Image and Likeness: Grace as a Participation in Divine Life | Fr. Reginald Lynch, O.P.
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🗓️ 13 January 2023
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This talk was given on November 5, 2022, at the University of Oregon. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Reginald Lynch, O.P. is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology and Historical Theology at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. Born in New Hampshire, Fr. Lynch entered the Dominican Province of St. Joseph in 2007 and was ordained a priest in 2013. After ordination, he served at St. Patrick Parish in Columbus, Ohio and taught at the Pontifical College Josephinum, before going on to complete a PhD in theology at the University of Notre Dame, with a major concentration in medieval theology and minor concentrations in patristics and philosophical theology. He has written on a variety of topics in sacramental, systematic and historical theology in journals like The Thomist and Nova et Vetera. His book, The Cleansing of the Heart: The Sacraments as Instrumental Causes in the Thomistic Tradition (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2017) received the Charles Cardinal Journet Prize in 2018. Currently, he is working on a book on the reception of Aquinas’ Eucharistic theology in the early modern period.
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| 0:03.3 | For more talks like this, visit us at tamisticinstitute.org. |
| 0:11.0 | The focus of this talk is on the concept of image for understanding ourselves in light of God as Trinity. |
| 0:20.4 | So to do that, there are three main parts to this talk that I want to cover. |
| 0:24.6 | The first has to do with what we may call epistemology or knowing. |
| 0:29.6 | What does it mean to know? |
| 0:31.6 | And further, what does it mean to know God, both according to natural reason and the kind of knowledge that we have through faith. |
| 0:38.9 | They're related in some ways, but they're also very different. |
| 0:42.0 | So we'll talk first about that and also about how Aquinas synthesizes the two within the |
| 0:47.1 | context of a living theological tradition. |
| 0:50.5 | The second is about the concept of grace in relation to human anthropology. |
| 0:55.0 | So in light of who the human person is, what is grace? |
| 0:58.0 | What problems does it solve for us? What does it offer? |
| 1:01.0 | What changes does it imply for the human person? |
| 1:05.0 | And how does that relate to things like faith and also realities like hope and love as well? |
| 1:10.0 | The final section is about grace as a manner of trinitarian indifference. faith and also realities like hope and love as well. |
| 1:11.1 | The final section is about grace as a manner of Trinitarian indwelling. |
| 1:15.9 | So one of the most distinctive aspects of Aquinas' theology of grace, he's not alone in |
| 1:21.3 | the broader Catholic tradition, of course, but it's that he claims and argues that grace |
| 1:27.1 | is a mode of personal indwelling by which the |
| 1:30.8 | Trinitarian persons themselves, particularly through the invisible missions. |
| 1:35.5 | We'll talk about that later, the invisible missions of the sun and the spirit, the whole |
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