'How to Inherit a Kingdom' w/ Prof. Russell Hittinger | Off-Campus Conversations, Ep. 013
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🗓️ 13 January 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Dr. Russell Hittinger about his latest Thomistic Institute/IHE lecture, "How to Inherit a Kingdom: Reflections on the Situation of Catholic Political Thought." How to Inherit a Kingdom w/ Dr. Russell Hittinger (Off-Campus Conversations) You can listen to the original lecture here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm8FGGq7838 Subscribe to our channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheThomisticInstitute?sub_confirmation=1 For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the Speaker: Dr. Russell Hittinger is a leading scholar of Catholic political and social thought. From 1996-2019, Dr. Hittinger was the incumbent of the William K. Warren Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa, where he was also a Research Professor in the School of Law. He has taught at the University of Chicago, Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology, Fordham University, Princeton University, New York University, Providence College, and Charles University in Prague. In January 2020, Dr. Hittinger gave the Aquinas Lecture at Blackfriars, Oxford. Since 2001, he is a member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, to which he was elected a full member (ordinarius) in 2004, and appointed to the consilium or governing board from 2006-2018. On 8 September 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Dr. Hittinger as an ordinarius in the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, in which he finished his ten-year term in 2019. He is currently a Fellow at the Institute for Human Ecology at The Catholic University of America, where he also serves as the inaugural co-Director of the Program in Catholic Political Thought.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Father Gregory Pine, and welcome back to this most recent installment of off-campus conversations. |
| 0:16.3 | I'm very delighted today to be joined by Dr. Russell Hittinger. |
| 0:22.4 | Thanks so much for joining us on this episode, Dr. Hittinger. Yes, my pleasure. So many of those who listen to the Timistic Institute |
| 0:28.5 | podcast will be familiar with you from contributions to that podcast and to a wide variety of other |
| 0:35.6 | engagements in both popular and in academic modes. |
| 0:40.2 | For those who don't know you, would you mind just saying a word of introduction, who you are, |
| 0:44.1 | where you're from, where you have taught, and what you're currently engaged in? |
| 0:50.1 | Professor Russell Hittinger, I am supposed to be retired, but I keep on giving lectures for |
| 0:57.2 | Dominicans. |
| 0:59.8 | Currently, I teach in the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology at the Graduate |
| 1:04.6 | Theological Union, Berkeley, and I hold the position of a research professor in the School of Philosophy at CUA. |
| 1:16.3 | And I am now a co-director of the program in Catholic political thought, also at the Catholic University of America under the Institute for Human Ecology. |
| 1:30.5 | So in that capacity, you recently gave a lecture at Catholic University of America under the auspices |
| 1:37.1 | of Institute for Human Ecology, the Timistic Institute. There was also a co-sponsorship there by |
| 1:43.6 | Professor Joel Alessaya |
| 1:45.1 | with this kind of broad-based concern for originalism there at Catholic University of America. |
| 1:50.9 | And you spoke specifically on the principle of separation of church and state. That's a little bit |
| 1:55.5 | of a crass reduction, but you spoke about, you know, the two swords. And you began the lecture with the description of renative prudence and how governing in contingent things is going to always involve the types of judgments, which you subsequently line up and then, you know, to kind of take us through. |
| 2:17.4 | So for us to maybe enter into that conversation, could you say a brief word about |
| 2:21.5 | reneative prudence? It's not something that we often hear about. |
| 2:25.8 | Yeah, well, Thomas has a very interesting distinction among the various kinds of prudence. |
| 2:33.8 | You will find this in the secundus |
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