Reading Sacred Scripture with St. Thomas Aquinas I Fr. Isaac Morales, O.P. and Prof. Michael Root

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🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Isaac Morales and Prof. Michael Root explore how Thomas Aquinas’ biblical commentaries on Matthew and 1 Corinthians illuminate the beatific vision, resurrection, and the role of Scripture in shaping Christian life through literal and spiritual interpretation.

This lecture was given on June 28th, 2025, at Dominican House of Studies.

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About the Speakers:

Fr. Isaac Morales, O.P. is associate professor of theology at Providence College. Before joining the Dominican Order, he received an MTS in biblical studies from the University of Notre Dame and a PhD in New Testament from Duke University. He is the author of The Bible and Baptism: The Fountain of Salvation (Baker Academic Press) and a forthcoming book on eschatology titled The Life of the World to Come: Seeing God, Resurrection, and the Christian Hope. He also regularly teaches a course on the life and writings of C. S. Lewis.

Michael Root is Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at the Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Earlier in life, he was a Lutheran, teaching at various Lutheran seminaries and serving ten years as a Research Professor at the Institute for Ecumenical Research in Strasbourg, France. He was received into the Catholic Church in 2010. His particular theological interests lie in grace and justification, eschatology (death, heaven, hell, etc.), and Protestant-Catholic relations.

Keywords: Aristotelian Science, Beatific Vision, Biblical Exegesis, Christian Formation, Figural Interpretation, Grace and Salvation, Resurrection of the Body, Sacred Scripture, Spiritual Senses of Scripture, Thomistic Theology

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0:00.0	Secular campuses are being transformed, but the students need your help.
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0:56.2	It was good. All right, great. I was told 15 minutes, 20 minutes, I'll aim for the ballpark.
1:01.7	We'll see where it lands. When I was a student brother across the street at the House of Studies,
1:06.6	some of the brothers would often jokingly say, what do we need the Bible for? All the important verses are in the Summa.
1:15.4	At least I think they were joking, mostly.
1:19.8	But of course, St. Thomas himself probably
1:21.6	would not have been amused by that joke.
1:24.3	As has been appreciated more over the past few decades, although he's better known for the
1:29.3	Summa, Thomas' primary task as a friar, excuse me, was that of the magister and sacrapagina,
1:36.5	the master of the sacred page. He lectured on the scriptures. That was his main job. And he produced
1:43.1	commentaries on the Gospels according to
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