Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine and I'm a Dominican friar of the province of St. Joseph and this is Pines of the Coinus.

In past episodes I've mentioned the fact that I was assigned in Switzerland at the University of Freiburg where I was working on a doctorate.

It was actually shortly after having been assigned to Switzerland that I started doing weekly, gosh what were they?

Live streams? Yeah, hour long live streams, those such a rodeo, holy smokes.

And then after about a year of those we switched to weekly videos and I guess we've been doing that now for like a year and a half, maybe two years.

Something like that, yep.

And so I no longer live in Switzerland and I thought I would update you about that, give you some further announcements.

And then maybe just talk a little bit about my last days in Switzerland because it took a sweet trip and there were some gems there you might enjoy hearing about.

Here we go.

Okay.

Alright, so the first announcement is I finished my dissertation or my thesis as they say in the French speaking faculty of the University of Freiburg.

So I wrote about Christological Exemplarity.

I explained it a couple times on the podcast but yeah, you can't explain it enough or I suppose you can't explain it enough but I haven't yet hit that point.

The idea is basically that the mysteries of the life of Christ are like the shape of salvation.

So when an artist paints a picture for instance or paints a tableau, what do you say that on a canvas, a painting.

Woo, I'm doing great over here.

When he does that, he first conceives of what he intends to realize in the medium in his mind.

And we would refer to that notion as the exemplar.

So we can talk about exemplar form of causality and then formal causality simply so called as like what makes the thing to be the thing.

So exemplar formal causality is like the form which pre-exists its realization in the medium.

Okay, so I was talking about Christ's life as the exemplar of our salvation, which pretty sweet.

The next question that people ask is how many pages, 491 is the answer.

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