Evil as Privation | Father James Brent, O.P.

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🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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This lecture was given on June 1st, 2023, at the 12th Annual Aquinas Philosophy Workshop at the Dominican House of Studies. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events Speaker Bio: Fr. James Brent, O.P. was born and raised in Michigan. He pursued his undergraduate and graduate studies in Philosophy, and completed his doctorate in Philosophy at Saint Louis University on the epistemic status of Christian beliefs according to Saint Thomas Aquinas. He has articles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Natural Theology, in the Oxford Handbook of Thomas Aquinas on “God’s Knowledge and Will”, and an article forthcoming on “Thomas Aquinas” in the Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology. He earned his STL from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, and was ordained a priest in the same year. He taught in the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America from 2010- 2014, and spent the year of 2014-2015 doing full time itinerant preaching on college campuses across the United States.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.2	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:13.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:19.5	To learn more and to attend these events,
0:21.7	visit us at Thomisticinstitute.org.
0:28.5	In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
0:32.2	Amen.
0:33.0	Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.
0:35.9	Blessed are thou amongst women,
0:37.4	and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary and Mother of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed are thou amongst women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
0:39.8	Holy Mary and Mother God, great for us, sin and now in the hour of life.
0:45.2	Heavenly Father, at the beginning of this Aquinas philosophy workshop, please be with us
0:49.3	and guide us and help us to understand the nature of evil so that we may avoid it and spread
0:54.1	your goodness to all
0:55.1	whom we meet. We ask us through Christ, our Lord. Amen. All right, well, welcome to the 12th annual
1:01.4	Aquinas Philosophy Workshop. We're glad to have you here. And as as usual, our first day is really
1:08.1	dedicated to graduate students and to introduction to the topic itself.
1:13.8	And our usual opener is Father James Brent, who will be beginning this morning, giving us the first lecture this morning.
1:22.9	And so just going to give a little bit of background with Father Brent.
1:26.8	He comes to us from Michigan, so he's a stranger in a strange land here in New York.
1:31.9	And he studied philosophy at St. Louis University with Eleanor Stump, having finished his PhD while he was a student brother with us in the Dominican Order.
1:43.4	He also has an STL from the Pontifical Faculty of
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