A new translation of a Thomas Aquinas classic work by Dr. Peter A. Kwasniewski, a Newman Fellow of The Center for the Study of Catholic Higher Education, will be published later this month. On Love and Charity: Readings from the “Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard” is the latest in a series of Aquinas translations from The Catholic University of America Press.

Kwasniewski, who is an associate professor of philosophy and theology at Wyoming Catholic College, is a co-translator of this work with Br. Thomas Bolin, O.S.B. and Joseph Bolin. He also is the editor of Wisdom’s Apprentice: Thomistic Essays in Honor of Lawrence Dewan, O.P., published last year by CUA Press.

The author said of his latest work, “The study of St. Thomas is enjoying something of a Renaissance in Catholic circles, and this translation affords an opportunity to study a different and lesser known, but still magnificent, work of the Angelic Doctor.”

He added, “In my study of the Commentary on the Sentences and other writings, I never cease to wonder at the philosophical insightfulness and Christian wisdom this great theologian has deposited into every page he wrote.”

Kwasniewski is one of two inaugural Newman Fellows selected by The Center for the Study of Catholic Higher Education, a division of The Cardinal Newman Society. The Center, launched earlier this year, is a think tank that serves as a facilitator for sharing best practices among U.S. Catholic colleges and universities.

The other Newman Fellow is Dr. Brennan Pursell, an associate professor of history at DeSales University and the author of the widely-acclaimed new biography of the Holy Father, Benedict of Bavaria: An Intimate Portrait of the Pope and His Homeland. The book is available from Circle Press.

Joseph A. Esposito, director of the Center, said, “We are delighted to draw attention to Dr. Kwasniewski’s timely translation of an important work of Thomas Aquinas. The Center is blessed to have the benefit of his scholarship as well as the fine work of Dr. Pursell.”

Both Kwasniewski and Pursell have contributed articles to Center publications this year. Kwasniewski’s latest Center article is a 101-year retrospective on Pope St. Pius X’s encyclical on modernism, Pascendi Dominic Gregis. The article will appear in the Center’s September issue of The Bulletin of Catholic Higher Education.