⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 We are always free to choose among options. Some options are better than others. All of the powers of the soul are directed toward achieving some good. Ultimately, we are made…
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🎥, Keep the Aquinas 101 cameras rolling! Donate $5 today: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 The soul makes the heart not only to be, but to beat. Soul makes the eyes not only to be, but to see. The soul is the organizational pattern of all parts, and all the parts of all 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 art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, who didst rise in the morning? How art thou fallen to the earth, that didst wound the nations?” (Isaiah 14:12) Have you ever…
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⭐️ 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 Lord has made all things for Himself.” (Proverbs 16:4) Creation is not God igniting the first spark of physical things or changing or moving things from one state to another.…
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⭐️ 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's the Problem With Natural Rights? A lecture by Nigel Biggar (Oxford University) delivered at the conference "What Are Natural Rights?" on April 1, 2017 in New York City. Subscribe to…
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⭐️ 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 Holy Trinity is a mystery in the strict sense—is the mystery of God in Himself. Our knowledge of this mystery depends exclusively on God's revelation and above all, on 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 [I believe] in the Holy Ghost, the Lord and Giver of life, Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, Who, together with the Father and the Son, is adored and…
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⭐️ 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 holds that creation is characterized by order, that all things come forth from God according to an ordered plan and all things are ordered back to God as their ultimate…
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⭐️ 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 then can we speak of the divine names? How can we do this if the Transcendent surpasses all discourse and all knowledge, if it abides beyond the reach of mind…
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⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 By habit, whether virtue or vice, man sows the seeds of his destiny, determining in choice what he is and what he is to become. In order to get better 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 St. Thomas Aquinas refers to the human person as the horizon of creation—the meeting of heaven and earth. We are composite beings—embodied souls—with a complex makeup. In Aristotle and St. Thomas’s…
⭐️ Donate $5 to help keep these videos FREE for everyone! Pay it forward for the next viewer: https://go.thomisticinstitute.org/donate-youtube-a101 “Whether for good or evil, each man lives by his love.” -St. Augustine of Hippo What is the good? For St. Thomas Aquinas, this question is absolutely central. He begins by…