'So Death doth touch the Resurrection': Death and Human Nature | Sr. Elinor Gardner, O.P.

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🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This lecture was given on November 17, 2022, at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Sister Elinor Gardner is a member of the Dominican Sisters of St. Cecilia. Before arriving at University of Dallas, she taught at Aquinas College in Nashville, TN and at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Her doctoral work (Boston College) was on the ethics of Thomas Aquinas ("St Thomas Aquinas on the Death Penalty").

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1:03.0	It's really delightful that, because this is about the search for wisdom, a desire for wisdom.
1:09.0	I hear all these people seeking wisdom on one of the
1:14.5	classical topics of philosophy, one of the, one of the most philosophical and deepest human
1:20.2	questions about our own mortality. So we'll dive right into that. The title of my talk is taken from a poem by John Dunn.
1:33.1	And I'm not going to say a lot about it, but I'd actually like to begin with this poem,
1:38.4	which is also sort of a prayer by John Dunn, one of his spiritual poems.
1:45.0	By the way, I memorized this poem when I was writing my dissertation,
1:51.0	and sometimes you need to have a distraction or just something else to think about
1:56.0	when you're doing it work like that.
2:00.0	And maybe also I was drawn to the theme about death and loss
2:05.5	and writing a dissertation can be hard.
2:08.2	It's not always, I enjoy it actually,
2:11.8	but it can be difficult.
2:15.4	So I'll read the poem from which my title is taken,
2:21.9	and I'll talk a little bit about it. Him to God, my God, and my sickness by John Dunn.
2:30.5	Since I am coming to that holy room, wherewith thy choir of saints forevermore, I shall be made thy music.
2:37.0	As I come, I tune the instrument here at the door, and what I must do then think here before.
2:44.0	Whilst my physicians, by their love, are grown cosmographers, and I, their map map who lie flat on this bed that by
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