Podcast Episodes

Why Did God Become Man? The Absolute Primacy of Christ According to Blessed Duns Scotus – Prof. Thomas Ward

Season 12

Prof. Thomas Ward explains Scotus’s bold claim that the Incarnation is not primarily a response to human sin, but the centerpiece of God’s eternal plan for creation, so that Christ would have become …

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Participation in the Divine Nature: Aquinas and the Catholic Vision of Theosis – Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.

Season 12

Fr. Gregory Pine explains that, according to Aquinas, Christians are called to true divinization or theosis: by grace and the sacraments they really come to share in God’s own life without becoming G…

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What Difference Did Christianity Make? Why the Ancient Greeks, Romans, and Irish Converted – Fr. Terence Crotty, O.P.

Season 12

Fr. Terence Crotty argues that Christianity spread so rapidly because it uniquely answered the human search for truth and happiness while transforming social life through charity, dignity for slaves …

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The Disappearing Man: Body, Soul, and the Question of Who We Are – Dr. Paul LaPenna

Season 12

Dr. Paul LaPenna uses the dramatic case of a man in a coma from autoimmune brain disease to show that personal identity endures despite severe loss of abilities, arguing from neurology and Thomistic …

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Rebutting Necessitarian Universalism: Three Thomistic Arguments – Prof. Mats Wahlberg

Season 12

Prof. Mats Wahlberg argues that “necessitarian universalism”—the claim that hell is metaphysically impossible and that God must save all rational creatures—is incompatible with core Christian metaphy…

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Reprobation and Permission of Sin – Prof. Thomas Osborne

Season 12

Prof. Thomas Osborne explains reprobation and the permission of sin in Thomas Aquinas as the asymmetrical counterpart to predestination, where God positively causes the grace and merits leading the e…

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Aquinas's Interpretation of Predestination in Scripture – Fr. Piotr Roszak

Season 12

Fr. Piotr Roszak shows how Thomas Aquinas interprets predestination through a deeply biblical lens, reading predestination as God’s merciful, Christ-centered plan to lead creation freely to a superna…

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Why is Thomism so Fixated on Predestination? – Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, O.P.

Season 12

Fr. Cajetan Cuddy explains that Thomism is “fixated” on predestination because this doctrine lies at the speculative and practical center of the Thomistic vision of reality, uniting its key philosoph…

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What is predestination? – Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

Season 12

Fr. Dominic Legge explains predestination as a profoundly hopeful Catholic doctrine rooted in God’s eternal, loving plan to give grace and lead rational creatures freely to the supernatural end of th…

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Does Nature Make Laws? – Prof. Raymond Hain

This lecture was given on September 8th, 2025, at United States Military Academy.

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