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Summary Who was Fr. Garrrigou-Lagrange and how did this set of essays come about? What is the Thomist critique of Descartes’ Cogito? What does Fr. Garrigou argue in an essay on the “Empiricist Skepticism...
Summary If you want to take a deep dive into Catholic Dogmatic theology, Fr. Mauro Gagliardi has written an incredible new work titled Truth is a Synthesis: Catholic Dogmatic Theology that does just that....
Summary What problems of evil have been proposed that focus on animal suffering? How might a Thomistic theist respond to these arguments? If faced with the apparently gratuitous suffering of a fawn trapped and...
Summary What is ‘faith’ according to St. Thomas Aquinas? What makes it rational to have faith? What illustrations might we use to think about faith as an act of personal trust? Does faith include...
Summary What is meant by ‘divine simplicity’ in Thomas Aquinas and those before him? How do we come to affirm the doctrine of divine simplicity? Why is that a different process than that by...
Summary What is the modal collapse objection and how can classical theists answer it? Can the absolutely simple God act for reasons and act intentionally? What is ‘existential inertia’ and what theistic ideas does...
Summary How should classical theists think about divine knowledge? How can God have knowledge of diverse subjects if he is absolutely simple? Doesn’t God’s knowledge change when changes occur in the world? Wouldn’t God...
Summary What is the doctrine of the Incarnation? How does Aquinas discuss the doctrine? How is the Incarnation compatible with classical theist doctrines of simplicity, immutability, and impassability? Dr. Michael Gorman joins the podcast...
Is divine simplicity a philosophical or revealed doctrine? How should we understand question 3 of the Summa? Why think God is not composed of matter and form or essence and existence? What do classical theists mean when they say God is not in a genus? How does real essentialism differ from modal essentialism? Dr. Gaven Kerr joins the show to tackle these topics and more.
Summary How did Plotinus argue for absolute divine simplicity? What is Plato’s criterion? Why must the fundamental being be absolutely simple and not just somewhat simple or relatively simple? How does Phil Corkum’s analysis...
