Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine and I'm a Dominican fri of the province of

St. Joseph and this is Pints with the Quines. In this episode we're going to

talk about what it means to be a Thomas. Why? Well because it's a cool question.

Also because Matt sent me a list of topics that he wants me to cover and one of

them was what does it mean to be a Thomas? So here we are. Also I think it's just

interesting in itself. You know this channel is Pints with the Quines, so it has

something to do with the thought of St. Thomas of Quines and people who follow

St. Thomas of Quines, typically identify themselves as Tomists and

presumably they do so for a reason, hopefully a good reason, I myself would

identify as a Thomas and I think I have good reasons for doing so. So let me

explain to you some of my reasoning upon this very subject. Here we go.

Okay so beyond just having something to do with St. Thomas of Quines, I think

we can identify two elements which often feature in this conversation. So one is

like what St. Thomas says and then the other is how St. Thomas

theologizes, okay? So we'll call the first one content and then we'll call the

second one methodology. So let's turn then first to content. So what does St.

Thomas say? A lot of people find it very important to discover and to repeat

what it is that St. Thomas says, I myself think this to be an important

enterprise because St. Thomas of Quines gets a lot of things right and the

church proposes him as an excellent theologian because he gets a lot of things

right. Now we know that St. Thomas has gotten a couple of things wrong so the

macular conception has been subsequently clarified by the church and

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