Why We Need Grace | Thomas Joseph White, O.P.

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🗓️ 18 November 2024

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This lecture was given on December 15th, 2023, at The Dominican House of Studies.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. Thomas Joseph White is the Rector Magnificus of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum) in Rome. Originally a native of southeastern Georgia in the US, Fr. White studied at Brown University, where he converted to Catholicism. He did his doctoral studies in theology at Oxford University, and is the author of various books and articles including Wisdom in the Face of Modernity: A Study in Thomistic Natural Theology (Sapientia Press, 2011), The Incarnate Lord, A Thomistic Study in Christology (The Catholic University of America Press, 2015) Exodus (Brazos Press, 2016), The Light of Christ: An Introduction to Catholicism (Catholic University Press, 2017), and The Trinity: On the Nature and Mystery of the One God (Catholic University Press, 2022). He is co-editor of the journal Nova et Vetera, a Distinguished Scholar of the McDonald Agape Foundation, and a member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Thomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.8	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:13.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
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0:25.3	Let me just contextualize a little bit what we're going to do in these four lectures, as I see it, or engagements.
0:32.6	In the 13th century, Thomas Aquinas was certainly the most important, prolific, and influential theologian.
0:39.3	He was not the only major theologian. I mean, there was St. Bonaventure, St. Albert the Great,
0:45.6	these people were prolific. They were saints. They were beautiful writers and thinkers.
0:51.1	But Aquinas was a real important moment in the history of theology for thinking more deeply about the mystery of grace, which we'll come to and talk about in a minute.
1:02.0	And you can study grace throughout many of his works, and in the Sumo Theologiae, there's a lot on grace in different places.
1:10.0	However, that all being said, there's one place in the Sumo theologia, there's a lot on grace in different places. However, that all being said,
1:12.7	there's one place in the first part of the second part, the Prima Secundi, of the famous Summithelogia,
1:19.8	where he talks about grace in these basically in these seven or so questions. And what we've done
1:27.4	is we've taken them, given you the, you know, the
1:29.9	core parts of them. I am not today, this evening, I'm not going to really read from the text.
1:35.5	Tomorrow, I think the text I'm going to present to you short enough that I might actually
1:38.9	just read through it with you or parts of it. It follows a logical order. I'm not really going to try to explain that.
1:46.2	I have been commenting on this text, as I know Father Dominic has also, for about 10 years,
1:51.5	teaching it every year, and I've always found more in it. So this is like just a first
1:55.8	introduction. It's supposed to be accessible. If it's not accessible, you know, maybe we'll
2:00.6	not have succeeded,
2:01.4	but I think it will be. And so part of the idea is to give you kind of the big picture of what's
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