Counsel & The Limits Of Reason | Prof. Adam Eitel

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🗓️ 2 August 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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This lecture was given on July 8, 2022 at the 4th Annual Student Leadership Conference on Faith, Reason, and the Mind’s Ascent to God. The handout for this lecture can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/bdct2y69. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Prof. Adam Eitel is an Assistant Professor of Ethics at Yale Divinity School. Dr. Eitel focuses his research and teaching on the history of Christian moral thought, contemporary social ethics and criticism, and modern religious thought. Dr. Eitel has roughly a dozen books, chapters, edited volumes, and articles published or in progress. These include an ethical analysis of drone strikes and a theological account of domination. His current book project explores the role of love in the moral theology of Thomas Aquinas. A 2004 Baylor University graduate and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Fribourg, Dr. Eitel received his M.Div. and Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary, completing the latter in 2015.

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0:10.8	All right, so this morning we heard in the mass it read,
0:18.2	What I say to you in darkness speak in the light.
0:25.9	What you here whispered proclaim on the rooftops.
0:33.2	And yesterday I tried to suggest to you that what we're here doing now and this week and in the time that remains has something to do with this exhortation, with this proclamation of things heard in the secret of the heart in public on the rooftops.
1:01.0	And I suggested yesterday that this takes quite a lot of thinking, how to do that that how to participate in this extension of
1:15.5	the work of St. Dominic and the friar's preachers how to be a voice of uplift and
1:25.6	encouragement to your fellow students and professors, your fellow citizens and family members and friends.
1:37.1	This deliberation is deliberation about a particular end.
1:45.0	It's the end of the is deliberation about a particular end.
1:51.6	It's a, the end in sight is a work of mercy. Now you may not think of it this way,
1:53.2	but traditionally we understand proclamation
1:57.1	as a work of mercy.
1:58.8	A work of mercy is most vividly in our minds, something like clothing and housing the homeless, feeding hungry.
2:15.6	But there are what, there is another set of acts of mercy, spiritual acts of
2:25.7	mercy, acts of mercy that seek to fill up what's lacking, not in with respect to the body,
2:33.7	but with respect to the soul.
2:36.4	When you look out at the world, what the what the Lord, through the gift of wisdom is urging
2:44.8	you to see is how lost and how lonely and how confused are so many of your peers.
3:05.6	it's by mercy that we are moved to proclaim what the Lord, as the gospel says, whispers to us,
3:15.3	to speak in the light what we hear in the darkness, the darkness of faith.
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