Does Evil Disprove God I Professor W. Matthews Grant

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🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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W. Matthews Grant is Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy at University of St. Thomas (MN), and Associate Editor of the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. His articles have focused on Aquinas and the Philosophy of God, particularly issues having to do with the divine nature and God’s relationship to human freedom. His new book Free Will and God’s Universal Causality: The Dual Sources Account, draws resources from Aquinas and the scholastic tradition to explain how libertarian creaturely freedom can be reconciled with robust accounts of God’s providence, grace, and predestination.

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0:25.6	Well, thank you very much.
0:31.6	It is great to be here.
0:33.6	Thank you, Cadet Faser and the Tomistic Institute for inviting me.
0:38.3	And thank you, West Point for hosting me.
0:40.3	It's been great so far.
0:42.3	I've talked it at a number of neat places, but this is definitely the most distinctive institution
0:48.3	I've ever had the privilege of speaking at.
0:53.3	It's a really cool place. I don't think I need to tell any
0:56.5	of you that, but I've really struck by it. So thanks so much for having me. I am, we tried
1:06.5	out different microphones and so forth, and we found that the best was here at the
1:11.7	podium which means although I normally like to pace around a little bit I'm
1:15.6	just going to stay planted here but I think this will help you to hear me okay
1:21.1	so does evil disprove God that's the question we want to ask this evening.
1:30.3	We're going to be talking about what is sometimes called the problem of evil.
1:36.3	There are actually a variety of problems of evil, really.
1:41.3	There's an existential problem.
1:45.2	How do I deal with evil?
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