The Raising of Lazarus and the Immortality of the Soul | Fr. John Corbett, O.P.

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🗓️ 2 July 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This lecture was given on February 28, 2022 at Cedarbrake Renewal Center as part of the Second Annual Texas Student Retreat: "The Meaning of Death and Eternal Life." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Corbett grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and came to know the Dominicans through family members in the Order, through St. Patrick’s Parish, and through attending Providence College, from which he graduated in 1973 with a B.A. in Political Science. Fr. Corbett joined the Dominicans in the summer of 1974 and was ordained a priest on May 12th, 1980. He completed his Licentiate in Sacred Theology in 1981 and began to teach moral theology as well as the Development of Western Civilization at Providence College. Three years later he began his doctoral studies under Servais Pinckaers, O.P., at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and was awarded his Ph.D. after completing his dissertation on the theology of virtue in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Fr. Corbett was appointed to the Faculty of the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio, in 1991, and spent the next seven years teaching various courses in moral theology, as well as offering retreats, spiritual direction, and personal formation for seminarians.

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0:11.5	Today, my topic is Lazarus and the immortality of the soul.
0:17.5	Now, this is an odd kind of juxtaposition because, you know, when we're talking about Lazarus,
0:23.8	we're talking about the scriptures, and we're talking about a doctrine that really essentially
0:27.8	belongs to faith, the resurrection from the dead, you know, the rising of Jesus and our rising
0:34.8	with Jesus to new life. However long, deep high or low, you go in philosophy, you'll never find a verification of that.
0:43.7	It remains a matter of faith.
0:46.7	Whereas the immortality of the soul is something that does lie within the purview of philosophy.
0:53.4	Is there a soul?
0:55.3	If there is such a thing, what is soul? If there is such a thing,
1:01.7	what is it? If there is such a thing, uh, does it, is it mortal or immortal? Is it, does it have a life that is destined not to perish? Or is it perishable? Much like the souls of other forms of animal
1:09.5	life or plant life, you know?
1:11.6	Because of course, as you know, Aristotle, it says that even plants have souls,
1:16.6	just to say that something is soul, is to say that it's alive.
1:19.6	It has a principle of life within it.
1:22.6	So everything that's living has got a soul.
1:24.6	The question is, is that soul, can it in the form of a human person,
1:30.0	cannot live forever? Oscar Kulman, I believe it was, contrasted the doctrine of the immortality
1:38.1	of the soul with the resurrection from the dead and concluded that actually the immortality of the soul
1:44.1	is not really scriptural,
1:46.3	that what the scriptures tell it teach us about death is that we rise in Jesus,
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