The 2026 Aquinas Lecture “Thomas Aquinas and the Moral Vision of Christian Stoicism” given at Blackfriars, Cambridge was delivered by Rev Prof Michael Sherwin OP on Wednesday 28th January, 2026. Fr. Michael is Professor of Fundamental Moral Theology and director of the Institute of Spirituality at the Angelicum University in Rome. Fr. Michael came to the Angelicum after almost twenty years of teaching at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. He has also taught at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, California, where he received his initial formation as a Dominican and was ordained a priest in 1991. He is author of articles on the psychology of love, virtue ethics and moral development, and his monograph, By Knowledge and By Love: Charity and Knowledge in the Moral Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas has become a standard Thomistic reference, while Alasdair MacIntyre has described Fr. Michael’s published collection of essays, On Love and Virtue as “theological reflection at its best.”