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Pints With Aquinas

Aquinas' MANY Arguments For God's Existence (Dr. Joseph Trabbic) | Ep. 301

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

Education, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.87K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2021

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Here are the PDFs that Dr. Trabbic and I discussed today: https://www.patreon.com/posts/57265103 Dr Joseph Trabbic earned his PhD in philosophy from Fordham University in New York in 2008. He is currently associate professor of philosophy and chair of the philosophy department at Ave Maria University in Ave Maria Florida, where he has taught since 2006. His interests include St. Thomas Aquinas, Martin Heidegger, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion. He has published in various academic journals, among which Religious Studies, the International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly, and the Heythrop Journal. He is a contributor to Thomistica.net and has a regular column with Catholic Word Report entitled "St. Thomas for Today." He and his wife Rose are the proud parents of five children. Sign up for my free course on St. Augustine's "Confessions"! SPONSORS Hallow: http://hallow.app/mattfradd STRIVE: https://www.strive21.com/ Ethos Logos: https://www.elinvestments.net/pints GIVING Patreon or Directly: https://pintswithaquinas.com/support/ This show (and all the plans we have in store) wouldn't be possible without you. I can't thank those of you who support me enough. Seriously! Thanks for essentially being a co-producer co-producer of the show. LINKS Merch: https://teespring.com/stores/matt-fradd FREE 21 Day Detox From Porn Course: https://www.strive21.com/ SOCIAL Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mattfradd Twitter: https://twitter.com/mattfradd Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mattfradd Gab: https://gab.com/mattfradd Rumble: https://rumble.com/c/pintswithaquinas MY BOOKS Get my NEW book "How To Be Happy: Saint Thomas' Secret To A Good Life," out now! Does God Exist: https://www.amazon.com/Does-God-Exist-Socratic-Dialogue-ebook/dp/B081ZGYJW3/ref=sr_1_9?dchild=1&keywords=fradd&qid=1586377974&sr=8-9 Marian Consecration With Aquinas: https://www.amazon.com/Marian-Consecration-Aquinas-Growing-Closer-ebook/dp/B083XRQMTF/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=fradd&qid=1586379026&sr=8-4 The Porn Myth: https://www.ignatius.com/The-Porn-Myth-P1985.aspx CONTACT Book me to speak: https://www.mattfradd.com/speakerrequestform Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Dr. Joseph Trabeck, lovely to have you on the show. Thank you very much, Matt. Good to be here.

0:04.3

Yeah, yeah, this is really exciting. Really excited to look into Aquinas' arguments,

0:09.0

to God's existence, and like a good academic, you've printed off something for me that even has footnotes.

0:14.0

It's amazing. Yeah, you have the Latin on mine. I didn't include it on mine. Did you print this out for me? Yeah. And it has footnotes in Latin. And I had,

0:21.3

and I had meant to make several, but, oh, things go. This is amazing. Yeah, so you have the Latin

0:27.0

and I'm going to have that. Well, I can't read Latin, so if you want to swap, just let me know.

0:31.6

Yeah, it's funny, you sent me that article from a, was it a French Dominican? French Supetian, yeah. Oh, okay. Jules Besne.

0:38.2

Yeah.

0:38.5

Okay.

0:38.9

So I printed it off this morning, got excited to read it and realized half of it was in Latin and went, I'm not smart at all.

0:44.1

That's not true.

0:44.9

But anyway, it's so lovely to have you on the show.

0:46.9

For those who are watching and are not sure who Dr. Joseph Trabeck is, tell us a bit about yourself well I teach at Ave Marie University I teach philosophy there I've

0:54.9

been teaching at Ave since 2006 and right now I'm I'm the chair of the department

1:02.6

it's we switch off on it it's basically administration is something I'm not good at

1:09.1

right I can't wait till I'm not chair anymore.

1:27.9

But so my main interests are St. Thomas, medieval philosophy, Heidegger, in systematic areas, metaphysics, philosophy, religion.

1:31.0

I love it, your phone just bing.

1:32.3

Yeah, is that your wife?

1:34.7

Wondering why you have... No, no.

1:36.8

Wondering why I haven't shaved.

1:38.1

That's what I was going to say, because you brought that up earlier.

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