Wisdom and the Reasons of Love | Prof. Adam Eitel

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🗓️ 29 July 2022

⏱️ 83 minutes

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The podcast discusses St. Thomas Aquinas's account of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, particularly the gift of wisdom, and its necessity for living a life in pursuit of God, emphasizing that virtues alone are insufficient without these divine gifts.

This lecture was given on July 8, 2022 at the 4th Annual Student Leadership Conference on Faith, Reason, and the Mind’s Ascent to God.

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About the speaker: Prof. Adam Eitel is an Assistant Professor of Ethics at Yale Divinity School. Dr. Eitel focuses his research and teaching on the history of Christian moral thought, contemporary social ethics and criticism, and modern religious thought. Dr. Eitel has roughly a dozen books, chapters, edited volumes, and articles published or in progress. These include an ethical analysis of drone strikes and a theological account of domination. His current book project explores the role of love in the moral theology of Thomas Aquinas. A 2004 Baylor University graduate and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Fribourg, Dr. Eitel received his M.Div. and Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary, completing the latter in 2015.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Thomistic Institute.
0:03.3	For more talks like this, visit us at tamisticinstitute.org.
0:10.6	I want to talk to you today about what I think is Thomas's most innovative contribution to the history of Christian and specifically Catholic moral
0:27.5	theology, that is, his account of the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
0:31.7	It's that same account that you'll find enshrined very clearly in the Catholic Catechism.
0:38.9	The gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to Thomas and the tradition more generally, are like virtues.
0:47.8	They're habitual dispositions, but they're not virtues.
0:51.3	There's something else.
0:52.2	And he says that they're absolutely necessary for a life lived and pursued of a living God.
1:02.4	Before I get into the substance of the talk, and today we'll be specifically discussing one of the gifts of the Holy Spirit, namely the gift of wisdom.
1:14.6	I want to just put this in context for you. I want to give a little context.
1:19.6	And the way I want to do that is by this echoing back to you some of the things I've heard you say over the last couple of days.
1:31.2	So what are you doing here?
1:37.0	Well, yesterday, and I think later today, we'll be discussing practical advice on how to best carry out the mission of the Tomistic Institute.
1:49.9	And yesterday I heard you swapping stories about your successes and your failures, your joys,
1:57.2	your heartaches, trading stories about what works and what doesn't work.
2:03.6	What is this?
2:04.6	You've been gathering together to share wise counsel, to sharpen one another's thinking, and
2:14.6	to exhort and encourage one another. It's a practical exercise, a pursuit of
2:20.3	practical wisdom, an effort to judge, to make sense of the activities of the Tumistic Institute,
2:31.3	and the persons that you're hoping to bring into contact with those
2:35.7	activities and the institutional context in which you're hoping to make all this happen.
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