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Jul 2024
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THE THOMISTIC INSTITUTE
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This lecture was given on May 16th, 2024, at University of Oregon.


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About the Speaker:


Jane Sloan Peters is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale, NY. Her dissertation explored Thomas Aquinas's reception of Greek patristic and Byzantine biblical interpretation for his four-volume commentary on the Gospels, the Catena Aurea. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two sons.

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