Aquinas on Friendship with God | Professor Adam Eitel

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🗓️ 9 January 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Prof. Adam Eitel (Yale Divinity School) holds appointments in the Divinity School, the Program in Medieval Studies, and the Humanities Program. His research and teaching bring topics in the history of Christian theology to bear on questions of fundamental moral concern. A specialist in medieval scholasticism, his particular research interests span doctrinal and moral theology, especially in the works of Thomas Aquinas and his contemporaries. His first book, Thomas Aquinas and the Invention of the Preacher, examines the need for gifts of the Holy Spirit in light of the eliminable conditions of human folly; as this volume approaches the final stages of revision, he is also preparing a translation and critical introduction to Aquinas’s Contra impugnantes. His contributions to various journals include published and forthcoming essays in the Journal of Religious Ethics, Nova et Vetera, Studies in Christian Ethics, and The Thomist. Longer term aspirations include projects on the virtue of charity, the nature of sin, grace, eschatology, grief, and infant mortality.

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0:28.5	I'm going to begin with recapitulation
0:30.6	that expands upon some points
0:34.1	that I very briefly glossed.
0:37.5	And before talking about some points that I very briefly glossed.
0:46.5	And before talking about friendship with God, charity, I'm going to dwell for a minute on Thomas' account of the effects of love.
0:51.1	And my hope is that doing this will bring into focus some aspects of charity, friendship with God, your friendship with God in mind, that might otherwise go missing.
1:10.1	And then I want to make very explicit in what sense charity fulfills the
1:16.6	criteria of friendship as they've been discussed.
1:20.1	And I want to conclude by saying something specific about the principal act of charity, the love of God, and then the love of oneself and
1:33.1	one's neighbor. Okay. And like this morning, my hope is, or I guess it was just this afternoon,
1:40.7	my hope is to finish up with plenty of time for some discussion, some questions.
1:46.0	Okay?
1:47.0	So I want to begin here.
1:50.0	I want to back up and I want to say a little bit more about the nature of love as Thomas understands.
1:56.0	I said earlier that Thomas gets it from, did I say he gets it from Aristotle's rhetoric?
2:04.4	He gets it from Aristotle's rhetoric that to love someone or something most basically,
2:10.5	in every instance, consists in willing some good to another.
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