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Catholic Doctrine and Judaism – Prof. Gavin D'Costa
Season 13
Prof. Gavin D’Costa explains how, since Vatican II, the Catholic Church has rethought its relationship to Judaism by affirming the enduring validity …
3 months ago
Justified by Grace, Works, or Faith? – Prof. Michael Root
Season 13
Prof. Michael Root argues that, in Catholic theology, we are saved wholly by the unmerited grace of Christ, and that this grace brings us into a Spir…
3 months, 1 week ago
Why the Catholic Church Has Priests – Fr. Dominic Langevin, O.P.
Season 13
Fr. Dominic Langevin defends the Catholic priesthood as a divinely willed, sacramental system of mediation in which ordained men, configured to Chris…
3 months, 1 week ago
Aquinas on Predestination: The Main Issues – Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P.
Season 13
Fr. John Baptist Ku unpacks St. Thomas Aquinas’s doctrine of predestination, showing how God’s universal salvific will, efficacious grace, and real h…
3 months, 1 week ago
Immorality and Immateriality – Prof. Thomas Osborne
Season 13
Prof. Thomas Osborne clarifies how, for Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, the distinctive immateriality of human intellectual knowledge grounds a phi…
3 months, 1 week ago
Beyond Work and Play: Aristotle on Friendship, Contemplation, and The Value of Human Activity – Prof. Marshall Bierson
Season 13
Prof. Marshall Bierson uses Aristotle’s distinction between work, play, and deeper “energetic” activities to argue that friendship and contemplation …
3 months, 1 week ago
St. Thomas Aquinas on Pleasure and the Good Life – Dr. Erik Dempsey
Season 13
Dr. Erik Dempsey explains how St. Thomas Aquinas sees pleasure as a natural and God-given part of the good life, one that both signals our true human…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Suffering and the Communion of Saints – Prof. Timothy O'Connor
Season 13
Prof. Timothy O’Connor examines why an all-loving, omnipotent God permits horrendous suffering and explores how, within a Christian framework, such e…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Friendship: The Art of Striving and Thriving Together – Sr. Mary Madeline Todd, O.P.
Season 13
Sr. Mary Madeline Todd draws upon Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, and friendship with Christ in order to show that sharing a common journey and life, …
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Burnout Society – Dr. R.J. Snell
Season 13
Dr. R. J. Snell analyzes our “burnout society” as an achievement-obsessed culture that drives people to anxiety, depression, and exhaustion by demand…
3 months, 2 weeks ago