Does Evil Disprove God? w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. & Prof. W. Matthews Grant

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🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Does evil disprove God? Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Prof. W. Matthews Grant about his latest Thomistic Institute lecture, "Does Evil Disprove God?" Does Evil Disprove God? w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. & Prof. W. Matthews Grant (Off-Campus Conversations) You can listen to the original lecture here: https://on.soundcloud.com/afxYp About the speaker: W. Matthews Grant is Professor of Philosophy at University of St. Thomas (MN), and Associate Editor of the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. His work has 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 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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0:00.0	Hello, this is Father Gregory, an assistant director for the Thomistic Institute coming to you for this most recent installment of off-campus'
0:16.9	conversations, where we follow up with the Tomistic Institute speaker, chase down some of
0:21.2	the insights from the lecture.
0:22.8	So that way we can grow in our knowledge and love of God, ultimately.
0:28.0	But, you know, practice here, soccer doctrine, saving doctrine in pursuit of a richer
0:33.9	appreciation and appropriation of the truth.
0:36.3	So for this installment, very delighted to be
0:38.5	joined by Professor Matthews Grant. Thanks so much for joining.
0:41.4	I'm glad to be here. Thanks for the invitation. So folks will, many folks will be
0:46.8	familiar with you, with your work from various lectures and publications. But for those who
0:52.0	don't know you, would you say just a word of introduction, who you are, where you're from, and what you do? Yeah, so I teach in the philosophy
0:57.7	department at University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. There are two St. Thomas's, one up in
1:03.5	Minnesota and one down in Texas. And so I'm on the northern half, even though I grew up in the south
1:09.1	in Atlanta, Georgia.
1:11.0	So, and I don't know, I work on questions in philosophy of God, philosophy of religion from a
1:23.0	a to mystic perspective.
1:25.3	But most of my work engages contemporary philosophers who may be coming
1:31.4	from all different sorts of perspectives and some of the problems and issues that they,
1:35.0	that they work on. I try to weigh in on. So.
1:40.6	Nice. When you or if you make your way back to Atlanta with some frequency, does Atlanta still feel like the South or has it begun to, I don't know, drift in the direction of indistinguishably American slash Mid-Atlantic?
1:56.0	I think it feels less and less like the South, but it still does have, you know, some
2:02.6	Southern culture.
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