Off-Campus Conversations, Ep. 006: Prof. Paul Gondreau on Truth

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🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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What is truth? If we're right, are they wrong? What are the Catholic claims on truth? Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Prof. Paul Gondreau about his latest Thomistic Institute lecture, "If We're Right, Are They Wrong? Catholic Claims on Truth." What is Truth? w/ Fr. Gregory Pine (Off-Campus Conversations) You can listen to the original lecture here: https://soundcloud.com/thomisticinstitute/if-were-right-are-they-wrong-catholic-claims-on-truth-prof-paul-gondreau For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org About the Speaker: Paul Gondreau earned his doctorate in sacred theology from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, writing under the renowned Thomist scholar Rev. Jean-Pierre Torrell, O.P. He is professor of theology at Providence College in Rhode Island, where he teaches/has taught courses on marriage, Christology, the theology of Thomas Aquinas, the Church, the Eucharist, the Sacraments, and the Catholic thought of J.R.R. Tolkien. He has a published manuscript on Christ's human passions in the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas and has published numerous essays in the area of Thomistic Christology, Thomistic anthropology, a Thomistic account of human sexuality, and a Thomistic theology of disability. He is associate editor of the theological journal Nova et Vetera, and has served as a consultant to the USCCB's committee on marriage and family.

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine, and I'm a Dominican friar of the province of St. Joseph, assigned at present at the University of Freiburg, where I am working on my doctorate, but you have probably at this point come to become
0:21.5	accustomed to these off-campus conversations. So bi-weekly installments where we're following up
0:27.7	with a particular professor who's given a lecture for the Thomistic Institute, so that way we can kind of
0:33.1	suss out some of the insights. So follow up on the principles, maybe work through some of the arguments,
0:37.8	and then see what's entailed by what it is that they proposed. So we found that it's a good way
0:41.8	to kind of go deeper from the ordinary setting of Domestic Institute lectures so that you,
0:48.3	the listener, might profit all the more from the wisdom of those who will speak here, there,
0:52.8	and everywhere. So today, we're joined by Professor
0:56.1	Paul Gondreau, coming to us from Providence College in Rhode Island. So thanks so much for
1:01.1	joining, Professor Gondro. Great to be with you, Father Gregory. Hey, cheers. So many of our
1:07.8	listeners will have listened to your lecture, which will have aired. I'm using a lot of the future perfect tense, which I didn't know existed in English until I studied other languages. But that's what happens when you time travel with, you know, like podcast recording. So, alas, many of our listeners will have listened to your lecture from yesterday, but for those of them who have not,
1:27.9	would you just say a word about yourself and then, you know, like who you are, where you're coming
1:31.9	from, the type of things that you're working on? Sure thing. My name is Paul Gondero, Professor
1:36.1	of Theology at Providence College. I've been teaching here in Rhode Island for 25 years now
1:41.4	since graduate school, which is the same graduate program where you are currently,
1:46.0	Father Gregory, I got my doctorate at University of Freiburg. Incidentally, I never understood
1:52.5	the subjective tense in English until I had to learn in French. I understand how that goes,
1:58.4	but I did my doctorate under the great Thomas scholar, Father
2:02.4	Jean-Pierre Terrell.
2:03.9	While there, I did it on Christology, on Aquinas, Theology of the Humanity of Christ,
2:10.1	more specifically on Christ's human passions.
2:13.8	And since then, I have been continuing that work.
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