Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin: Aquinas on the Limits of Charity - Prof. Michael Krom
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Prof. Michael Krom discusses Aquinas’s account of charity and the balance between loving the sinner and hating the sin.
Prof. Michael Krom presents Aquinas’s account of charity and asks what it really means to love the sinner without affirming the sin, showing how true Christian love can require both mercy and moral clarity. This lecture was given on August 18th, 2025, at Universidad Panamericana. To make a gift this June, visit https://truth.thomisticinstitute.org/pod . About the Speaker: Michael Krom started reading Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae shortly after his conversion at the end of college. Upon learning about Flannery O’Connor’s “hillbilly Thomist” habit of reading Aquinas every night, he started studying two articles a day and completed the Summa while in graduate school at Emory University. As a professor at Saint Vincent College, he saw the urgent need for collegians and seminarians to receive a solid foundation in Aquinas’s philosophical theology. In 2020, he published Justice and Charity: An Introduction to Aquinas’s Moral, Economic, and Political Thought (Baker Academic Press), and teaches a Thomistic philosophy course each fall. In addition to continuing work on the moral, economic, and political topics covered in the book, his current research is on the influence of…
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Guest: Prof. Michael Krom
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Organizations: Universidad Panamericana, Saint Vincent College, Baker Academic Press
Books & works: Summa Theologiae, Justice and Charity: An Introduction to Aquinas’s Moral, Economic, and Political Thought, Aquinas Among the Benedictines
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