If Your Head Causes You to Sin | Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.

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🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Gregory Pine discusses the pitfalls of undisciplined thinking, advocating for a return to structured thought guided by the Catholic intellectual tradition, particularly the teachings of St. Thomas Aquinas. He highlights how Aquinas offers a coherent and organized approach to reality that integrates faith and reason, helping Catholics make sense of their experiences and choices.

This lecture was given on October 3rd, 2024, at University of Michigan.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies) is from Pennsylvania and graduated from Franciscan University of Steubenville. He previously served as the Assistant Director of Campus Outreach for the Thomistic Institute in Washington, DC, and associate pastor of St. Louis Bertrand Catholic Church in Louisville, KY where he also taught at Bellarmine University. He currently serves as an adjunct professor of dogmatic theology at the Dominican House of Studies and an Assistant Director of the Thomistic Institute. He is a contributor on the Pints with Aquinas show and a co-host of the Catholic Classics podcast.

Fr. Gregory is the author of Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly (Our Sunday Visitor, 2022) and co-author with Matt Fradd of Marian Consecration With Aquinas: A Nine Day Path for Growing Closer to the Mother of God (TAN Books, 2020).

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.8	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:13.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:19.1	To learn more and to attend these events, visit us at to mystic institute.org.
0:25.0	The title for tonight's talk is if your head causes you to sin.
0:28.8	So a word from G.K. Chesterton.
0:33.0	A man cannot think himself out of mental evil,
0:37.2	for it is actually the organ of thought that has become diseased, ungovernable, and as it were, independent.
0:45.5	He can only be saved by will or faith.
0:50.0	The moment his mere reason moves, it moves in the old circular rut.
0:55.0	He will go round and round his logical circle.
0:59.0	And so he writes,
1:00.0	If thy head offend thee, cut it off.
1:05.0	For it is better not merely to enter the kingdom of heaven as a child,
1:09.0	but to enter it as an imbecile rather than with your whole intellect to be cast into hell.
1:14.6	Whoa.
1:18.6	So here's the proposal for you. We'll live in an age of independent thinking, but independent thinking often amounts to eclectic thinking or
1:29.3	undisciplined thinking or selfish thinking or silly thinking. You can fill in the
1:34.9	word is you see fit. And so many trot out various opinions adjudicating amongst them on
1:40.8	the basis of whimsy or advocacy or whatever else. But it's not clear, or it's not
1:47.2	clear to me, what this has yielded. So my suggestion to you is that we need a master, right? We need
1:53.5	to put ourselves into a kind of mental discipline. A master specifically who has stood the test of time,
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