Does Tradition 'Develop' Over Time? w/ Prof. Lewis Ayres (Off-Campus Conversations)

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🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Dr. Lewis Ayres about his latest Thomistic Institute, "Does Tradition Live? Do Doctrines 'Develop'?" Does Tradition 'Develop' Over Time? w/ Prof. Lewis Ayres and Fr. Gregory Pine (Off-Campus Conversations) You can listen to the original lecture here: https://soundcloud.com/thomisticinstitute/does-tradition-live-do-doctrines-develop-prof-lewis-ayres For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Lewis Ayres is Professor of Catholic and Historical Theology at Durham University in the United Kingdom. He specializes in the study of early Christian theology, especially the history of Trinitarian theology and early Christian exegesis. He is also deeply interested in the relationship between the shape of early Christian modes of discourse and reflection and the manner in which renewals of Catholic theology during the last hundred years have attempted to engage forms of modern historical consciousness and sought to negotiate the shape of appropriate scriptural interpretation in modernity, even as they remain faithful to the practices of classical Catholic discourse and contemplation. His publications include Augustine and the Trinity (2010) and Nicaea and Its Legacy: An Approach to Trinitarian Theology (2004). He is co-editor of the Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature (2004) and of the Oxford Handbook of Catholic Theology (forthcoming). Professor Ayres has co-edited the Blackwell Challenges in Contemporary Theology series (since 1997), the Ashgate Studies in Philosophy and Theology in Late Antiquity series (since 2007), and has just co-founded with Fortress Press the Renewal: Conversations in Catholic Theology series. He serves on the editorial boards of Modern Theology, the Journal of Early Christian Studies, and Augustinian Studies. He has also served on the board of the North American Patristics Society.

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine, and welcome back to the Timistic Institute
0:13.5	podcast for this most recent episode of off-campus conversations, the point of which is to follow
0:19.8	up with the Timistic Institute speaker,
0:21.6	who will have given a lecture on campus or contributed to a Domestic Institute conference,
0:26.6	so that way we can deepen some of the insights which were introduced in the context of that lecture,
0:30.6	follow up on those thoughts, and see what we can do to continue the conversation and maybe, yeah,
0:36.6	commit more as it war to the discourse.
0:38.8	So for this episode, very delighted to be joined by Professor Lewis Ayers.
0:42.3	Thanks so much for joining.
0:43.9	Oh, thanks very much for that.
0:45.4	Yeah, my name is Louis Ayers.
0:47.3	I'm a British Catholic theologian who has been lucky enough to teach in Britain and also in Ireland and for 10 years in the US.
0:57.1	So I've been lucky enough to see quite a range of different institutions and places and problems.
1:04.8	One of the consistent problems that you see in attempting to teach theology in just about any country, I think,
1:13.1	is that modern students are very much formed by post-enlightenment suspicions of tradition
1:22.7	and suspicions of habit.
1:26.5	And one of the ways of understanding what it is that I was trying to get across about tradition
1:31.7	is to think about what it is that the post-enlightenment period has rendered so difficult.
1:40.2	And that is not the value of specific traditions,
1:45.0	but the Enlightenment made it very difficult to see tradition as a generative and necessary feature of human existence.
1:56.0	So many of the great Enlightenment thinkers see themselves as simply overturning what has gone
2:03.9	before, of freeing people from tradition, and this general atmosphere has had a huge effect on
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