Ep. #250 – Principles of Catholic Epistemology w/ Fr. James Brent O.P. (with Live Q & A)

Summary

What is epistemology? What are some ideas to keep in mind if we are to have a good epistemology? How can we help raise our children to have a good Catholic epistemology? What were Fr. Bernard Lonergan’s thoughts on a general method of getting to the truth? We discuss these topics and take interesting Q and A from the live audience.

Guest Bio

Fr. James Dominic Brent, O.P. was born and raised in Michigan. He pursued his undergraduate and graduate studies in Philosophy and completed his doctorate in Philosophy at Saint Louis University on the epistemic status of Christian beliefs according to Saint Thomas Aquinas. He has articles in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on Natural Theology, in the Oxford Handbook of Thomas Aquinas on “God’s Knowledge and Will”, and an article forthcoming on “Thomas Aquinas” in the Oxford Handbook of the Epistemology of Theology.

He earned his STL from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, and was ordained a priest in the same year. He taught in the School of Philosophy at The Catholic University of America from 2010- 2014 and spent the year of 2014-2015 doing full-time itinerant preaching on college campuses across the United States. Fr. James Brent now teaches philosophy at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies.

Resources

The Aquinas101 Learning Platform

The Father’s House: Discovering Our Home in the Trinity by Fr. James Brent O.P.

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