The Contemplative Life | Father James Brent, O.P.

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🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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The lecture was given on June 29th, 2023, at the Thomistic Institute Student Leadership Conference at the Dominican House of Studies. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming events Speaker Bio: Fr. James Dominic Brent, O.P. was born and raised in Michigan. He pursued his undergraduate and graduate studies in Philosophy, and completed his doctorate in Philosophy at Saint Louis University on the epistemic status of Christian beliefs according to Saint Thomas Aquinas. He has articles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Natural Theology, in the Oxford Handbook of Thomas Aquinas on “God’s Knowledge and Will”, and on “Thomas Aquinas” in the Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology. He earned his STL from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception. He taught in the School of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America from 2010-2014, and spent the year of 2014-2015 doing full-time itinerant preaching on college campuses across the United States. Since then, he has been an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Dominican House of Studies.

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0:00.0	Are you in college? The Tomistic Institute Study Abroad Program is now accepting applications
0:05.7	for the spring semester of 2024. This unique and exciting study abroad program offers you
0:12.6	the opportunity to spend a semester in Rome at the Dominican Order's Pontifical University of
0:18.9	St. Thomas Aquinas. You'll study the ancient and medieval
0:22.4	intellectual tradition of Rome, live with like-minded young men and women steps from the Coliseum,
0:28.4	and participate in weekly cultural and intellectual events, regular day trips, and multi-day excursions.
0:35.6	To learn more about this life-changing opportunity, go to
0:39.2	to mysticinstitute.org slash Rome. That's tomisticinstitute.org slash Rome.
0:48.7	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast. Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual
0:54.0	tradition in the university,
0:55.4	the church, and the wider public square. The lectures on this podcast are organized by university
1:00.9	students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world. To learn more and to attend these events,
1:06.7	visit us at to mystic institute.org.
1:14.6	Let's begin with a prayer. In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
1:22.3	Come Holy Spirit, fill our hearts, enkindle in us the fire of your divine love, send forth thy spirit and they shall be created, and you shall renew the face of the earth.
1:28.3	Let us pray. Oh God, who by the light of the Holy Spirit did instruct the hearts of the faithful people,
1:33.3	grant us by the same light that we always may be wise and ever rejoice in his consolation.
1:39.3	To the same Christ our Lord,
1:41.3	Mary Queen of Peace,
1:43.3	Saint Joseph, St. Thomas Aquinas, in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen.
1:52.8	It's a great joy for me to be here this morning with all of you as we begin our student leadership
1:58.2	conference, or at least the portion of it where we have talks
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