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Pints With Aquinas

50: Should we call Mary the "Mother of God"?

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

Stthomasaquinas, Saintthomasaquinas, Mattfradd, Theology, Catholic, Dominican, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.86.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode we chat with Thomas about Mary, and whether or not it's appropriate to call her the Mother of God (instead of the Mother of Jesus or something).

In this episode I read from Aquinas's Shorter Summa published by Sophia Institute Press.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Pines with Aquinas Episode 50. I'm Matt Fradd.

0:05.0

If you could sit down with St Thomas Aquinas over a pint of beer and ask him any one question,

0:13.0

what would it be? In today's episode, we'll ask St Thomas the question,

0:18.0

is it right to call Mary the mother of God?

0:30.0

Hey, good to have you with us. Here at Pines with Aquinas,

0:36.0

this is the show where you and I pull up a bar stall next to the angelic doctor

0:41.0

to discuss theology and philosophy. And can you believe that it's been 50 episodes?

0:48.0

Maybe you've been listening to Pines with Aquinas from the beginning,

0:52.0

or close enough? My goodness, 50 episodes, it's really cool.

0:56.0

Good thing that Tom's Aquinas and us have breaks in between these drinking sessions

1:01.0

or else we'd be rather plastered by now, I dare say.

1:04.0

If you are new to Pines with Aquinas, I'd like to invite you to go back

1:08.0

and begin listening from the very beginning.

1:11.0

A lot of podcasts out there today depend upon events of the day,

1:17.0

or based upon events of the day, like the election, or who won the Super Bowl, blah, blah, blah.

1:23.0

But these aren't, these are perennial questions.

1:27.0

Every episode of Pines with Aquinas revolves around a question,

1:31.0

Aquinas answers in the summer and in other of his works.

1:36.0

So great to have you with us, and I'm happy to be doing this topic

1:41.0

on Mary the mother of God for our 50th episode.

1:45.0

I want to say to a big thank you to over 50 of you as of the recording of this,

1:50.0

who have begun donating to keep Pines with Aquinas going.

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