Grace and Justification: How Thomas Might Have Replied to Luther and Calvin | Prof. Erik Dempsey

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🗓️ 7 December 2022

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Prof. Dempsey's handout can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/yk87tf7e This talk was given on October 6, 2022, at the University of Florida. For more information, please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Erik Dempsey (PhD, Boston College) is the Assistant Director of University of Texas at Austin's Thomas Jefferson for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas. He completed his doctorate at Boston College in June 2007. He is interested in understanding human virtue, and the proper place of politics in a well-lived human life, the different ways in which human virtue is understood in different political situations, and the ways in which human virtue may transcend any political situation. His dissertation looks at Aristotle's treatment of prudence in the Nicomachean Ethics, and Aristotle's suggestion that virtue should be understood as an end in itself. He is adding a discussion of Thomas's discussion on Aristotle in order to prepare the dissertation as a book. He teaches many classes for the Thomas Jefferson Center, including, Jerusalem and Athens (on the ethical and political teaching of the Bible and Aristotle); Theoretical Foundations of Modern Politics; The Bible and Its Interpreters; The Question of Relativism; Ancient Philosophy and Literature; and American Political Thought.

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1:10.1	My talk today is on the issue of justification.
1:15.6	It's about the problem of justification.
1:18.2	As Colton Shepard reminded me when he extended this invitation to me,
1:24.8	has he been haranguing you all about justification for the last two years? I've only had two
1:30.7	hours of this now. I can only imagine what it's been like for you guys over the last couple
1:35.4	years. I'm sorry, I shouldn't come and pick on my host as soon as I get here. Colton's been very
1:41.2	gracious. He's been great. Anyway, but as he reminded me in his
1:46.9	invitation, John Calvin once referred to justification as the hinge on which religion turns, right?
1:56.7	It does seem to me that it's a very, not only a very central, but in some ways the central question, the central issue of the Christian faith.
2:07.3	In what I do today, I'm going to try to approach that question by addressing some of the similarities, but also and especially some of the differences between the views of
2:20.0	medieval Catholics and the views of the great reformers, Luther and Calvin. And I'm going to spotlight
2:26.0	especially Thomas Aquinas as a representative medieval Catholic and Luther and Calvin as the great
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