Hello, I'm Father Gregory Pine, and I'm delighted to welcome you to this most recent episode of off-campus conversations, where we seek to follow up with a Thomistic Institute speaker so as to pursue some of the lines

of arguments and deepen some of the insights from a recent talk that would have been given

on campus or at a conference or at an intellectual retreat. So for this installment, I'm very

delighted to be joined by Professor Bruce Marshall. So Professor Marshall, thanks so much for joining

us. Thanks so much, Father Gregory. Happy to be here. All Marshall. So Professor Marshall, thanks so much for joining us.

Thanks so much, Father Gregory. Happy to be here. All right. So many of our listeners will be familiar with you and with your work from the contributions that you've made at a handful of

conferences or on-campus lectures. But for those who don't know you, would you just say a word

of introduction, who you are, where you're from, and the work that you're involved in?

Absolutely. I am the layman professor of Christian doctrine at Southern Methodist University.

I and my family are converts to Catholicism. We entered the church in 2005. So like some other Catholic

theologians who were once Lutherans and now are Catholic Catholics and Catholic theologians.

I teach in a non-Catholic setting and do my best to teach the faith and represent the church in that setting.

I have a broad range of interests, including, of course, Trinitarian theology, which is our topic

today, Christology, a special interest in the relationship of the church with the Jewish people

and Judaism, among other things. Okay. Wonderful. I was present for a conference at which you

contributed on the kind of legacy of the Yale school. So with Archbishop de Noia and yourself and Professor Michael Root. It was cool to think about this notion of a theological school, like an attentiveness to reading text, a kind of hermeneutic stance and appreciation for the church's

scriptures and tradition. So that was very formative for me. So yeah, just a quick word of thanks on

that before moving on to the subject of today, which is pursuant to a lecture that you gave

at Oxford, the title of which was medieval answers to modern questions, renewing Trinitarian

theology today.

So you gave the lecture about criticisms in the 20th and 21st century, sometimes lodged against the Western theological tradition, specifically St. Thomas Aquinas when it comes

to Trinitarian theology.

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