Theology, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley (1983)
B.A., Religion, Williams College (1972)
AMA Presentations
(2024) “Theological Pluralism: Thomas, Thomisms, and other Traditions of Thought.”
(2023) “Some Modest Reflections on Beauty, and the Beautiful Life of Jacques Maritain.”
(2020) "Modest Reflections on Being a Thomist Today.”
(2019) “The Doctrine of John Paul II and the Life Work of Jacques Maritain.”
(2018) “Yves R. Simon: The Idea of ‘Fact’ and the Diversity of the Sciences”
Publications
Academic Articles
(2022) “Natural Knowledge of God: Reason as Faith’s Steadfast Ally,” Saint Anselm Journal 18 (1): 1-16.
(2017) “‘It is Right and Just’: Ontological Poverty and the Duty of Religion,” in Engaging the Times: TheWitness of Thomism, ed. Joshua Schulz. Catholic University of America Press.
(2014) “Maritain on Art and Faith Conspiring Towards Heaven,” in A Piercing Light: Beauty, Faith, and Human Transcendence, ed. James M. Jacobs. Catholic University of America Press.
(2013) “Contemplata aliis tradere: The Universal Call to Contemplation and Its Implications,” in Human Nature, Contemplation, and the Political Order: Essays Inspired by Jacques Maritain’s Scholasticism and Politics, ed. Peter Koritansky. Catholic University of America Press.