Friendship with God and Others | Professor Adam Eitel

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🗓️ 2 February 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Professor Eitel is Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Dallas. Before joining the UD faculty in 2023, he taught for eight years at Yale University, where he held appointments in the Divinity School, the Program in Medieval Studies, and the Humanities Program. His research and teaching bring topics in the history of Christian theology to bear on questions of fundamental moral concern. A specialist in medieval scholasticism, his particular research interests span topics in doctrinal and moral theology, especially in the works of Thomas Aquinas and his contemporaries.

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1:07.2	But I know that if you're like me and like most generations,
1:15.3	you have to sort through a lot of counterfeit conceptions of what it means to be a leader.
1:21.5	We have this notion that to be a leader is to be an island, right? It's a kind of unbreakable force separate from
1:34.0	others. And certainly that's one way of being a leader. But I doubt it's very effective over the long haul.
1:47.0	And most of you, all of you, I think, will find yourselves very soon if you've not
1:53.4	already caught up in projects and pursuits that are simply impossible to achieve on your own.
2:04.3	In this life, in a world like this one, for creatures like us,
2:11.3	there's nothing really worth doing,
2:14.6	certainly nothing great that can be done without the help of friends.
2:18.8	Tonight we're going to be talking about friendship.
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