137: Becoming God (Deification/Theosis), with Fr. James Brent O.P.
Pints With Aquinas
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Is There No Such Thing as Free Will?
There's no such thing as free will or free agency, if that's what reality is. Yet punishment presupposes some kind of responsibility for what we do. If it's truly i who do it, it can't be simply my chemical parts that are doing it. So leads to a sort of fatalism, doesn't it? Totally? Ah, ye. There's more going on when we put people in prison than simply conditioning.Ah, there's some kind of answerability or responsibility for what they they do. Really, what's at stake is whether there are human beings as we think of them. We think of ourselves and each other as answerable for our actions. And if
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