Where Lutheranism Disagrees with Thomas Aquinas
Thinking Fellows
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🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of the Thinking Fellows, we take a closer look at the growing interest in Thomas Aquinas especially among younger evangelicals and even many Lutherans. We talk through why Aquinas is appealing to so many today, but also why the Lutheran Reformers pushed back on key parts of his theology. That includes the big questions of grace, salvation, and whether human effort plays any role in standing before God.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | My name is Caleb Keith, and today I am joined by Scott Keith, Bruce Hillman, John Hoyum, and Adam Francisco. |
| 0:30.0 | To talk about Thomas Aquinas of all things, I can't remember if we've talked about. |
| 0:36.3 | We have, we have done an episode |
| 0:38.3 | on Aquinas. Oh, we did in like great thinkers of the Christian faith series. Wow, that was |
| 0:43.6 | a long time ago, um, that we did that. But today we're going to talk about Aquinas because |
| 0:49.6 | Aquinas is gaining popularity. Of course he is. |
| 0:56.6 | You know, I'm sure this happens in waves. |
| 0:59.0 | Oh my Lord. |
| 1:03.9 | But not with the crowd you would suspect, I suppose, is the thing. |
| 1:04.8 | And this is... Oh, can I guess? |
| 1:06.0 | Young men? |
| 1:07.4 | No, that was, yeah. |
| 1:08.2 | So young men, I would say evangelicals looking for a more serious faith |
| 1:12.3 | um who else is gaining popularity with uh certain certain lutherans certain reforms so so protestants |
| 1:21.2 | uh i would say like people considering the ones that call themselves scholastic yeah those ones |
| 1:27.2 | um are people actually calling themselves scholastic yeah those ones um are people actually calling |
| 1:29.6 | themselves scholastic are there yeah you know you know you know at least one that i mean i mean |
| 1:35.2 | it does i didn't know they described themselves that way oh it identifies himself that way |
| 1:40.0 | no no it's totally yeah it was totally a thing. |
| 1:45.0 | In fact, there's a... I'm a scholastic. |
| 1:46.4 | We had, I had an experience where I had people come jump me a little bit at church, bombarding |
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