Aquinas on the Incarnation: Part I | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.

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🗓️ 21 December 2022

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Merry Christmas from the Thomistic Institute! This week, we are reposting some of our favorite talks related to Christmas and the Incarnation of our Lord. This talk was given on November 14, 2015 as part of the Thomistic Circles conference "The Wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas" in New York City. For information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. currently serves as rector of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in Rome (the “Angelicum”). Fr. White grew up in southeast Georgia in an inter-religious household. He completed his bachelor’s in religious studies from Brown University (1993) and his Master’s (1995) and Doctorate (2002) in Theology at Oxford University. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2003. He completed his licentiate in Sacred Theology (2007) at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. He professed final vows on May 17, 2007, and on May 23, 2008, was ordained a priest. His research and teaching have focused on topics related to Thomistic metaphysics, Christology and Roman Catholic-Reformed ecumenical dialogue. He was appointed an ordinary member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas in 2011. Fr. White taught at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C from 2008-2018. He was also the founder and Director of the Washington DC Thomistic Institute from 2009 until his departure for Rome in 2018. In 2015 White became a co-editor of Nova et Vetera Journal, an American Catholic Theological journal. In 2018 he was assigned to teach at the Angelicum and function as the Director of the Angelicum Thomistic Institute. In June of 2021, he was appointed rector of the Angelicum. Fr. White is also a musician and one of the founding members of the American folk and bluegrass band, The Hillbilly Thomists, for which he sings and plays the banjo, dulcimer and steel guitar. The U.S.-based group, made up of Dominican friars, has released two albums since 2017.

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1:10.1	It can be intimidating to read Aquinas, and I'm going to try to teach you how to kind of read Aquinas on your own.
1:15.6	So this is sort of as it were throwing you in the pool on the shallow end, we hope, with some float devices, and get us reading.
1:26.6	If you already know how to read Aquinas, you'll still probably hopefully enjoy it.
1:30.4	I want to explain the structure of the suma and how the thing is set up real quickly.
1:34.6	There are four parts to the Summa theologiae, what we call the prima pars, the prima secundi,
1:39.8	the secundi, secundi, and the tertia pars.
1:42.1	That's to say, very simply, the first part, the first part of
1:45.6	the second part, the second part of the second part, and the third part. The second part is divided
1:49.5	in two because he had so much to deal with with regards to human actions. So in the first part,
1:54.2	he looks at God, one and triune, creation, angels and human beings. And then the second part,
2:00.1	the first, the prima secundi, he looks at human action, the big picture,
2:04.7	and then he goes into detail on specific virtues and vices in the secundi.
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