Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead? How Can We Know? | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

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🗓️ 23 December 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

This lecture was given on April 4th, 2024, at United States Military Academy.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. Dominic Legge is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and Associate Professor in Systematic Theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He is an Ordinary Member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, and holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001, after having practiced constitutional law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also taught at The Catholic University of America Law School and at Providence College. He is the author of The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2017).

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
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0:13.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
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0:26.7	Thank you very much.
0:27.8	It's really a privilege to be with you all.
0:29.5	I'm just delighted to be here and to speak to you today.
0:32.9	The title of this talk,
0:34.9	Did Jesus really rise from the dead?
0:37.1	How can we know? If you Google, who is Jesus
0:43.6	Christ, you get a great number of hits, millions, many millions. How many of those are reliable sources?
0:57.0	You find some good information, you find some a little strange information, you find a lot of really crazy stuff,
1:07.0	and you may want to sort through it. How do you begin to do that?
1:12.9	If you ask Google to give you information about the resurrection of Christ,
1:20.5	on what basis are you going to be able to sort through the responses?
1:23.6	You're going to find lots of quite varied opinions out there about it.
1:28.3	Well, what I'm going to try to do is talk about how to think about a question like that
1:35.3	and how to think about it from the perspective of the Christian faith and more specifically of the Catholic faith.
1:42.3	And I think there's some very powerful ways to begin to get some traction on this question
1:48.8	that really satisfy the mind.
1:52.3	So that's my objective.
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