Thomistic Philosophy as a Remedy for Today's Crisis of Faith | Prof. Francis Beckwith

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🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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This talk was given on March 28th, 2023 at Regent University. For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Francis J. Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy & Church-State Studies and Affiliate Professor of Political Science at Baylor University, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy. Among his over one dozen books are Never Doubt Thomas: The Catholic Aquinas as Evangelical and Protestant (Baylor University Press, 2019), Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and Taking Rites Seriously: Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith (Cambridge University Press, 2015), winner of the American Academy of Religion's prestigious 2016 Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Constructive-Reflective Studies. He is a graduate of the Washington University School of Law, St. Louis (MJS) as well as Fordham University (PhD, MA, philosophy).

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tumistic Institute podcast.
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0:30.6	I want to share with you how I think the work of Thomas Aquinas can be helpful in thinking through certain questions
0:42.5	concerning religion and theology. I want to begin with the question, who is, who was Thomas
0:51.2	Aquinas? And I plan on talking for maybe about 45 minutes or so and then open up the floor for
0:57.3	questions you may have.
0:59.8	I have on my study sheet, which all of you should have a copy of, I plan on discussing
1:07.0	three topics, and I really want to stick to that. So I may go through these rather
1:14.3	briskly, but it's either that or just one topic. And I wanted to sort of give you an overview of how
1:21.1	I think Aquinas can be really helpful in thinking through some contemporary questions. So who was Thomas Aquinas?
1:28.3	He was a 13th century Catholic priest in the Dominican order.
1:33.4	He grew up in a portion of which is now modern day Italy,
1:38.6	which is the Naples area.
1:40.6	He grew up in an aristocratic family,
1:42.8	was the youngest of, I think, a dozen children. I'm not quite
1:46.7	sure. And his parents wanted him to become a Benedictine monk. In fact, when he was five, six years old,
1:54.3	he was placed in a Benedicting monastery in order to be educated. But after he spent some time at the University of
2:03.1	Naples, which was largely a secular university, he was drawn to the work of Aristotle and also
2:12.3	to a new religious order that had arisen not too many years earlier called the Dominicans, the order of preachers.
2:20.3	And it arose at the same time as the Franciscans, another what is called a mendicant order.
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