Theology Episodes

Nov. 18, 2025

Your Eucharistic Identity – Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.

Fr. Gregory Pine explores the Eucharist as the foundation of Catholic identity, showing how sacramental worship unites the past, present, and future of salvation history and invites believers into personal transformation, unity, and divine love.

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Nov. 13, 2025

Would St. Thomas Baptize and Extraterrestrial? – Dr. Edmund Lazzari

Dr. Edmund Lazzari uses Thomistic philosophy and sacramental theology to analyze whether extraterrestrial intelligences could be baptized, exploring questions of nature, the soul, salvation, and God’s freedom to grant grace beyond the human species.​

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Nov. 5, 2025

How to Know God? Philosophical Wisdom and Divine Revelation – Prof. M…

Prof. Michael Dauphinais explores how Thomas Aquinas integrates philosophical wisdom and divine revelation, showing that genuine knowledge of God arises from both reason and the transformative experience of Christ’s incarnation and the Holy Spirit.

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Nov. 4, 2025

Nicene Trinity, Chalcedonian Christology: Understanding Christ throug…

Fr. Gregory Pine explains Nicene Trinitarian theology and Chalcedonian Christology through key councils and controversies, showing how Christ’s incarnation and union with humanity unveil the path to salvation and divine participation.​

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Oct. 31, 2025

Augustine's Account of Trinitarian Image and Thomas Aquinas – Fr. Reg…

Fr. Reginald Lynch’s lecture explores Augustine’s account of the Trinitarian image and its reception by Aquinas, illuminating how the development of grace, human anthropology, and sacramental life shape the Christian journey ...

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Oct. 29, 2025

In the Beginning Was the Word: Augustine, Aristotle, and Aquinas – Fr…

Fr. Dominic Legge’s lecture traces the theological development of the concept of the Word through Augustine, Aristotle, and Aquinas, illuminating the evolution of Trinitarian analogy and the nature of human understanding in medieval philosophy.

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Oct. 17, 2025

Beyond but Not Against Nature: How Grace Perfects and Transforms Natu…

Fr. Cajetan Cuddy explores the relationship between grace and nature, demonstrating how grace perfects, transforms, and preserves the continuity of human nature without destroying its fundamental reality.

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Sept. 10, 2025

Technology In Our Relationship With God I Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P.

Fr. Anselm Ramelow examines how technology shapes and reflects our relationship with God, cautioning against both idolizing technology and seeking salvation through it, while affirming its proper role as an instrument serving...

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Sept. 1, 2025

AI and the Human Person I Prof. Jordan Wales

Prof. Jordan Wales critically examines the relationship between artificial intelligence and human personhood through the lens of Christian theology, exploring how AI challenges traditional notions of intelligence, consciousne...

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Aug. 28, 2025

Origins of the Christian 'Just War' Tradition in Augustine's Anti-Man…

Fr. Andrew Hofer explores the origins of the Christian just war tradition through Augustine’s anti-Manichean writings, examining the theological debates around violence, authority, and moral law within early Christianity.

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Aug. 25, 2025

Render Unto Caesar: Aquinas On the Relationship Between Religion and …

Prof. Michael Krom explores Thomas Aquinas’s view on the relationship between religion and politics, discussing the distinction between obligations to political authority and to God, as reflected in the biblical command to "render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's."

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Aug. 20, 2025

Reading Sacred Scripture with St. Thomas Aquinas I Fr. Isaac Morales,…

Fr. Isaac Morales and Prof. Michael Root explore how Thomas Aquinas’ biblical commentaries on Matthew and 1 Corinthians illuminate the beatific vision, resurrection, and the role of Scripture in shaping Christian life through literal and spiritual interpretation.

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Aug. 15, 2025

Christ vs. Mary? Mary in Catholicism I Prof. Christopher Malloy

Prof. Christopher Malloy defends the Catholic understanding of Mary’s role in salvation history, refuting common objections and demonstrating how her divine maternity, perpetual virginity, and immaculate grace magnify rather than diminish the glory of Christ.

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Aug. 14, 2025

Will Heaven Be Incredibly Boring? I Prof. Christopher Mooney

Prof. Christopher Mooney's lecture confronts the philosophical objection that heaven would be unbearably boring due to its infinite duration, arguing instead that Christian eternity is fulfilled in the beatific vision of God, which offers infinite and undiminished joy.

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Aug. 13, 2025

The Mystery of Predestination: A Catholic Approach I Prof. Bruce Mars…

Prof. Bruce Marshall presents a deep Catholic theological exploration of predestination, examining its biblical foundations, historical development, doctrinal boundaries, and the enduring tension between God’s sovereign will, grace, and human freedom.

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Aug. 11, 2025

Happiness Understood Psychologically and Theologically I Prof. Christ…

Prof. Christopher Kaczor explores the relationship between positive psychology and Catholic theology, uncovering how empirical psychological findings on happiness align with and deepen spiritual practices like gratitude, service, and forgiveness.

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Aug. 8, 2025

Aquinas and Luther on Justification I Dr. Nathaniel Peters

Dr. Nathaniel Peters explores and compares the theological views of Martin Luther and Thomas Aquinas on justification, focusing on grace, faith, merit, and the fundamental differences shaping Catholic and Lutheran perspectives.

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Aug. 7, 2025

Thomas Aquinas on Charity I Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, O.P.

Fr. Cajetan Cuddy provides an in-depth exploration of charity as the highest theological virtue in the thought of Saint Thomas Aquinas, laying foundational principles for understanding just war, peace, and the ordered structure of the Christian moral life.

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Aug. 6, 2025

Martin Luther and Thomas Aquinas Against the Pelagians I Dr. Erik Dem…

Dr. Erik Dempsey explores the positions of Martin Luther and Thomas Aquinas against Pelagianism, highlighting their shared rejection of justification by human effort and their nuanced theological differences on grace, merit, and free will.

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July 28, 2025

St. Augustine on Love for Confused Lovers I Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.

Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., delves into St. Augustine's understanding of love for "confused lovers," drawing from the Confessions to explore the transformative power of God's grace and the ordering of human loves toward divine union.

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July 25, 2025

Catholic Teaching on Birth Control: Beyond Common Misunderstandings I…

Prof. Gina Noia explores the Catholic Church's nuanced teachings on birth control, responsible parenthood, and the moral distinctions between natural family planning, direct contraception, and sterilization, rooted in theological and philosophical reasoning.

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July 15, 2025

The Importance of Friendship in Marriage | Dr. Nathaniel Peters and P…

Dr. Nathaniel Peters and Prof. Jane Peters explore the vocation of marriage as a transformative friendship, highlighting how the goods of marriage—offspring, fidelity, and sacrament—are elevated by grace to foster virtue, mutual delight, and a living witness to Christ’s love.

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July 14, 2025

Is the Biblical View of Sex and Marriage Realistic? | Prof. Michael D…

Prof. Michael Dauphinais explores the realism of the biblical view of sex and marriage, analyzing cultural challenges, scriptural diagnoses, and the transformative power of radical trust in God’s plan for relationships. This ...

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July 7, 2025

Recovering the Image of God in Man (and Woman) | Sr. Elinor Gardner, …

Sr. Elinor Gardner explores the Christian understanding of virtue, emphasizing the theological and cardinal virtues as foundational to human excellence and the restoration of the image of God in man and woman.

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