If We're Right, Are They Wrong? Catholic Claims on Truth | Prof. Paul Gondreau
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🗓️ 6 September 2022
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This lecture was given on April 28, 2022 at the University of Arizona. For information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Paul Gondreau earned his doctorate in sacred theology from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, writing under the renowned Thomist scholar Rev. Jean-Pierre Torrell, O.P. He is professor of theology at Providence College in Rhode Island, where he teaches/has taught courses on marriage, Christology, the theology of Thomas Aquinas, the Church, the Eucharist, the Sacraments, and the Catholic thought of J.R.R. Tolkien. He has a published manuscript on Christ's human passions in the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas and has published numerous essays in the area of Thomistic Christology, Thomistic anthropology, a Thomistic account of human sexuality, and a Thomistic theology of disability. His is associate editor of the theological journal Nova et Vetera, and has served as a consultant to the USCCB's committee on marriage and family.
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| 0:00.0 | This talk is brought to you by the Temistic Institute. |
| 0:03.1 | For more talks like this, visit us at tamistic institute.org. |
| 0:11.0 | Before I get started, I have a brief message to deliver on behalf of the Temistic Institute. |
| 0:16.1 | This spring, the Timistic Institute launched their new study abroad program in Rome in partnership with the |
| 0:22.4 | Angelicum, the Dominican University in Rome, which is the Pontifical University of the Dominican Order. |
| 0:29.4 | In 1265, St. Thomas Aquinas himself founded the first Dominican school in Rome, the medieval |
| 0:35.5 | predecessor of the Angelicum. The TI study abroad |
| 0:39.7 | program offers students the chance to follow in St. Thomas's footsteps, both literally and metaphorically. |
| 0:46.9 | At the Angelicum, their study history, philosophy, and theology with world-class professors, |
| 0:53.3 | just steps from the Roman |
| 0:54.8 | Forum. I've been to the Angelicum, I can attest that that is truly the case, just steps |
| 1:00.1 | from the Roman Forum. On the weekends, they explore the many religious and historical sites |
| 1:06.0 | of Rome, as well as Florence, Siena, Roqueca, and Orvieto. The TI is accepting applications for spring 2023 right now. |
| 1:16.6 | The final application deadline is in mid-August of this year. |
| 1:20.6 | The program runs every spring and is open to any student currently enrolled in a university level degree program. |
| 1:28.4 | For more information about the program, please visit to mystic institute.org |
| 1:33.1 | slash for that, domestic institute.org forward slash study hyphen abroad. |
| 1:40.1 | And don't forget to pick up one of the flyers in the back of the room on the way out. |
| 1:49.0 | Okay, so anyway, you know, there you have it. So give that some thought. |
| 1:55.0 | All right. So, all right, as you all well know, we live in a religiously pluralistic society |
| 2:03.6 | that tends to breed an attitude of religious indifferenceism or religious relativism, |
| 2:09.6 | whereby all religions are regarded as more or less equal, with no one being better than another, |
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