Literature, St. Thomas, and the Sacraments | Fr. Albert Trudel, O.P.

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🗓️ 3 March 2023

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This lecture was given on November 7th, 2022, at Harvard University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Trudel received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2000, and after receiving the post-doctoral License in Mediaeval Studies in 2002, he served as a Junior Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies until 2006. He has taught courses in English Literature at the University of Toronto, Providence College, and Aquinas College (Nashville, TN). His academic interests are in editing medieval Latin and vernacular texts.

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0:51.2	My principal aim is, in tonight's talk, though, is to talk about St. Thomas's sacramental theology
0:58.8	and presented in a bare nutshell. I mean, obviously, we don't have enough time to develop
1:06.2	all of the principles and then the specific things he has to say about each sacrament.
1:13.3	But then beyond that, I would like to try to use some of those bare principles
1:21.0	to look at a few literary works and see how St. Thomas's teaching helps us to understand a little bit more
1:30.2	about what's going on in the literary work and maybe see the ways in which his theology
1:37.2	helps us not simply to understand a little bit more of the context, but might even complicate things in the way that we look
1:47.0	at a particular event in a literary plot.
1:53.0	So first of all, we have to situate ourselves in terms of St. Thomas' theological teaching regarding the sacraments.
2:00.0	And so I just wanted to show you, I don't know if you can read this, the light, the chalk
2:07.6	wasn't quite as good as I thought it would be, but St. Thomas's theology of the sacraments
2:16.6	can be found in two of his principal works.
2:21.3	First is an earlier work called The Commentary on the Sentences.
2:26.6	Sentences are a work by Peter Lombard, written in the century previous to St. Thomas in the 12th century.
2:38.0	And it was used as a theological handbook from the, really a textbook, from that time until,
2:49.0	in some cases, even up until the 16th century.
2:54.2	The Sumatio Lugia is a later work of St. Thomas and is not a commentary on another work,
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