Personhood & Our Ancient Faith: How Person Became Central to the Catholic Faith | Fr. Dominic Legge
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🗓️ 20 March 2024
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This lecture was given on November 4th, 2023, at the Dominican House of Studies.
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About the Speaker:
Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and an Assistant Professor in systematic theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001 and was ordained a priest in 2007. He practiced law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice before becoming a Dominican.
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| 0:59.0 | Personhood and our ancient faith, how person became central to the Catholic faith, from the Trinity to Christ to us and what it means for us today. |
| 1:12.1 | It's common today to meet university students walking around on campus. |
| 1:16.8 | I meet many of them as the director of the Thomistic Institute. |
| 1:21.8 | University students who are searching to discover their identity. |
| 1:26.9 | In fact, that's something that our contemporary culture, above all the contemporary university, |
| 1:32.2 | places a great emphasis on. |
| 1:33.9 | What is your identity? |
| 1:37.0 | What is your ethnic identity, your gender identity, your sexual orientation, your political |
| 1:42.0 | identity, your online identity, your identity with your friends, |
| 1:47.0 | your identity when you're with your family, and so on. |
| 1:51.0 | But this stress on identity often leaves students feeling anxious and stressed and lost because often enough they're not quite sure what their identity is. |
| 2:06.6 | And they're not quite sure how they're supposed to find it. |
| 2:11.6 | And often enough, in the contemporary university, the identities that they do try out or try on don't |
| 2:20.3 | provide the deep answers they're looking for. In fact, I think underlying a lot of this is often a fear |
| 2:29.3 | that one might have that perhaps I'm not really that valuable. And so I need to find my value |
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