The Life of the World to Come | Fr. Isaac Morales, O.P.

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🗓️ 14 April 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This lecture was given on February 22, 2022 at the University of Dallas. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Isaac Morales, O.P. entered the Dominican novitiate for the Province of St. Joseph in the summer of 2012. Before joining the order, Fr. Isaac received a BSE in civil engineering from Duke University, an MTS with a concentration in biblical studies from the University of Notre Dame, and a PhD in New Testament from Duke University. After completing his PhD, he taught in the department of theology at Marquette University for four years. During the academic year 2011-12, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the Ludwig Maximilians Universität in Munich. Fr. was ordained to the priesthood in May of 2018.

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0:08.0	Of course, in the Nicene Creed, we have this expression.
0:16.0	I look forward to the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.
0:20.0	This prayer also, though, talks about the other aspect of the dead and the life of the world to come.
0:20.9	This prayer also, though, talks about the other aspect of the Christian hope, and that is the
0:25.1	hope of seeing God face to face.
0:27.9	This is also attested to in scripture all the way back in the Old Testament.
0:31.8	When Moses asks God to see his face, we see it in many of the Psalms.
0:36.7	And then of course, the New Testament speaks of this hope as well.
0:40.3	It's easy to see that these two aspects of the Christian hope exist. What's less obvious is how the two
0:47.2	fit together. And one of the things that makes it difficult to see how they fit together is what
0:51.9	my dear brother, St. Thomas Aquinas, had to say about the beatific vision.
0:56.2	Because in the Summa Theologia and in other places, he says that the vision of God is the
1:01.3	ultimate end for which human beings were created. And that vision is an intellectual vision.
1:06.9	It's something that we see with our minds, not with our physical eyes. And that vision
1:10.8	will satisfy all of our longings. And we don't need our bodies for it. So the question is then,
1:17.8	why do we need our bodies? How do these two aspects of the Christian hope fit together? And so that's
1:24.5	the topic that I'd like to explore this evening. And just to anticipate where we're going,
1:30.5	my suggestion is that we will need the resurrection of the body because the proper response to the
1:37.2	vision of God is worship. Praise, right? And if we're going to worship God in a fully human fashion
1:43.6	that is corporeally in bodies
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