Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine, and I'm a Dominican friar of the province of St Joseph.

I teach at the Dominican House of Studies and I work for the Tomistic Institute, and this is Pines with

Aquinas. In this episode, I'd like to talk about

whether or not we fight about the faith

and if we fight about the faith,

how we go about it.

So why pose the question? Well, as you know know there are lots of fights about the faith

raging on every side. They might be kind of crass like the ones that take place in

comboxes or they might be more subtle like the ones that take place in academic journals.

But the question is, which ones do we participate in?

Or if we participate, you know, how do we contribute?

Because there's risk on the one hand that we could

scandalize or involve people in conversations for which they're not prepared

but then there's a risk on the other hand that we fail in our responsibility to preach the gospel and to teach the

faith. So here we're going to just like look at the question together and then

lay out some principles and arguments whereby we can enter more profitably into the mystery at stake.

So here we go.

Okay, so as you know, there are plenty of fights about the faith. They rage on every side. But whether or not we enter them,

will in part depend on us. It will in part depend upon our interlocutor, and it will in part depend upon our audience.

So we can think about in terms of you, him, and then.

All right?

So I think there are some background considerations that we can pull in from the outset. The first is, you know, like, what's at stake? All right, so is this something where your interlocutor is an unbeliever and then the people who are listening in are a mix of believers and

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