Mirabilis Rerum Connexio: The Human Person in the World | Fr. Conor McDonough, OP
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🗓️ 25 March 2024
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This lecture was given on June 20th, 2023, at the Dominican House of Studies.
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About the speaker:
Fr. Conor McDonough, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies, Dublin) is a Dominican friar from Galway. He studied science and theology at the University of Cambridge and taught theology at secondary school before joining the Dominicans in 2009. He was ordained priest in 2016 and undertook further studies in theology at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), focussing on the writings of St Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin. He is currently based in Dublin where he teaches theology to the students at the Dominican House of Studies in Dublin.
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| 0:55.7 | But this evening we're going to start by just zooming right in on one area of his teaching, |
| 1:00.8 | teaching which contains truths of which our generation I think desperately needs to be reminded. |
| 1:06.2 | We're zooming in on his teaching on the human person, what some might call his anthropology, although that's not a term he uses. |
| 1:13.6 | And just to point you at the start to the relevant sections of St. Thomas's work, where you can go and study this for yourself. |
| 1:19.9 | The key passages are chapters 56 to 90 of book 2 of the summit of caudra gentiles. |
| 1:25.3 | I should have put this in the hand out, but I can give them to you later. |
| 1:31.3 | So 56 to 90 of book two of the the caudra gentiles. I should have put this in the hand out, but I can give them to you later. So 56 to 90 of book two of the summit of Gautra gentiles. Also Thomas's commentary on Aristotle's De Anima, if you're really geeking out. |
| 1:36.3 | And then the mainstay of it all, question 75 to 93 of the prima pars, the first part of the Somatheology. That's where we'll find Thomas's |
| 1:45.8 | treatment of the human person. So that first part of the Summa Theology we'll see tomorrow |
| 1:50.0 | is about God and creation. And in his account of creation, Thomas first discusses spiritual creatures, |
| 1:57.1 | the angels, and then the creation of corporeal creatures, the earth, water, plants, |
| 2:02.3 | animals. And then he turns, as you can see in text one on your handout, to man as the bridge |
| 2:07.9 | between these two realms. We now proceed to treat of man who is composed of a spiritual and |
| 2:14.0 | corporeal substance. And note the singular there. Not composed of a spiritual substance and a corporeal substance. And note the singular there. Not composed of a spiritual |
| 2:19.4 | substance and a corporeal substance, but composed of a spiritual and corporeal substance, |
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