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Sept. 30, 2021

LIVESTREAM - The Dignity and Holiness of St. Joseph

LIVESTREAM - The Dignity and Holiness of St. Joseph A lecture by Prof. Gregory LaNave Subscribe to our channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheThomisticInstitute?sub_confirmation=1 Stay connected on social media: https://www.facebook.com/ThomisticInstitute https://www.instagram.com/thomisticinstitute https://twitter.com/thomisticInst Visit us at: https://thomisticinstitute.org/

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Sept. 30, 2021

Christ Crucified: Incarnational Beauty and the Spiritual Life | Fr. Reginald Lynch, 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 is the final lecture of a three-part lecture series by Fr. Reginald Lynch, O.P. delivered on June 16, 2021 as part of the Civitas Dei Summer Fellowship "Art, Meaning, &…

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Sept. 27, 2021

Does God Speak Through Signs? (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 reasonable to believe in God because of supernatural signs? Catholicism says yes: many signs confirm that God himself has revealed the mysteries of faith spelled out in the articles…

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Sept. 21, 2021

Faith and Evidence (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 sufficient evidence to believe in the mysteries of the Christian faith? What we believe is no lie, legend, or lunacy. Faith & Evidence (Aquinas 101) - Fr. James Brent,…

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Sept. 13, 2021

Preambles to Faith and Theology of Miracles (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 ever reasonable to believe in claims of divine revelation or appeals to divine authority? Preambles to Faith and Theology of Miracles (Aquinas 101) - Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.…

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Sept. 7, 2021

Are Miracles Possible According to Science? 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 Miracles are at the heart of the Christian faith. Miracles are also often at the heart of disputes between science and religion. Are Miracles Possible According to Science? (Aquinas 101) -…

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Aug. 23, 2021

Is It Reasonable to Believe in Miracles? (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 With respect to natural causes alone, miracles are improbable or even impossible. But with respect to God, miracles in general are probable given his intentions to work them. Those intentions are…

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Aug. 9, 2021

How to Solve Apparent Contradictions of Faith and Reason with Fr. James Brent, O.P. (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 As John Henry Newman said, ten thousand difficulties do not make for one doubt. One way to understand the Summa theologiae is to say that Thomas Aquinas provides us not only…

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Aug. 5, 2021

Household as Key to the Greater Common Good | Prof. John Cuddeback

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 To praise Job even more the discipline of his house is described next, which was free from those vices which wealth usually produces. For very often great wealth in fact produces…

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July 26, 2021

Seven Ways Faith and Reason Work Together (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 Faith does not frustrate reason. They are in harmony, which can be spelled out in seven principles. Harmony of Faith and Reason: Seven Principles (Aquinas 101) - Fr. James Brent For…

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July 22, 2021

The Sum Total of Our Disagreements: The Common Good and Liberal Governance | Prof. Joseph Capizzi

⭐️ 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. Capizzi delivered this lecture as part of the Thomistic Circles Conference titled "What is the Common Good?" (Feb. 26-28). The common good is both one (in the sense of indivisible)…

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July 15, 2021

Some Reflections on the Common Good in Modern Catholic Social Doctrine | Prof. Russell Hittinger

⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 Common good of a human society is a duplex ordo, a two-fold order. If you don’t get both, you’re going to make a mess of things. For human beings, social union—the…

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July 12, 2021

The Role of Belief in Science 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 Faith and reason are not opposites, but rather are two different ways of coming to know the truth. The Role of Belief in Science (Aquinas 101) For readings, podcasts, and more…

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July 8, 2021

How Common is Your Good? | 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 Commonness is not only the ontological foundation of family and political life, it constitutes the ladder on which the intellectual creature climbs knowingly and lovingly to God. For the sake of…

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June 28, 2021

What Is Faith? (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 Faith is central to human life. The scientific project couldn't function without it. What Is Faith? (Aquinas 101) - Fr. James Brent, O.P. For readings, podcasts, and more videos like this,…

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June 14, 2021

Quantum Mechanics and the Principle of Non-Contradiction (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 Quantum Mechanics is weird and counterintuitive, but it is not contradictory. Fr. Davenport breaks down the famous "Schroedingers' Cat" thought experiment and shows that a traditional understanding of truth and falsity…

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June 1, 2021

Does the Universe Have a Purpose? (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 Modern science assumes final causality in nature. Teleology in Modern Science (Aquinas 101) - Fr. Thomas Davenport, O.P. For readings, podcasts, and more videos like this, go to http://www.Aquinas101.com. While you’re…

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May 17, 2021

Final 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 The world in which we live is not at bottom a world of chance or chaos. Final Causality (Aquinas 101) - Fr. James Brent, O.P. For readings, podcasts, and more videos…

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May 13, 2021

The Contemplative Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary

The Contemplative Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary - Fr. James Brent, O.P. Subscribe to our channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheThomisticInstitute?sub_confirmation=1 Stay connected on social media: https://www.facebook.com/ThomisticInstitute https://www.instagram.com/thomisticinstitute https://twitter.com/thomisticInst Visit us at: https://thomisticinstitute.org/

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May 10, 2021

Science Needs Interpretation (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 Everyone agrees that the Bible requires interpretation, and so too does science. Science Needs Interpretation (Aquinas 101) - Fr. James Brent, O.P. For readings, podcasts, and more videos like this, go…

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May 3, 2021

Scientific Evidence Against Reductionism (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 The dream of complete reductionism is still just a dream. Scientific Evidence Against Reductionism (Aquinas 101) - Fr. Thomas Davenport, O.P. For readings, podcasts, and more videos like this, go to…

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April 29, 2021

St. Thomas Aquinas on the Act of Faith - Prof. Reinhard Huetter

St. Thomas Aquinas on the Act of Faith - Prof. Reinhard Huetter Subscribe to our channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheThomisticInstitute?sub_confirmation=1 Stay connected on social media: https://www.facebook.com/ThomisticInstitute https://www.instagram.com/thomisticinstitute https://twitter.com/thomisticInst Visit us at: https://thomisticinstitute.org/

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April 26, 2021

Substantial Form (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 Science does not deny substantial form, but rather welcomes it. Substantial Form (Aquinas 101) - Fr. James Brent, O.P. For readings, podcasts, and more videos like this, go to http://www.Aquinas101.com. While…

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April 20, 2021

Against Physicalist Reductionism (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 about the position that the ultimate explanation of everything is not the Divine Mind, but simply material things, space, time, various forces, and brute factual laws? Is that a reasonable…

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