Same God? Christian and Islamic Philosophy and Theology | Prof. Thérèse-Anne Druart

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🗓️ 6 April 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This lecture was given for our chapter at Yale University on March 4th, 2019 by Prof. Thérèse- Anne Druart (The Catholic University of America).

Thérèse- Anne Druart is ordinary professor at the School of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America, where she has been teaching since 1987. Before that she had become an associate professor at Georgetown University (197887). She obtained an M.A. in Medieval Studies (1971) and a Ph.D. in Philosophy with a dissertation on Plato (1973) at the Université Catholique de Louvain and a B.Phil. in Medieval Islamic Philosophy and Theology at Oxford (1975). In 19751976 she was a Research fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies of Harvard University. Her field is Medieval Philosophy in Islamic Lands. She has edited several books and published more than 80 articles. Every year she publishes on the web the bibliography for Medieval and PostClassical Islamic Philosophy. She has been president for the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy (20002002), President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (20092010) and since 2010 is president of SIHSPAI (Société Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences et de la Philosophie Arabe et Islamique, Paris). In 2014 she was awarded the Marianist Award.

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0:00.0	There is no doubt that all pious and faithful Christians and Muslims intend to worship the true God,
0:11.0	and therefore one and the same God.
0:16.0	Yet Muslims and Christians do not have exactly the same conception of God. And therefore, one may well
0:27.7	wonder, and philosophers, as you know, are supposed to wonder, why in the 13th century Christian theologians and philosophers, such is St. Thomas Aquinas,
0:47.4	St. Bonaventure, a Franciscan, St. Albert the Great, another Dominican, and the Blessed Jan Denskotus, another Franciscan,
1:00.0	to name only a few, turned toward philosophical text written by Muslim was in part the intention to explain and give an account of their face.
1:21.2	In fact, John Paul II's 1998 and cyclical
1:28.3	on the relationship between faith and reason,
1:33.3	Fides and Tracium,
1:36.3	introduces the section on Turmas Aquinas
1:41.3	in the following way.
1:43.3	A particular place in this long development
1:48.0	of the relation between faith and reason
1:52.0	belongs to St. Thomas, not only
1:57.2	because of what he taught, but also because of the dialogue which he undertook with the Arab and
2:11.3	Jewish thought of his time. It's interesting that John Paul II speaks of a dialogue
2:22.3	because often in the tradition the view is a bit different.
2:27.3	If you look at 15, 16th century painting,
2:32.3	you have a lot of painting
2:35.0	with Thomas Aquinas, victorious by his argument
2:40.0	over a veris, even rushed.
2:44.0	And you have Thomas Aquinas standing high and poor,
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