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July 15, 2022

The Powers Of The Soul | Fr. James Brent, 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 "The human soul has obediential potency. Now, obediential potency is a term that Thomists will use to name a certain kind of potentiality that is in all created things to be…

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July 12, 2022

On Aristotle and Aquinas’ Prime Mover Argument (Aquinas 101) #shorts

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July 11, 2022

Do We Really Inherit Original Sin from Adam and Eve? (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 Do we really inherit original sin from Adam and Eve? In this episode of Aquinas 101: Science and Faith, join Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., a Dominican friar from the Province of…

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July 8, 2022

What are the Precepts of the Natural Law? (Aquinas 101) #shorts

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July 1, 2022

Is Belief in God Rational? | 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 "What I want to emphasize in this talk is how Aquinas' conception of rational theological belief includes both much less than and much more than strictly demonstrative proofs or philosophical argumentation.…

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June 29, 2022

Is Natural Law the Means for Salvation? (Aquinas 101) #shorts

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June 27, 2022

The Natural Law, Christian salvation and more! #AskAFriar (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 What does the Natural Law have to do with Christian salvation? Where does Aquinas affirm the existence of Prime Matter? Do evil people have evil souls? Big questions like these have…

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June 27, 2022

On the supernatural elevation of human nature (Aquinas 101) #shorts

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June 20, 2022

What Was Life Like in the Garden of Eden? On Original Justice (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 What Was Life Like in the Garden of Eden? Why was it fitting for God to create human beings in a state of original justice, or with an original grace? In…

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June 6, 2022

Did Adam and Eve Really Exist? (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 Did Adam and Eve really exist? In this episode of Aquinas 101: Science and Faith, Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. examines how we can reconcile Genesis with scientific theories of human history.…

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May 31, 2022

How the Prime Mover Argument Works #AskAFriar (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 could an eternal universe have a prime mover? What can Aristotle's Prime Mover argument and St. Thomas’s famous Five Ways tell us about motion and time? Big questions like these…

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May 16, 2022

What does Genesis tell us about Adam and Eve? (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 What does Genesis tell us about Adam and Eve? Is this text meant to transmit to us a scientific or precise historical account of creation or of human origins? In this…

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May 13, 2022

Finding Consolation in the Book of Revelation | Prof. Nina Heereman

⭐️ 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 lecture was given on March 21, 2022 at the University of California, Berkeley. About the speaker: Dr. Heereman was born and raised in a devout Catholic family in Germany. Originally…

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May 9, 2022

Evolution and the Creation of Man (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 Where does intelligent life come from? Can one reconcile evolution and the creation of man? Does human life simply emerge or evolve from lower forms of life? In this episode of…

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May 6, 2022

Why You Can't Reverse Engineer Human Beings: The Metaphysics of the Soul | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

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May 2, 2022

Where Does Life Come From? Evolution and God's Creation (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 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…

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April 28, 2022

The Philosophy of the Abortion Debate | 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 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…

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April 25, 2022

Why Do Dominicans Wear Harry Potter Capes? #AskAFriar (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 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…

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April 25, 2022

Welcome to Big Questions, Little Answers #AskAFriar (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 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…

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April 21, 2022

A Thomistic Account of Truth | Prof. Timothy Pawl

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April 8, 2022

How and How Not to Be Happy | Prof. J. Budziszewski

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April 4, 2022

How Do We Interpret the Genesis Creation Accounts? (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 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…

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March 31, 2022

Thomas and the New Atheists | Bishop Robert Barron

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March 28, 2022

Biblical Accounts of Creation With God's Wisdom (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 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…

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