Dante's Beatrice and the Beauty of the Christian Faith | Dr. George Corbett

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🗓️ 4 August 2022

⏱️ 57 minutes

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This lecture was given on April 20, 2022 at The Christian Heritage Centre at Stonyhurst as part of "Catholicism and the Arts: An Intellectual Retreat." For information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Dr. George Corbett is a Senior Lecturer in Theology and the Arts at the University of St Andrews. Previously, he held positions as Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy, Trinity College, and affiliated lecturer in Italian, University of Cambridge, where he also taught English literature and theology. He received his BA (double first), MPhil (distinction), and PhD (AHRC-funded) from the University of Cambridge. He has also studied in Pisa (as an Erasmus-Socrates exchange scholar at La Scuola Normale Superiore), Rome (Institutum Pontificium Alterioris Latinitatis), and Montella (Vivarium Novum). Dr. Corbett directs CEPHAS (a Thomistic Centre for Philosophy and Scholastic Theology), TheoArtistry (a project linking up theologians and artists), and is leading on a new collaborative MLitt in Sacred Music.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Tamistic Institute.
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0:11.6	Thanks very much, James.
0:13.3	And it's wonderful to see you all here at what I believe to be the very first
0:18.9	Tamistic Institute retreat in the UK.
0:23.2	May it be the first of very many.
0:26.1	It's interesting to me that this first to mystic institute retreat should take as its theme,
0:34.8	Catholicism and the arts.
0:37.1	Don't we associate Thomism and Aquinas with philosophy and theology?
0:43.3	The quest for truth or with ethics, the moral life.
0:48.3	And yet here we are as perhaps potentially already peeping or budding Thomas reflecting first instead on the arts,
0:56.7	on aesthetics. We're being invited to enter instead what has become known as the Via Pulcritudinis,
1:06.0	the way of beauty. Well, personally, I think this is a very wise, the virtue of prudence and prophetic,
1:14.8	a gift of the Holy Spirit approach of the organisers. And I'd like to thank here. I don't know where
1:19.2	he's gone, Rory, for inviting me to speak. Oh, there you are. I was just having dinner of Rory
1:23.7	and he said, actually, the reason he he's chosen Catholicism the arts is just purely
1:27.8	personal because he's interested in architecture so but I think it is nonetheless a very wise
1:32.9	virtue prudence and prophetic gift of the Holy Spirit working through Rory to make the first
1:38.9	to mystic institute retreat on Catholicism and the arts after all and, and tragically, of course, many Catholics
1:45.8	and non-Catholics appear to have been put off sometimes for life by an apparently narrow
1:52.3	presentation of Aquinas as a kind of ossified philosophical, theological or moral catechism,
1:59.4	as overly dry and intellectual.
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