Is Aquinas a Common Doctor for the Theology of Grace? | Professor Joseph Wawrykow

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🗓️ 20 October 2023

⏱️ 65 minutes

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This lecture was given on September 16, 2023, at the Thomistic Circles Conference at the Dominican House of Studies For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Born and raised in Canada, Joseph Wawrykow did his doctoral work at Yale University and has taught at Notre Dame since graduation. He specializes in 13th-century Western theology, and has published on a wide range of central theological topics (Trinity; Christ; grace and predestination; sacraments; biblical interpretation) in high medieval theology. While he is best known for his work on the theology of Thomas Aquinas, his scholarly interests extend to other scholastic theologians, as well as to the varieties of medieval spiritual theology. In his research, he is attentive to issues of reception and transformation, showing the medieval scholastic theological achievement in its complex relations with the theologies of the early Fathers. Wawrykow has directed numerous doctoral dissertations, on such figures as William of Auxerre, Angela of Foligno, Duns Scotus, and, Aquinas. He has received University recognition for his teaching, both undergraduate and graduate, and has been entrusted with several leadership responsibilities by his Department, including lengthy stints as Director of Undergraduate Studies and as Director of Graduate Studies (Ph.D.) He is married to an art historian (Yale Ph.D.); their son did his undergraduate work at Yale and is currently pursuing doctoral studies in Mathematics at the University of Michigan.

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0:49.7	I'm grateful to Father Andrew and to Father Dominic and Father Ambrose for the invitation to speak of this conference
0:56.5	and to Father Dominic for suggesting this particular topic with this title, which has posed you a question.
1:04.4	Aquinas is indeed a doctor of the church, one of the 37 or so who have been so designated by the Roman Catholic Church, the Doctors
1:12.7	of the Church is an August group with a varied membership. It is comprised of Orthodox Christians
1:18.7	from throughout the centuries, including several medieval saints. The group includes four women,
1:25.2	and there are doctors not only from the West, but from the East as well.
1:29.9	These all have been formally acknowledged in due course by the Church for their learning in the faith
1:35.0	and thinking about the faith and living out of the faith.
1:38.8	It seems prudent then to read them and take seriously what they have to teach.
1:49.0	The designation as doctor would seem to be making that recommendation. This particular doctor, that is Aquinas, has been tagged variously,
1:54.0	as angelic doctor and the Doctor of Humanity, for example,
1:59.0	and of course as Common Doctor.
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