Speak the Truth in Love | Prof. Adam Eitel

The Thomistic Institute

Christianity, Society & Culture, Catholic Intellectual Tradition, Catholic, Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality, Thomism, Catholicism

4.8 • 729 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This lecture was given on June 22nd, 2023, at Stonyhurst College.

For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events

About the Speaker:

Professor Eitel is Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Dallas. Before joining the UD faculty in 2023, he taught for eight years at Yale University, where he held appointments in the Divinity School, the Program in Medieval Studies, and the Humanities Program. His research and teaching bring topics in the history of Christian theology to bear on questions of fundamental moral concern. A specialist in medieval scholasticism, his particular research interests span topics in doctrinal and moral theology, especially in the works of Thomas Aquinas and his contemporaries.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.8	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:13.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:19.1	To learn more and to attend these events, visit us at
0:22.5	to mystic institute.org.
0:25.8	The Timistic Institute is a really incredible ministry.
0:30.4	It's like a full-service catering corporation.
0:35.6	Students get together.
0:37.9	They determine among themselves what they'd like to hear about.
0:42.1	And by the generosity of the donors,
0:45.2	the Institute, friars are sent and rag-tag professors with them
0:50.5	to discourse about what it is you want to hear about it.
0:54.3	So when I was asked to come here, I wanted to know, what do you want to talk about?
1:01.9	What do you want to hear about?
1:04.0	And I was shocked by the response.
1:07.9	I heard that you wanted to hear about the truth.
1:10.7	You know, that's exceedingly and increasingly in common these days, to want to hear the truth.
1:18.7	You know that many of your peers want to hear anything except the truth.
1:24.9	They want to hear what is useful.
1:26.9	They want to hear about what is pleasant. They want to hear what is useful. They want to hear about what is pleasant.
1:30.3	They want to hear about what will promote their interests. They want to hear, as St. Paul alludes,
1:40.3	things that will soothe, itching ears, ears that are always desirous of hearing,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Thomistic Institute, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Thomistic Institute and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.