Finding Hope in the Time Of COVID: C.S. Lewis and Thomas Aquinas | Prof. Michael Dauphinais

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🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This lecture was given at Saint Louis University on November 11, 2020.

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About the Speaker:

Michael Dauphinais, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair of the Theology Department at Ave Maria University in Ave Maria, Florida. Professor Dauphinais holds a B.S.E. from Duke University, an M.T.S. from Duke Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. He has co-authored Knowing the Love of Christ: An Introduction to the Theology of Thomas Aquinas and Holy People, Holy Land: A Theological Introduction to the Bible. He has co-edited multiple volumes as well as numerous articles and chapters in books dedicated to theology and exegesis in Aquinas and other topics relating to Catholic theology. Professor Dauphinais previously served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty. His favorite courses are C.S. Lewis, Triune God, and the Colloquium on Ancients and Moderns. He also enjoys riding horses and running.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Tamistic Institute.
0:03.3	For more talks like this, visit us at tamisticinstitute.org.
0:11.0	Our goal this evening is not so much to learn about Aquinas and Lewis, but to learn from them.
0:18.5	Shakespeare's character Hamlet famously said, to be or not to be, that is the question.
0:25.1	I went to share with you a secret that I only learned recently. Hamlet asked the wrong question.
0:31.8	The question is not whether to be or not to be. The most important question we may answer in our
0:37.2	lives is how to be, how to be. The most important question we may answer in our lives is how to be, how to live.
0:41.2	This lecture will be successful tonight if it enkindles in you a deeper sense of how to live.
0:49.7	And a deeper sense that the ultimate answer to that question is found in the courage in hope offered by faith in Jesus Christ.
0:57.0	Now in their 2019 book, The Stressed Years of Their Lives, Helping Your Kids Survive and Thrive During the College Years,
1:07.0	the authors report the following statistics. 30% of college students report being
1:14.3	so depressed that it was difficult to function this past year. Compared with their parents' generation,
1:22.3	college students are 50% more likely today to say they feel overwhelmed. The National Institute of Mental Health
1:29.5	reports that one half of adolescents and adults have been affected by an anxiety disorder.
1:35.3	They continue, the common person worries 55 minutes each day on average. Those with generalized
1:42.8	anxiety disorder average five hours per day.
1:46.0	A recent study on college students in psychology today found that one in five students suffer from anxiety or depression.
1:54.0	50% of college students reported that they woke up at night to answer texts, resulting in poor sleep quality
2:02.2	and increased anxiety and depression.
2:06.0	If this was a situation pre-COVID, pre-increased societal and political tensions, how are we doing now?
2:13.7	A CDC study from the summer of 2020 found that 40% of U.S. adults report struggling with mental health or substance abuse.
2:24.9	31% with anxiety or depression.
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