Emotion, Affection & Friendship: Aquinas on the Nature of Love | Fr. Gregory Pine OP

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🗓️ 22 May 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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This talk was given January 16th, 2019 at UNC Charlotte by Fr. Gregory Pine OP (Thomistic Institute)

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Speaker Bio:

Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. serves presently as the Assistant Director for Campus Outreach with the Thomistic Institute in Washington, DC. He served previously as an associate pastor at St. Louis Bertrand Church in Louisville, KY where he also taught as an adjunct professor at Bellarmine University. Born and raised near Philadelphia, PA, he attended the Franciscan University of Steubenville, studying mathematics and humanities. Upon graduating, he entered the Order of Preachers in 2010. He was ordained a priest in 2016 and holds an STL from the Dominican House of Studies.

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0:00.0	So today I'm going to speak about emotion, affection, and friendship, specifically the nature of love.
0:06.7	In my first year at Franciscan University of Studentville, there was a lecture given by a professor from St. Louis University named Eleanor Stump.
0:14.6	You may have come across her name. She has a big old book, it's purple, called Aquinas, and then recently she published a big old book called Wandering in Darkness. But she came and she spoke very simply on Aquinas on the nature
0:25.8	of love. Now, up until that point, I got to public school in CCD and I have faithful parents
0:31.4	who were very diligent about teaching the faith, but I had what I would describe as a kind of
0:36.8	eclectic theology. I knew beautiful
0:39.7	things that holy people had said throughout the course of history, but I hadn't quite cobbled
0:45.0	together a coherent theory of what that meant. So I knew that like St. I Renéus or St. Athanasius
0:51.4	or St. Augustine had something about God becoming man so that man might become God.
0:55.0	And I thought that was cool. And I knew something about St. Thomas Aquinas or Aristotle saying something about virtue being in the mean.
1:01.7	And I thought that was cool. And, you know, you just kind of extend it down the line. I had a bunch of different discrete thoughts about the faith that I found attractive and compelling.
1:09.8	But I had no idea as to how
1:12.4	they fit together. I had no idea that theology actually has a kind of coherence, that it's
1:18.3	something that's articulated, that it's something that can be expressed kind of propositionally
1:22.6	and argumentatively. And then, here I am, just kind of bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, walking into a lecture my freshman year,
1:29.3	and she begins to explain Aquinas on the nature of love in a way that I found especially excellent.
1:35.3	It was really precise, it was really compelling, and I could feel like her trimming the fat off my brain.
1:42.3	It was just lean meat, and it was fortifying. And she explained it in
1:46.2	such a way that you could see how one thing followed from the next, how it was kind of articulated
1:52.6	or how reality hinged. And by acknowledging at its joints, what was in truth of fact the case,
1:59.8	it made it easier to diagnose what is, and then
2:03.6	by thinking well about it, to love in turn. So I think sometimes we're of the mind or perhaps of
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