The Gift Of Fear | Prof. Adam Eitel

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🗓️ 20 February 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Dr. Adam Eitel (Yale Divinity School) holds 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 doctrinal and moral theology, especially in the works of Thomas Aquinas and his contemporaries. His first book, Thomas Aquinas and the Invention of the Preacher, examines the need for gifts of the Holy Spirit in light of the eliminable conditions of human folly; as this volume approaches the final stages of revision, he is also preparing a translation and critical introduction to Aquinas’s Contra impugnantes. His contributions to various journals include published and forthcoming essays in the Journal of Religious Ethics, Nova et Vetera, Studies in Christian Ethics, and The Thomist. Longer term aspirations include projects on the virtue of charity, the nature of sin, grace, eschatology, grief, and infant mortality.

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1:07.9	Today I'm going to talk more specifically about humility, what it is, and how it comes about, as Thomas understands it.
1:22.3	And, you know, there's no real, I don't think, real merit in understanding how Thomas thinks of
1:33.0	humility and the relationship between the fear of God, unless his understanding of those
1:38.9	ideas are rooted in scripture.
1:42.7	And I want to suggest to you this morning that that what Thomas
1:48.7	has to say about these things, humility on the one hand, fear of God and the other will
1:52.7	will help you to understand many passages in scripture that that speak to
1:59.3	this set of topics.
2:04.9	Let's begin with just a couple of quotations here.
2:07.7	What I want to show you first is the way in which Thomas' ideas are rooted not only in
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