Aquinas 101 - Course 3: God and Creation
The Thomistic Institute
This is the course listening for Aquinas 101 - Course 3: God and Creation--the third of six courses that together make up the Aquinas 101 Course. Each podcast episode accompanies a course video and course reading.
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Episodes
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Jan 8, 2020 • 42min
S1E37 - The Triune God - The Central Mystery of the Christian Faith - Part Two | Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P.
Course Listening for Lesson 37 - "The Persons of the Trinity"
Jan 6, 2020 • 36min
S1E36 - The Triune God - The Central Mystery of the Christian Faith - Part One | Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P.
Course Listening for Lesson 36 - "The Triune God"
Jan 1, 2020 • 39min
S1E35 - Predestination | Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.
Course Listening for Lesson 35 - "Predestination"
56 snips
Dec 30, 2019 • 41min
S1E34 - The Soul of Freedom | Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.
What does it mean to be free: choosing anything at all, or becoming able to choose the good with joy? A lively tour of Aquinas and Aristotle explores human nature, body and soul, virtue, and the modern ideal of self-rule, with detours through The Little Mermaid, fantasy football, and an improvised zip-tie fix.
47 snips
Dec 25, 2019 • 39min
S1E33 - Understanding Divine Providence | Fr. James Brent, O.P.
From artists and construction foremen to insects keeping a city from drowning in sludge, this talk explores how Aquinas makes sense of divine providence. It also turns to nature’s intricate order, the purpose of creation, and the possibility of glimpsing God through the world around us.
Dec 23, 2019 • 40min
S1E32 - The Reasons of the Heart | Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.
Course Listening for Lesson 32 - "God's Will"
37 snips
Dec 18, 2019 • 42min
S1E31 - Is God a Person? | Prof. Michael Gorman
Can God be a person without thinking and feeling as humans do? Explore Aquinas’s ideas about divine intelligence, creation, potentiality, and the limits of language. Along the way, discover why Scripture speaks of God in familiar terms, and why technical precision may not always bring people closer to understanding or love.
41 snips
Dec 16, 2019 • 41min
S1E30 - The Names of God | Fr. James Brent, O.P.
What does it mean to call God good, wise, or healthy? Fr. James Brent explores Aquinas’s surprising account of how words apply to God and creatures, using dogs, food, and even urine to unpack analogy. The conversation also examines why speaking about God requires affirming familiar qualities, then purifying them of creaturely limits.
59 snips
Dec 11, 2019 • 41min
S1E29 - Divine Unity and Simplicity | Prof. Michael Gorman
What does it mean to say God is utterly simple, and how can that fit with the Trinity and the Incarnation? The discussion explores Aquinas’s arguments for divine unity, infinity, and simplicity, then turns to a puzzle about whether God’s will makes creation necessary. It also asks why ordinary language struggles to describe a God whose attributes are one.
42 snips
Dec 2, 2019 • 40min
S1E28 - The Existence of God | Fr. James Brent, O.P.
Explore Aquinas’s case for God through the puzzle of why contingent things exist at all. The discussion distinguishes causes that bring things into being from causes that sustain their existence, then follows the argument toward a necessary source of being and its connection to biblical language.
