WOF 435: The Enduring Relevance of St. Thomas Aquinas

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Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Most in contemporary secular culture have probably never heard of the name “Thomas Aquinas.” However, his thought remains more pertinent than ever—not only to theology and philosophy but also to current conversations on how to build a more stable, just, and prosperous political order. Today, we discuss the evergreen genius of St. Thomas Aquinas and how his legacy continues in the life and work of the contemporary Dominican theologian, Fr. Paul Murray.

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00:00 | Intro
01:12 | Bishop Barron in Rome
02:01 | Aquinas’ impact on Bishop Barron’s formation
03:56 | Why medieval thinkers like Aquinas still matter
06:18 | The relationship between metaphysics and ethics
07:29 | God as Being itself rather than as the greatest of beings
12:43 | How God can be both transcendent and immanent
15:58 | God’s non-competitive relationship with Creation
21:29 | Defining true human and social goods
23:00 | Does metaphysical speculation have a role in politics?
25:45 | Fr. Paul Murray, St. Thomas Aquinas, and the Dominican charism
29:54 | Listener question
31:49 | Word on Fire Institute

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Matthew Petrucic Senior Director of the Word on Fire Institute and the host of the Word on Fire Show.
0:08.0	Thank you for joining us. The enduring relevance of St. Thomas Aquinas.
0:13.6	Most in contemporary secular culture have probably never heard of the name
0:17.6	Thomas Aquinas, and if they have, they likely vaguely associated
0:21.8	with the medieval Dark Ages, which is one of the most flagrant
0:25.8	misnomers for a historical period in the history of ideas.
0:29.8	Well, it's true, St Thomas Aquinas did indeed write close to 800 years ago and in Latin.
0:36.0	However, his thought remains more pertinent than ever, not only to theology and philosophy, but also to current conversations on how to build a more stable, a more just, and a
0:46.4	more prosperous political order. Today to discuss the evergreen genius of one of
0:51.7	Catholicism's greatest Saints and Doctors of the Church,
0:54.8	and how his legacy continues in the life and work of the contemporary Dominican theologian
0:59.2	Father Paul Murray is Bishop Robert Barron. Well, Bishop, we're going to be.
1:04.0	Well, Bishop, welcome back to the studio. Before we get into today's topic, you
1:16.9	recently made a big trip to Rome for two reasons. So what were you doing?
1:20.7	Yeah, I was invited by the Pontifical Academy for the Social Sciences to give a paper at a conference
1:26.3	they were sponsoring.
1:27.3	And it was for about 30 scholars.
1:29.0	It wasn't open to the general public.
1:30.7	It was this scholar was kind of talking to each other, but around this
1:34.1	theme of Aquinas' metaphysics in relation to Catholic social doctrine.
1:39.5	So the head of the Academy, Cardinal Turkson invited me to come give the talk.
1:45.2	I was also there because my friend Paul Murray, who's a great friend of Word on Fire, we published books
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