⭐️ 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…
⭐️ 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…
⭐️ 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…
⭐️ 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…
⭐️ 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…
⭐️ 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…
⭐️ 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…
⭐️ 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…
⭐️ 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…
⭐️ 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…
⭐️ 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.,…
⭐️ 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…
⭐️ 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…
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…