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Feb. 14, 2022

Evolution, Natural Selection, and God's Causality (Aquinas 101)

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Is it possible for God to accomplish his plan through chance events in the world? This is a key question, not only for a right understanding of the theories of evolution…

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Feb. 10, 2022

What Makes a Good Person? The Cardinal Virtues and Living Well | Prof. Patrick Callahan

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 "Fortitude is the distinctly human virtue. As Josef Pieper said [in his book, 'The Four Cardinal Virtues']: 'Fortitude presupposes vulnerability. Without vulnerability, there is no possibility for fortitude. An angel cannot…

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Feb. 7, 2022

God or Randomness? Wrong Question! (Aquinas 101)

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Can science explain the order we find in the world, without God? Is the universe and all the things in it the result of an absolutely random and absolutely unguided process?…

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Feb. 3, 2022

How Many Friends Should I Have? ‘A Lot,’ says Thomas Aquinas | Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P.

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 "How many friends should I have? The answer is all of them. We should have all the friends. At least we should have all three types of friends. We should have…

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Jan. 28, 2022

St. Thomas Aquinas' Pursuit of Wisdom and Friendship with God | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 This homily by Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. was given on Thursday, Jan. 27 in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception for the Catholic University of America's annual…

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Jan. 27, 2022

What Makes a Person Good? The Cardinal Virtues and Living Well | Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P.

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 "Because the virtues first and foremost have the effect of perfecting the movement of intellect, of will, and of our appetites, it is in that regard that the virtues make us…

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Jan. 24, 2022

Are Creation and Evolution Compatible? (Aquinas 101)

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Are creation and evolution compatible? Fr. Thomas Davenport, O.P., a physicist and Dominican friar from the Province of St. Joseph, weighs in on the creation and evolution debate. Are Creation and…

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Jan. 20, 2022

How Is My iPhone Changing Me? Neuroscience and Thomistic Psychology | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 "Demons assault us by the same mechanism and for the same reason as the ever adapting and insidious algorithm, in order to explore this inward disposition of man, to discern susceptibility…

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Jan. 13, 2022

Is Belief in God Rational? Faith & Reason in the Life of John Henry Newman | Prof. Nathaniel Peters

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 "'Verily, verily, I say unto you,' says the Divine Speaker, 'I am the Door of the sheep … I am the Good Shepherd, and know My sheep, and am known of…

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Jan. 10, 2022

Can Modern Science Predict the Future? (Aquinas 101)

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 How predictable is the natural world? Can modern science predict the future? Fr. Thomas Davenport, O.P., a physicist and Dominican friar from the Province of St. Joseph, weighs in on indeterminacy…

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Jan. 6, 2022

How Does the Mystery of the Incarnation Reveal the Trinity? | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 "As the first Vatican Council rightly stated, in response to the conundrums of Enlightenment skepticism, that only God can illuminate us as to how to live through suffering and what its…

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Dec. 29, 2021

Aquinas on the Incarnation | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Aquinas responds [to Jewish and Muslim medieval arguments against the Incarnation] in the corpus of [article 1 of question 1 of the tertia pars] by saying the key attribute or property…

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Dec. 22, 2021

On the Incarnation: Why Did God Become Man? | Prof. Corey Barnes

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 The synoptic Gospels share in John's presentation a thoroughly unexpected Messiah, and the very range of activities and characteristics ascribed to Jesus of Nazareth in the canonical Gospels confound in numerous…

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Dec. 16, 2021

The Church Fathers and Aquinas on Christ's Human Knowledge | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Aquinas' arguments for Christ's perfect human supernatural knowledge are set within three larger claims, or three larger overarching perspectives. First, that Christ is the Savior of the world by way of…

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Dec. 13, 2021

Is Nature Inherently Random? (Aquinas 101)

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Is nature inherently random, fundamentally disordered, and simply unintelligible? Or, can order arise from apparent randomness and chaos in the natural world? Where does God fit in? Fr. Thomas Davenport, O.P.,…

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Dec. 9, 2021

St. Thomas Aquinas On The Blessed Mother | Fr. Thomas Petri, O.P.

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 "When we think about the human race, we should not first think of Adam and Eve -- the first man and woman -- as the paradigm. The Blessed Mother is the…

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Dec. 6, 2021

Has the Universe Always Existed? (Aquinas 101)

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Has the universe always existed? Or, can we prove that it had a beginning? Fr. Thomas Davenport, O.P., a Dominican friar from the Province of St. Joseph, breaks down St. Thomas…

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Dec. 2, 2021

LIVESTREAM - Christ: The Cause of our Joy

LIVESTREAM - Christ: The Cause of our Joy A lecture by Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P. of the Dominican House of Studies About the speaker Fr. John Baptist Ku was born in Manhattan and grew up in Fairfax, Virginia. After graduating from the University of Virginia, he worked at AT&T…

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Dec. 2, 2021

Infused Virtue and Growth in the Christian Moral Life | Prof. Angela Knobel

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 "We cannot live our Christian vocation to the full unless and until the new first principles given by faith pervade even our deliberation about the means. So long as we believe…

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Nov. 29, 2021

Yes, There is a Theory of Everything! (Aquinas 101)

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Yes, there is a theory of everything—but it may not be what you expect! Centuries before Dr. Stephen Hawking entered the field of theoretical physics, St. Thomas Aquinas put forth a…

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Nov. 22, 2021

Is There a Theory of Everything? (Aquinas 101)

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Is there a theory of everything? Could theoretical physicist Dr. Stephen Hawking be correct? Fr. Thomas Davenport, O.P., a Dominican friar from the Province of St. Joseph, explores whether or not…

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Nov. 18, 2021

The Middle Ages: Dark or Golden Age? | Prof. Brad Gregory

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 "The actual past — the actual lived human past — in every time and place (the middle ages is only one example), was almost always way more complex, messy and difficult…

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Nov. 15, 2021

Creation Isn't What You Think It Is! (Aquinas 101)

🎥, Keep the Aquinas 101 cameras rolling! Donate $5 today: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 What is creation? This is an important question, not only for faith, but also for philosophy and for science. Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., a Dominican friar from the Province of St. Joseph, explains St. Thomas Aquinas's answer. What is…

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Nov. 11, 2021

Brides of Christ: Jesus' Discourses with Women in the Gospel of John

Brides of Christ: Jesus' Discourses with Women in the Gospel of John A lecture by Prof. Jody Lewis of the Dominican House of Studies About the Speaker: Professor Lewis works in the areas of the New Testament and Patristics. She teaches courses on the Synoptic Gospels, Johannine Writings, and Pauline…

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