Does The Person Survive After Death? | Prof. John O'Callaghan

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🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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This lecture was given on May 28, 2022 at the 11th Annual Aquinas Philosophy Workshop on Aquinas on the Soul. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Prof. John O'Callaghan is the Director of the Jacques Maritain Center at the University of Notre Dame as well as a permanent member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, appointed by Pope Benedict XVI in 2010. He served as the past President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. His areas of scholarly interest include Medieval Philosophy, the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, and Thomistic Metaphysics and Ethics. Prof. O'Callaghan earned his BS in Physics from St. Norbert College in 1984, an MS in Mathematics from the University of Notre Dame in 1986, and his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 1996.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Thomistic Institute.
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0:11.2	When I've talked about this topic, and I will take the position with Thomas,
0:17.0	that human beings do not survive death,
0:21.6	though they rise again.
0:24.6	What that means, and this can be kind of shocking
0:29.6	and challenging to people sometimes,
0:32.6	and it's kind of gotten sometimes a little bit emotional
0:35.6	in class, for instance, when I go through this.
0:38.3	What that means is grandma is not in heaven.
0:41.3	My parents, both of whom are dead, one of whom died when I was 21, until the resurrection is not in heaven,
0:49.3	is not in heaven until the resurrection.
0:51.3	So I just want to put that out there off the bat so that in the
0:56.1	language we now have, nobody's triggered. But I think Thomas's position that I'll talk about here
1:02.8	is very important for the life of the church, and actually is in fact the position of the church,
1:10.2	because of what it says about the resurrection. church because of what it says about the resurrection.
1:13.2	But of course what it says about the resurrection is something that it says about the incarnation,
1:18.5	the passion, and the resurrection of Christ. And so I think that's what we want to have before us
1:25.0	in terms of talking about this somewhat challenging teaching.
1:30.3	All right.
1:31.3	So regular, and I did too much here, so I'll probably chop as I go.
1:37.3	Regular attendees of the Summer Tomistic Institute will know that I have on a number of occasions
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