More Than a Body, More Than a Mind: The Human Person in the Thought of Aquinas| Fr. Petri, O.P.

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🗓️ 13 May 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This talk was held on April 4th, 2019 for the Carnegie Mellon/University of Pittsburgh TI Chapter. For more information about upcoming TI events, visit: thomisticinstitute.org/events/what-d…n-to-be-human

About the Speaker:

Father Thomas Petri, O.P. is the Vice President and Dean of the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies, where he also serves as an assistant professor of moral theology and pastoral studies. Ordained a priest in 2009, he holds a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from The Catholic University of America.

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0:00.0	The thing about St. Thomas Aquinas, living and being a priest in the 13th century, he is for the Catholic Church a sort of icon of what it means to be a faithful priest, a faithful theologian.
0:16.1	Most of you, or many of you have probably heard of his great work, the Summa Deologia, which has 3,112
0:23.0	questions of theology, all thoroughly answered by him, and not only thoroughly answered,
0:30.3	he actually understands and anticipates any objections to his answers, and he responds to those objections to his answers right there in the text.
0:41.3	So 3,112, and that is just a small portion of what the man wrote in his life.
0:47.3	At one point he was working on commentaries on every book in the New Testament,
0:52.3	at the same time he was writing commentaries on every work of Aristotle.
0:57.3	Okay.
0:58.2	They say that there were times, this is all before the printing press,
1:02.3	he would have four to five scribes working for him,
1:05.7	and he would go down the line, and each one would be working on a different work of his.
1:11.6	And he would dictate a paragraph of, say, the Sumo, or the commentary on the Nicomachian ethics, and then go to the
1:16.7	next scribe and dictate a paragraph of the commentary on the letter to the Hebrews. And on down
1:22.0	the way, his mind worked so well that by the time he got back to the first scribe, who in the
1:26.9	meantime had enough time to write out this paragraph, he got back to the first scribe who in the meantime had enough time to
1:28.3	write out this paragraph he knew exactly what the next paragraph he wanted to be in the text was
1:33.2	so he often was thinking three or four we think of channels or tracks he was he was not a one-track
1:39.1	mind he was like a four-track mind and this is how he why he was so productive. It was, we believe, a charismatic
1:45.0	grace. He was what we might say, what I like to call, an observational theologian. He observed
1:53.0	how we work, how we live as human beings, and knowing what he did not only from revelation,
2:00.2	from faith, he was also well-schooled in philosophy
2:03.5	and reason, which in the 13th century still meant something. So he knew well the philosophy of Plato,
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