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Let the Best One Win: Reflections of Friendship and Competition – Prof. Michael Krom
Season 12
Prof. Michael Krom explores how athletic rivalry, when rooted in justice and love of the good, can deepen genuine friendship, build virtue, and lead …
6 months ago
Friendship and the Digital Age: A Thomistic Reflection on Human Connection – Prof. Joshua Hochschild
Season 12
Prof. Joshua Hochschild argues that digital culture reshapes friendship and attention through Curiositas and acedia, offering a path of renewal by cu…
6 months ago
Why Get Married? The Catholic View of the Meaning and Purpose of Marriage – Prof. Michael Dauphinais
Season 12
Prof. Michael Dauphinais explains marriage as a lifelong covenant of self-giving love between a man and a woman that images Christ’s union with the C…
6 months ago
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 pl…
6 months, 1 week ago
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 …
6 months, 1 week ago
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 transformin…
6 months, 1 week ago
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 o…
6 months, 1 week ago
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 cre…
6 months, 1 week ago
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 po…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
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-…
6 months, 2 weeks ago