St. Thomas Aquinas and Josef Pieper on Creation | Fr. Jonah Teller, O.P.

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🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This lecture was given on March 16, 2022 at Duke University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Jonah Teller, O.P., is a friar of the Dominican Province of Saint Joseph. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Dallas in 2011, entered the Order of Preachers in 2013, and was ordained a priest in May of 2020. He holds a licentiate in sacred theology from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.

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0:44.3	My talk this evening is on the Christian doctrine of creation and some of the ramifications of what it means to be a creature.
0:53.3	And the bulk of what I'll be saying is reliant on the
0:57.4	guidance of two great teachers, St. Thomas Aquinas, a Dominican friar from the 13th century,
1:03.4	and Joseph Piper, a German philosopher from the 20th century. So the major parts of my talk
1:09.5	will focus on Aquinas' teaching on creation and Peeper's
1:14.4	reception of that teaching. We'll also have time for questions afterwards. So if a question
1:21.0	comes to you, don't raise your hand, but remember it or even write it down if you want so that we
1:25.9	can have something of a lively give and take after the talk.
1:30.3	Before launching into the main part of the talk though, we should clarify the term itself of what do I mean by creation?
1:37.3	So what I do not mean is animals, trees, rivers, flora, fauna. I don't mean creation in the sense of the natural world.
1:47.0	I also don't need creation in the sense of any kind of human making, any artistic artifice.
1:55.0	And I'm also not specifically speaking as in a sort of exegetical way about what happens in Genesis 1 through 3.
2:03.2	And we'll also be setting aside the question of creationism or evolution.
2:07.7	Those are debates that don't really have anything to bear on the topic of creation as I'll be speaking about it today.
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