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Milkshakes, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Efficient Causality #AskAFriar (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 does St. Thomas Aquinas say about efficient causality, and what are the kinds of efficient causes? How does the relationship between a being’s existence and its environment work in the…
The Passions Of The Soul | Prof. Michael Gorman
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The Powers Of The Soul | Fr. James Brent, O.P.
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Do We Really Inherit Original Sin from Adam and Eve? (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 Do we really inherit original sin from Adam and Eve? In this episode of Aquinas 101: Science and Faith, join Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., a Dominican friar from the Province of…
Is Belief in God Rational? | 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 "What I want to emphasize in this talk is how Aquinas' conception of rational theological belief includes both much less than and much more than strictly demonstrative proofs or philosophical argumentation.…
The Natural Law, Christian salvation and more! #AskAFriar (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 does the Natural Law have to do with Christian salvation? Where does Aquinas affirm the existence of Prime Matter? Do evil people have evil souls? Big questions like these have…
What Was Life Like in the Garden of Eden? On Original Justice (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 Was Life Like in the Garden of Eden? Why was it fitting for God to create human beings in a state of original justice, or with an original grace? In…
Did Adam and Eve Really Exist? (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 Did Adam and Eve really exist? In this episode of Aquinas 101: Science and Faith, Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P. examines how we can reconcile Genesis with scientific theories of human history.…
How the Prime Mover Argument Works #AskAFriar (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 could an eternal universe have a prime mover? What can Aristotle's Prime Mover argument and St. Thomas’s famous Five Ways tell us about motion and time? Big questions like these…
What does Genesis tell us about Adam and Eve? (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 does Genesis tell us about Adam and Eve? Is this text meant to transmit to us a scientific or precise historical account of creation or of human origins? In this…
Finding Consolation in the Book of Revelation | Prof. Nina Heereman
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Evolution and the Creation of Man (Aquinas 101)
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Why You Can't Reverse Engineer Human Beings: The Metaphysics of the Soul | Prof. Joshua Hochschild
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Where Does Life Come From? Evolution and God's Creation (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 Where does life come from? Is it caused by God? Or does it result from a vast and complex interaction of causes within the world? Could the answer be: both? In…
The Philosophy of the Abortion Debate | Prof. Angela Knobel
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Why Do Dominicans Wear Harry Potter Capes? #AskAFriar (Aquinas 101)
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Welcome to Big Questions, Little Answers #AskAFriar (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 Big questions have been popping up in the comment boxes of our Aquinas 101 videos since the start of our very first season. In this new video series with Fr. Ambrose…
A Thomistic Account of Truth | Prof. Timothy Pawl
⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 "Truth is not something to be wary of. All truth, any truth, if it is, in fact, truth, will be in conformity with your cherished views…provided they are true. Aquinas writes:…