We had a very good first day. We began, perhaps unexpectedly, with Thomas Aquinas. Aaron Prelock gave a very helpful paper focusing on Aquinas's understanding of the human soul as a fivefold entity. This aspect of his teaching was taken up by the Puritans and others and is still widely accepted to some extent today. We had a decent discussion on whether we need to read Aquinas, what we can learn from him and where we need to take care. In the afternoon Benedict Bird gave an excellent lecture on Matthew Poole (1624-1679) and his writings. We then discussed the use of commentaries and one or two other things. The final paper if the day was from Lewis Allan on his hero Henry Venn, the evangelical Anglican who ministered in Huddersfield and Yelling and who was the father of John Venn, chaplian to the Clapham sect. It was good to hear someone in full command of his subject as Lewis is. The main thing we went on to discuss was emotional intelligence.
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