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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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March 24, 2022

Prayer and the Intellectual Life | Prof. Joshua Revelle

⭐️ 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…

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March 21, 2022

Biblical Accounts of Creation Through God's Power (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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March 17, 2022

Is Free Will an Illusion? The Metaphysics and Psychology of Choice | 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 "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…

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March 14, 2022

Does Science Contradict the Bible? (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 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…

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March 10, 2022

Friendship: Classical, Medieval, Modern | Prof. Jennifer Frey

⭐️ 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…

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March 7, 2022

How Did Life on Earth REALLY Begin? w/ Prof. Karin Öberg (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 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?…

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March 3, 2022

Aquinas and Religious Pluralism: How to Engage without Sacrificing Truth | Prof. Thomas Hibbs

⭐️ 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…

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Feb. 24, 2022

Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and the Project of Literature | Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel, 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 "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…

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Feb. 21, 2022

How God Can Guide Random Events & Free Choices (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 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…

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Feb. 17, 2022

Thomists at War: Dante, Aquinas, and the Dominicans | Dr. George Corbett

⭐️ 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,…

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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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