Aquinas on Faith and Reason w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. & Prof. Mats Wahlberg

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🗓️ 16 November 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Prof. Mats Wahlberg about his latest Thomistic Institute lecture, "How Is Revealed Knowledge Justified? Aquinas on Faith and Reason." Aquinas on Faith and Reason w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. & Prof. Mats Wahlberg (Off-Campus Conversations) You can listen to the original lecture here: https://soundcloud.com/thomisticinstitute/ About the speaker: Mats Wahlberg is associate professor of systematic theology at Umeå University, Sweden. He has written two books: Reshaping Natural Theology (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and Revelation as Testimony (Eerdmans, 2014), as well as many scholarly articles. His research about the problem of evil has received funding from the John Templeton Foundation. In 2021, he was the visiting Aquinas Chair at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (the Angelicum) in Rome.

This project/publication was made possible through the support of Grant 63017 from the John Templeton Foundation. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation.

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Father Gregory Pine, an assistant director at the Thomistic Institute, and I'm delighted to welcome you back for this most recent installment of off-campus conversations, where we follow up with a Thomistic Institute speaker,
0:22.3	so that way we can, yeah, chase down some insights that they will have given by means of a lecture
0:27.8	or a retreat conference or whatever else.
0:30.5	So for this installment, I'm very delighted to be joined by Professor Mats Wahlberg.
0:35.0	Thanks for joining.
0:37.2	Yeah, thanks for having me. Yeah. So looking
0:41.9	forward to chatting, pursuant to your lecture, but perhaps before doing so, some of our listeners
0:47.8	will know you from the aforementioned lecture, but for those who don't, could you say a word of
0:51.8	introduction? Yeah, I work as associate professor at Umeo University, which is in the north part of Sweden,
0:59.9	and it's a secular state university.
1:03.3	I've also taught for a while at the Angelicum, where I was the Aquinas chair for visiting
1:10.3	scholars in 2021.
1:12.6	And I have two doctorates, one from Umeo and one from South Africa, Stellenbosch University.
1:19.6	So I have been doing research about a number of different things about natural theology, the doctrine of revelation. I also recently studied the
1:30.8	problem of evil, and I'm working on that topic right now. Okay, wonderful. And those are,
1:40.4	yeah, interestingly, those are all themes that a lot of students at Timistic Institute chapters
1:44.8	are interested in learning more about. And so we have quite a few different professors who
1:50.0	lecture on Problem of Evil or the Doctrine of Revelation or the Possibility of Revelation,
1:54.3	things of such like. So, yeah, I'd be interested to read more. I wrote a little paper
2:00.1	for Father Thomas Joseph, maybe whatever, 10 years ago on the problem
2:04.6	of evil using the work of Herbert McCabe, which is one kind of or a particular kind of
2:09.7	approach to the problem.
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