Passionate Intellects: Aquinas, Dante, and the Love of Wisdom | Prof. George Corbett

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🗓️ 7 February 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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This lecture was given on November 11, 2022, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Prof. George Corbett (University of St. Andrews) is Professor of Theology, and Director of Research at the School of Divinity. He has two principal areas of research and teaching: Theology and the Arts (with a focus on the theologian-poet Dante Alighieri) and Historical and Systematic Theology (with a focus on Aquinas’s theology and its influence, and on Catholic theology).

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0:38.4	because it matters what you think.
0:51.6	In my own intellectual life, another 13th century theologian has been equally important and significant.
1:01.3	And that is the theologian poet Dante. It was principally Dante who opened up for me
1:07.9	the intellectual and cultural riches of medieval and Catholic theology.
1:14.1	It was principally through a love of Dante that I came to love also St Thomas.
1:19.5	So I'm thus doubly grateful to Father Jonah,
1:23.9	not just for inviting me to speak at a Ti retreat here, but a retreat which takes as its theme
1:29.8	my own two great intellectual passions, the two great passionate intellects who have formed and to
1:39.4	continue to form my own, bless you, Aquinas and Dante. So I expect that most of you coming here to a
1:49.4	Ti retreat will have read or been exposed to Aquinas. And Aquinas is, for Catholics at least,
1:57.1	the patron of schools and universities and in in the church's history, has repeatedly been
2:02.5	recommended by popes in the Magisterium as the most reliable guide in philosophical and theological
2:09.9	formation. As Pope Leo the 13th, who of course formally established your Catholic University of America here with his 1889
2:21.3	encyclical Mani Nobis Gaudi on the 7th of March, the feast day, note well, of St. Thomas Aquinas.
2:29.3	As Pope Leo 13th put it, in those places where the young have devoted themselves
2:37.0	to the patronage and doctrine of St Thomas,
2:40.7	true wisdom will flourish,
2:43.9	drawn as it is from solid principles
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