Is friendship with God really possible?

Philosophy Professor John Cuttaback next.

Hello and welcome again to Catholic Answers Focus,'m Cy Kelle at your host and sometimes

in apologetics we might spend much of our time explaining and defending the

controversial aspects of Christian life and can maybe not get around to explaining and defending the most beautiful

teachings of Christ in his church and those might be the very ones that people need.

Today we take a look at some of what Christianity has to say about friendship, particularly

friendship with God. It's a vast topic and one that is really essential to any explanation

of the Christian faith. To help us do that we welcome Christendom College philosophy professor, John A.

Cuttobach.

Dr. Cuttobach is a graduate of Christendom College and of Catholic University of America,

where he earned his PhD.

He's the author of True Friendship, Virtue Becomes Happiness from Epic Publishing, and he's the

founder and curator of The Bacon from Acorns website, which aims through philosophy to help people

to live more human, happier lives.

You can now find his work as well at life dash craft.org, life dash craft.org. Professor John Kettlebeck, thanks for being with us. d' I should do it a little better but I think about it a lot. That's probably the case with all of us.

Imitation of Christ being the key there and you wanted to share with us from John's Gospel some of what Christ himself has to say about

and has to kind of give us an example to us about friendship. I do I do. I'm a

philosopher and so I don't purport to be a theologian but I love as a philosopher

bringing good philosophy, ancient wisdom, natural wisdom to help us understand our faith better.

And in the area of friendship is where that particularly bears great fruit.

So Aristotle and St Thomas Aquinas then comments on Aristotle and draws them out teaches us a lot about what friendship is, the different kinds of friendship.

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