Sacred Study | Father James Brent, O.P.

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🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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This lecture was given on June 30th, 2023, at the Thomistic Institute Student Leadership Conference at the Dominican House of Studies. For more information, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events Speaker Bio: Fr. James Dominic Brent, O.P. was born and raised in Michigan. He pursued his undergraduate and graduate studies in Philosophy, and completed his doctorate in Philosophy at Saint Louis University on the epistemic status of Christian beliefs according to Saint Thomas Aquinas. He has articles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Natural Theology, in the Oxford Handbook of Thomas Aquinas on “God’s Knowledge and Will”, and an article forthcoming on “Thomas Aquinas” in the Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology. He earned his STL from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, and was ordained a priest in the same year. He taught in the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America from 2010- 2014, and spent the year of 2014-2015 doing full time itinerant preaching on college campuses across the United States.

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0:12.6	the opportunity to spend a semester in Rome at the Dominican Order's Pontifical University of
0:18.9	St. Thomas Aquinas. You'll study the ancient and medieval
0:22.4	intellectual tradition of Rome, live with like-minded young men and women steps from the Coliseum,
0:28.4	and participate in weekly cultural and intellectual events, regular day trips, and multi-day excursions.
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0:48.7	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast. Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual
0:54.0	tradition in the university,
0:55.6	the church, and the wider public square. The lectures on this podcast are organized by university
1:00.8	students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world. To learn more and to attend these events,
1:06.6	visit us at to mystic institute.org. So yesterday, when we were speaking about the contemplative life, we spoke about the essence
1:15.3	of the contemplative life.
1:17.2	It's threefold components and the perfection of it.
1:20.7	What's the essence of the contemplative life?
1:23.4	Those who are intent, principally on the contemplation of the truth or knowledge of the truth,
1:30.4	are living the contemplative life.
1:34.6	The person's life is to know.
1:36.9	It's given over to knowing the truth, God principally, as we'll get to today.
1:42.1	There's three components to this.
1:43.9	On the one hand,
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