Is Faith Irrational? A Lecture on Faith and Reason | Father Ambrose Little, O.P.

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🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This lecture was given on October 20th, 2023, at The University of North Florida. For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events About the speaker: Fr. Ambrose Little, O.P. is a Dominican friar of the Province of St. Joseph. He was born and raised in Connecticut and studied philosophy at The Catholic University of America. He joined the Order of Preachers in 2007, making his solemn vows in 2011 and was ordained to the priesthood in 2013. Fr. Little has a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of The Catholic University of America and received his Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Virginia, where he completed a dissertation entitled Aristotelian Change and the Scala Naturae. He primarily works on topics of interest in Aristotelian-Thomism and natural philosophy. He has previously taught at Providence College and is now a member of the faculty of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC.

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1:03.9	It's an honor to be here at the University of North Florida and to begin your Thomistic Institute chapter's first talk.
1:08.7	So thank you for welcoming me here this evening. The title of
1:12.9	my lecture is this. Is faith irrational? Now there are a number of things this title could indicate.
1:22.2	So let me just begin by considering what this, what my topic in this lecture is going to really be about.
1:29.8	And first, I think it's helpful to begin by talking about what it isn't about. So the first thing
1:36.6	is I'm not going to be this evening making an argument for the existence of God. Don't get me
1:41.9	wrong. I love arguments for the existence of God. I have helped to organize a series on the arguments for the existence of God. Don't get me wrong. I love arguments for the existence of God. I have helped to
1:45.4	organize a series on the arguments for the existence of God for our Aquinas 101 videos. If you haven't
1:51.6	heard about Aquinas 101, please tune in and watch. We have a great series of videos there on YouTube.
1:57.4	We have, and that we've put up a new video each week. So, but despite that,
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