The Aquinas Center of Theology at Emory UniversityLogo Design Contest

these look too much like clip art. should be more refined and elegant. perhaps pen and ink. more modern and creative.

too simple, still too much like clip art. we do not need a cross in the LOGO. needs to be more refined - to reflect our affiliation with a world class university.

see these that are more creative:

http://www.stthom.edu/Public/index.asp?page_ID=6093&Page_Not_Found=1&Aquifer_Source_URL=/cts
https://www.aquinas.vic.edu.au/

Deadschool - better. much more in the right direction. still needs more creativity. Spiritz is ok but still too religious focused.

FYI- Background: Thomas Aquinas (c. 1225–1274)

An indefatigable student, teacher, and writer, St. Thomas Aquinas was the greatest Christian theologian of the Middle Ages.

One of the distinctive features of universities in Aquinas’s day was the so-called scholastic method, which was embodied in the disputatio.

The disputatio was a public debate among scholars on a particular topic or question and took place according to a strict procedural format. First, a teacher posed a previously announced question to an advanced student. This student then took a position with respect to the topic in question. Other teachers and students subsequently countered the advanced student’s responses with objections, which the advanced student then attempted to rebut. On a day soon afterward, the teacher summarized the various arguments for and against the debated question and rendered his own decision in the determinatio.

This culture of spirited public debate led to the development of refined techniques of argumentation and rhetoric. Trained in this arena of intellectual jousting, Aquinas proved himself to be one of its foremost practitioners.