Predestination and Human Freedom: A Catholic Approach | Prof. W. Matthews Grant

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🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Prof. Grant's handout can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/6p6nzf7e This lecture was given at the University of South Carolina on November 10, 2022. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: W. Matthews Grant is Professor and Chair in the Department of Philosophy at University of St. Thomas (MN), and Associate Editor of the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. His articles have focused on Aquinas and the Philosophy of God, particularly issues having to do with the divine nature and God’s relationship to human freedom. His new book Free Will and God’s Universal Causality: The Dual Sources Account, draws resources from Aquinas and the scholastic tradition to explain how libertarian creaturely freedom can be reconciled with robust accounts of God’s providence, grace, and predestination.

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0:50.3	Curious if I could see a show of hands if you're Catholic.
0:54.1	Now, you don't have to be Catholic to come to a talk, you know, sponsored by the Timistic Institute,
0:59.8	but I'm curious you'll see why here in a second.
1:02.2	Okay.
1:02.3	So, and now I'll show of hands if you're Catholic and you've ever heard predestination brought up or preached on in a homily.
1:15.3	So one, two, three, okay, that's above average, I think.
1:21.3	And how many of you have heard of predestination if you're Catholic or think of predestination is a Catholic thing of you have heard of predestination if you're if you're Catholic or or think of predestination
1:28.3	is is a is a Catholic thing of you okay all right a little a few more there right I'm I'm an
1:37.0	adult convert to Catholicism and and I don't think I've ever heard of predestination brought up
1:42.6	in a homily I'm maybe that I'm not sure that I have.
1:46.5	But it is a Catholic thing, as we'll see here.
1:49.2	And that's the topic for tonight, and especially the relationship between predestination and free will.
1:58.5	So why don't we just dive in here?
2:06.2	So just some points to begin with, be talking some about the relationship between predestination and salvation. And for our purposes,
2:13.8	salvation will just say is the beatific vision seeing God face to face, eternal union with God
2:19.9	that would completely satisfy every desire of the heart. Maybe there's more to it than that,
2:26.6	perhaps, but that will work for our purposes, salvation. And I want to make an assumption
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