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🗓️ 15 July 2025
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Dr. Nathaniel Peters and Prof. Jane Peters explore the vocation of marriage as a transformative friendship, highlighting how the goods of marriage—offspring, fidelity, and sacrament—are elevated by grace to foster virtue, mutual delight, and a living witness to Christ’s love.
This lecture was given on January 24th, 2025, at Dominican House of Studies.
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About the Speakers:
Dr. Nathaniel Peters is the Director of the Morningside Institute. He received his B.A. from Swarthmore College in linguistics, with a focus on French and Latin, his M.T.S. from the University of Notre Dame, and his Ph.D. in theology from Boston College. He has published articles and reviews on many topics in historical theology and ethics and serves as a contributing editor at Public Discourse.
Prof. Jane Peters is an Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale, NY. Her dissertation explored Thomas Aquinas's reception of Greek patristic and Byzantine biblical interpretation for his four-volume commentary on the Gospels, the Catena Aurea. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two sons.
Keywords: Aristotelianism, Catholic Theology, Complementarity of Man and Woman, Concupiscence, Culture, Familiaris Consortio, Fatherhood, Marriage as Sacrament, Motherhood, Virtue Ethics
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0:25.4 | Well, the vocation of parenthood. |
0:27.0 | So it's my pleasure to introduce the Peters, Dr. Nathaniel and Professor Jane Peters. |
0:35.2 | Professor Jane Sloan Peters is assistant professor of religious studies at the |
0:39.4 | College of Mount St. Vincent in Riverdale, New York. Her dissertation explored Thomas Aquinas' |
0:45.7 | reception of the Greek, patristic, and Byzantine biblical interpretation for his four-volume |
0:51.4 | commentary in the Gospels, the Catena Aurea. Now, Professor Peters has a number of T.I. talks that I thought you'd be interested to hear, |
1:00.0 | if you haven't already. What's on option for your chapter? |
1:04.0 | Chat G.P.T. And the foolishness of speech, why human communication matters. |
1:13.9 | And finding truth and friendship during the college years, Jacques and Reyesa Mariton's journey to Thomas Aquinas, a married couple in their journey in college, finding Aquinas. |
1:26.4 | And then cultivating a Benedictine life of prayer and work in the world with the health of |
1:31.5 | Thomas Aquinas. |
1:32.3 | Just a little sampling there. |
1:34.7 | And Dr. Nathaniel Peters is director of the Morningside Institute, which is located in Columbia |
1:40.4 | University. |
1:41.3 | That's right there in Manhattan. |
1:48.3 | He received his BA from Swarthmore College in linguistics with a focus in French and Latin, and his master's in theological studies from |
1:54.1 | Notre Dame, and a PhD from Boston College. He has published articles and reviews on many |
2:00.2 | topics in historical theology and |
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