Thomas Aquinas on the Eucharist and Trinitarian Communion | Fr. Reginald Lynch, O.P.

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🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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This lecture was given on March 19th, 2024, at University of Edinburgh.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. Reginald Lynch is a Dominican priest of the Province of St. Joseph and is currently an assistant professor of dogmatic and historical theology at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC (USA). His research has focused on a range of issues in historical and dogmatic theology, especially the sacramental theology of Thomas Aquinas. His first book, The Cleansing of the Heart: The Sacraments as Instrumental Causes in the Thomistic Tradition appeared in the Thomistic Ressourcement series at the Catholic University of America Press in 2017. This book examines Aquinas' approach to the efficacy of the sacraments, taking into account relevant textual developments and the implications of Aquinas' account of grace and sanctification in the context of broader developments in medieval theology. His most recent monograph focuses on Aquinas' Eucharistic theology in its original textual and historical context, and the reception history of Aquinas' approach to this subject. This book, Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae and Eucharistic Sacrifice in the Early Modern Period is being published by Oxford University Press in the Changing Paradigms in Historical and Systematic Theology series. Scheduled to appear in early 2024, this volume begins with Aquinas' thought in its medieval textual and historical context, and then proceeds to examine a series of later Dominican and Jesuit receptions of Aquinas' text.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tumistic Institute podcast.
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0:21.6	to mystic institute.org. Well, thank you very much for that introduction, and thank you to all
0:30.1	of you as well for making time to be here. I'm really happy to have the chance to speak to you
0:35.1	and to just be able to share some time speaking about St.
0:39.4	Thomas's thought, particularly his Eucharistic theology and how we can think about that
0:44.2	in relation to something as important as grace and Trinitarian communion.
0:49.8	So this talk will have sort of three basic parts, right?
0:53.5	So I'm going to begin by talking about sacraments in general and how sacraments relate to the human person in God's providential plan and how that works.
1:04.1	But then the Eucharist specifically as a sacrament.
1:06.9	I'll also be speaking about the Eucharist as a sacrifice.
1:10.6	So unlike other sacraments, the Eucharist is not only a sacrament, but a sacrifice. So I'll say more about that. And in that particular context, when thinking about the Eucharist as a sacrifice, I'm going to say a bit about human acts and what it means to be drawn into Trinitarian Communion by the power of grace and how specific
1:31.1	kinds of virtues help not only with that general trajectory of divinization. So we can think of the
1:37.6	three theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity, for example. But there are specific moral
1:43.3	virtues. And here I'm thinking of the virtue of religion
1:45.7	specifically, and I'll say more about that in a second part, that the virtue of religion
1:50.7	provides a framework in St. Thomas's thought for thinking about sacramental participation,
1:57.4	on the one hand, liturgy, and in a special sense in the Eucharist, our participation in the
2:03.0	sacrifice of Jesus Christ. So that'll be the second part. In the final part, I'll talk a little bit
2:09.1	about the nature of grace, what grace is, how it's related to the Trinity, and how the Trinity is a
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