The Rationality of Christian Belief w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. & Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.
The Thomistic Institute
The Thomistic Institute
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🗓️ 25 April 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Is Christian belief rational? Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. for an off-campus conversation with Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. to find out — and to learn about a new book from Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.!
You can watch this interview on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/VI_iUH355y4
About the speaker:
Fr. Thomas Joseph White is the Rector Magnificus of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum) in Rome. Originally a native of southeastern Georgia in the US, Fr. White studied at Brown University, where he converted to Catholicism. He did his doctoral studies in theology at Oxford University, and is the author of various books and articles including Wisdom in the Face of Modernity: A Study in Thomistic Natural Theology (Sapientia Press, 2011), The Incarnate Lord, A Thomistic Study in Christology (The Catholic University of America Press, 2015) Exodus (Brazos Press, 2016), The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism (Catholic University Press, 2017), and The Trinity: On the Nature and Mystery of the One God (Catholic University Press, 2022). He is co-editor of the journal Nova et Vetera, a Distinguished Scholar of the McDonald Agape Foundation, and a member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Timistic Institute podcast. |
| 0:11.9 | I'm Father Gregory Pine and delighted to join you for this installment of off-campus' |
| 0:16.5 | conversations where we link up with a Tem Mystic Institute speaker and talk about what strikes |
| 0:21.9 | our fancy. Maybe it's following up from a lecture on campus. Maybe it's following up from a recent |
| 0:26.5 | publication. And the latter case is what we have here today. So I'm delighted to be joined by |
| 0:31.3 | Father Thomas Joseph White. Father Thomas Joseph, how are you? Doing well. Thank you so much, Gregory. |
| 0:36.6 | And it's great to be here. Hey, cheers. So well. Thank you so much, Gregory, and it's great to be here. |
| 0:37.8 | Hey, cheers. So folks will know you because the Temistic Institute podcast, it started out where |
| 0:44.8 | you and Father Dominic were like, what if we just put a cell phone on the podium when we gave |
| 0:49.8 | lectures at these campuses? So a lot of folks are familiar with you, but they've probably heard less from |
| 0:54.8 | you in the past four or five years since you moved across the pond, the ocean, whatever it is, |
| 1:01.3 | to Rome, first to direct the Thomistic Institute, and now to serve as rector of the Angelicum. |
| 1:07.5 | But can you pepper in a few more details? People are wondering, wait, I think I've seen this guy. I think he plays the banjo, maybe the dulcimer, maybe other things besides. Could you just tell a little bit about who you are, where you're from, what you do? |
| 1:21.0 | I think you're referring to the Hillbilly Tomists. So I suppose that is probably what's best known is that I play the banjo in the Hillbilly |
| 1:30.0 | Thomas who have a fourth album called Marigold, which is about to come out in, I think, the next |
| 1:34.7 | six weeks or so. |
| 1:37.0 | But I also do write theology books and philosophy a little bit inside those theology books |
| 1:44.0 | and teach and I'm the administrator |
| 1:47.1 | or the rector of the angelicum in Rome, which is, you know, an immense honor and obligation. |
| 1:55.3 | Hey, we're grateful that you do it and there's a lot of good vibes coming out of Rome as a result so people |
| 2:01.4 | are getting excited about the project delighted to chip in in so far as they can all right so |
| 2:07.3 | apropos of the books let's see you've written wisdom in the face of modernity an adaptation of |
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