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at Wyoming Catholic.edu. Father Thomas G. Guarino is with us today. He is professor of theology

at Seton Hall University. He's known well, the first things readers, as one of

the leaders of evangelicals and Catholics together. He has a collection of his essays out called

The Unchanging Truth of God. Critical philosophical issues for theology. That is our topic today. Welcome,

Father Guarino. Pleasure to be with you, Mark.

Thank you so much. An opening question. We're going to jump right in. Why does theology need philosophy?

Who needs all that abstract stuff? Yeah, and of course, that takes us right to the heart of the book of, you know, the relationship

between philosophy and theology, right? From the beginning, I always like to start with

St. Paul, of course, in Acts chapter 17, where he goes to the Aeropagus in Athens. And, you know,

it says the scripture tells us he met with Epicurean and Stoic philosophers, and he tells them, you have a statue to an unknown God.

And I'm here to tell you who that God is, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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