Off-Campus Conversations, Ep. 002: Dr. George Corbett on Beauty in the Catholic Tradition

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🗓️ 11 August 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Dr. George Corbett about his latest Thomistic Institute lecture, "Music in the Catholic Tradition." The Thomistic Institute Podcast - Off-Campus Conversations with Fr. Gregory Pine, Ep. 002: Dr. George Corbett on Beauty in the Catholic Tradition You can listen to the original lecture here: https://soundcloud.com/thomisticinstitute/music-in-the-catholic-tradition-dr-george-corbett For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org About the speaker: Dr George Corbett joined the School of Divinity in 2015. Previously, he held positions as Junior Research Fellow in Philosophy, Trinity College, and affiliated lecturer in Italian, University of Cambridge, where he also taught English literature and theology. He received his BA (double first), MPhil (distinction), and PhD (AHRC-funded) from the University of Cambridge. He has also studied in Pisa (as an Erasmus-Socrates exchange scholar at La Scuola Normale Superiore), Rome (Institutum Pontificium Alterioris Latinitatis), and Montella (Vivarium Novum) Dr Corbett directs CEPHAS (a Thomistic Centre for Philosophy and Scholastic Theology), TheoArtistry (a project linking up theologians and artists), and is leading on a new collaborative MLitt in Sacred Music.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the Thomistic Institute podcast. I'm Father Gregory Pine, and I'll be
0:14.6	hosting this episode. I know that you're accustomed to hear philosophy and theology lectures,
0:18.8	which just begin from the beginning and then go to the end.
0:22.4	Here we're having these special episodes so as to follow up with a professor who has lectured
0:27.2	for the Thomistic Institute. But in the interest of deepening that theme or, yeah, just asking more
0:33.6	questions so that we can, yeah, profit from their wisdom and at the very least learn to
0:38.5	ask better questions ourselves. So in this particular episode, we're following up with Dr. George
0:43.8	Corbett. So Dr. Corbett, it's a pleasure to have you on. Pleasure to be here.
0:49.2	All right. Cheers. So many of our listeners will have listened to the lecture that you gave
0:53.8	at the intellectual
0:54.8	retreat on the way of beauty and Mozart. But for those who haven't heard the lecture, for those
1:01.1	who aren't familiar with you and your work, would you just say a word about who you are,
1:04.2	where you're from, and what you're doing? Yes, of course. So I work in the School of Divinity
1:08.5	at the University of St. Andrews.
1:11.8	We have an institute for theology, imagination, and the arts.
1:14.8	So I work there with Masters and PhD students on Theology and the Arts,
1:18.6	have a particular interest in Dante,
1:21.0	but also in the relationship between theology and music and sacred music.
1:24.6	And I also work in historical and systematic theology with a particular
1:29.2	interest on Aquinas and also on Thomism and the development of Catholic theology.
1:36.2	Yeah, we were discussing before we push record about how working in Thomism can be difficult
1:42.0	because one does not always have something original to say
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