⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Where does life come from? Is it caused by God? Or does it result from a vast and complex interaction of causes within the world? Could the answer be: both? In…
⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Prof. Knobel's presentation slides can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/2p8as75m This lecture was given on March 24, 2022 at Texas State University. About the speaker: Angela Knobel is Associate Professor of Philosophy…
⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Why do Dominicans wear Harry Potter capes? What do the parts of the Dominican habit signify? Big questions like these have been popping up in the comment boxes of our Aquinas…
⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Big questions have been popping up in the comment boxes of our Aquinas 101 videos since the start of our very first season. In this new video series with Fr. Ambrose…
⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 "Truth is not something to be wary of. All truth, any truth, if it is, in fact, truth, will be in conformity with your cherished views…provided they are true. Aquinas writes:…
⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 "Could it be that my longing is not just for something beautiful, but for beauty itself — for the infinite and original beauty of which the beautiful things of this world…
⭐️ 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 do we interpret the Genesis creation accounts? Should these Biblical accounts be read literally? Do they contradict scientific findings for the origins of the universe? In this episode of Aquinas…
⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 "God chooses with artistic intent to give rise to the universe, but he does so in utter freedom from self-interest, and this implies necessarily that God's creative act is a gesture…
⭐️ 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 should we interpret Biblical accounts of creation? Do they contradict scientific findings for the origins of the universe? In this episode of Aquinas 101: Science and Faith, join Fr. Jordan…
⭐️ 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 fulfillment of the vocation of an intellectual, in service to Church and society, requires both contemplative and active activities; both the pursuit of knowledge through study and the communication of…
⭐️ 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 should we interpret Biblical accounts of creation? Do they contradict scientific findings for the origins of the universe? In this episode of Aquinas 101: Science and Faith, join Fr. Jordan…
⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 "Concluding his lesson, Virgil reiterates that the will is necessarily oriented in a certain direction, but that some power to chart the course is in us. And he warns again that…
⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Does science contradict the Bible? How do we reconcile the differences between the Bible and science regarding the origin and operation of the universe? Does the Bible need to be corrected…
⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 "Cicero, [is his dialogue on friendship where he talks about a friend of his who had recently died], discussed the reason why they were drawn to each. He remarks upon the…
⭐️ 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 did life on Earth really begin? How can contemporary scientific accounts of the origins of life on Earth be understood alongside the Catholic theology and philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas?…
⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 [In the disputed question model], Aquinas is attempting — vicariously, because all these people are not sitting in the Agora with him — to bring various voices into the conversation. And…
⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 "Logos, ethos, and pathos [that is, the philosophy that instructs, the spirit/character that delights and entertains, and the appeal that moves and inspires] are all employed to one end in great…
⭐️ 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 do divine providence, random events, and free choices relate to each other, especially in regards to scientific theories like the big bang, evolution, and quantum mechanics? Is there a conflict…
⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 "In the Commedia as a whole, only the three main protagonists, the pilgrim Dante himself, Virgil, and Beatrice, are afforded more lines or more words than Aquinas. In his prose work,…
⭐️ 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…
⭐️ 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…
⭐️ 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?…
⭐️ 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…
⭐️ 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…