Does God Exist? | Prof. Joseph Trabbic

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🗓️ 30 September 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This lecture was given at the University of Rochester on April 22, 2022. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: www.thomisticinstitute.org About the speaker: Dr. Trabbic is associate professor of philosophy at Ave Maria University, where he has taught since 2006. He earned his PhD in philosophy from Fordham University in 2008. His areas of interest include Aquinas, continental philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and political philosophy. He has published his work in various academic journals, including Religious Studies, The Heythrop Journal, and New Blackfriars

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Tamistic Institute.
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0:10.8	I've been asked to speak to you this evening about the existence of God.
0:15.3	And I'm going to do that with the help of St. Thomas Aquinas.
0:20.0	Thomas was a 13th century Christian theologian,
0:23.8	whose work also contains a significant amount of philosophy. As a theologian, Thomas took it
0:29.9	to be his business to think about God and how other things relate to God.
0:35.3	Speaking about God and the Christian religion in the first book of the
0:40.3	Sumicontra Gentiles, Thomas writes the following, and this is the number one on your handout.
0:48.7	There is a twofold mode of truth in what we profess about God. Some truths about God exceed all the power of
0:55.8	human reason. For example, the truth that God is a Trinity, but there are some truths which the natural
1:02.5	reason also is able to reach. For example, that God exists, that he is one and the like. These truths
1:10.1	about God have even been proved demonstratively by the philosophers, guided by the
1:16.7	light of natural reason.
1:20.5	There are three points in this text to which I would like to draw your attention.
1:25.5	The first is that Thomas tells us that there are some truths about God
1:29.9	that are beyond reasons grasp and some that are accessible to reason.
1:35.6	Thomas will later say that the former truths are conveyed to us by revelation.
1:41.8	Second point is that God's existence is among the truths that Thomas holds we can know by reason.
1:48.0	And the third point is that he holds that God's existence can be demonstratively proved.
1:55.0	Let me expand a bit on this third point.
1:59.0	As Thomas intends it here, a demonstration or demonstrative
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