Aquinas on Mystical Union with God | Fr. Bernhard Blankenhorn

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🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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This lecture was given at Stanford University on November 18, 2019.

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Fr. Bernhard is professor of theology at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome and associate director of its Thomistic Institute. He did his doctoral studies at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland, under the direction of Gilles Emery. He has published The Mystery of Union with God: Dionysian Mysticism in Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas (CUA Press, 2015). He is completing a textbook on the Eucharist. His other research interests include medieval Dominican mystical theologies, the function of metaphysics in theology, the grace/nature relation, the notion of revelation, the development of doctrine and the charisms.

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0:00.0	Thank you very much, Landon.
0:03.0	Can the people in the back hear me?
0:05.0	Yes.
0:06.0	Yes.
0:07.0	Good.
0:08.0	It's a very nice space.
0:10.0	It's unusual for me.
0:11.0	I don't have familiarity with, or I'm not used to, let's say, speaking in the space with all
0:16.0	of these contraptions.
0:17.0	It's very impressive.
0:19.0	There's no multimedia coming, you know, I'm sorry, so it's
0:22.4	not my cup of tea, at least not in the theology that I do. So I'll be speaking for about an hour,
0:28.9	and then we'll have some back and forth, we'll have some question and answer, some discussion
0:32.9	time here until a few minutes after eight, and then we will migrate over into the hallway
0:40.3	over wherever we're led by the team and I hope you have your handout does everyone
0:45.6	have the sheet yes good I'll be referring to that starting about 10 minutes or so
0:53.3	you might know that since the time of
0:59.0	Plato and the ancient Greeks, the time of Plato, Aristotle, and many of their disciples,
1:04.0	human beings throughout the West have been pondering and thinking about and arguing about the nature of contemplation.
1:13.7	They've been doing it in philosophy. They've been doing it in theology as well.
1:18.4	Contemplation, so this would be the gaze toward the creator, the Jew or the Christian would say,
1:23.8	or the Platonists might say gazing toward the one with a capital O. The one who for the Platonists might say, gazing toward the one with a capital O.
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