What Does "Creation" Really Mean? w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. & Dr. William Carroll

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🗓️ 5 December 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

What does it really mean to say the world is "created," according to St. Thomas Aquinas? Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Dr. William Carroll about what "creation" really means, St. Thomas Aquinas on creation and time, cosmology, understanding science and creation, the harmony of science and faith, and more!

You can watch this interview on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mZIcosauUU.

About the speaker: Professor William E. Carroll has recently retired from research and teaching at the Aquinas Institute of Blackfriars in the University of Oxford. For the past two years he has been a Visiting Professor at the Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (Wuhan, China), and at the Hongyi Honor College of Wuhan University. He is a European intellectual historian and historian of science whose research and teaching concern: 1) the reception of Aristotelian science in mediaeval Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, and the development of the doctrine of creation, and 2) the encounter between Galileo and the Inquisition. He has also written extensively on the ways in which mediaeval discussions of the relationship among the natural sciences, philosophy, and theology can be useful in contemporary questions arising from developments in biology and cosmology.

He is the author of four books: Aquinas on Creation; La Creación y las Ciencias Naturales: Actualidad de Santo Tomás de Aquino; Galileo: Science and Faith; and Creation and Science (with translations in Slovak, Spanish, and Chinese). His published work has appeared in 12 languages.

Over many years he has written more than 25 op-ed pieces for Public Discourse, the web site of the Witherspoon Institute at Princeton.

This project/publication was made possible through the support of Grant 63391 from the John Templeton Foundation. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation.

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0:00.0	Hello, and welcome back to the Timistic Institute podcast. My name is Father Gregory Pine,
0:14.3	and it's a joy to share with you, another one of these off-campus conversations where I follow
0:20.3	up with a speaker
0:21.7	who will have lectured on campus or in the context of a retreat or a conference, just chase down some
0:27.6	insights and yeah, just deepen the conversation on themes that fall within the Catholic
0:33.5	intellectual tradition. So for this installment, I'm very delighted to be joined by Dr. William
0:37.9	Carroll. Thanks so much for joining. Well, I'm happy to be here. So folks might know you or may
0:46.2	have heard from you. You've given several lectures for the Timistic Institute, both for the
0:51.5	Science Conference, the kind of to mystic natural philosophy and modern
0:54.9	science conference, and then also on campuses.
0:57.9	You're now doing a series of seminars for the students at Yale.
1:01.6	But for those who haven't encountered you, would you just say a word of introduction, who you
1:05.0	are and where are you from and what you do?
1:07.0	Okay.
1:08.6	Well, I am recently retired from teaching and research. Okay. Well, I am recently retired from teaching and research at Oxford University at the Aquinas Institute at Blackfire, the Dominican College of Oxford.
1:22.6	At Oxford, I was also a member of the faculty of Theology, one now is called Religion and Theology,
1:31.2	in a special section on religion and science, teaching undergraduate courses and graduate seminars
1:37.9	on questions concerning the relationship between religion and science.
1:44.9	Prior to go into Oxford, I taught for almost 30 years at the liberal arts college in Iowa,
1:51.9	Cornell College.
1:53.3	My training, academic background, is in intellectual history and the history of science.
2:01.6	And my special interest in those areas are the reception of Aristotelian science in medieval
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