Is God Really Related to Creatures?
Introduction Many people are disturbed and confused to find out that a Christian theologian as eminent as St. Thomas Aquinas taught that God is not really related to creatures. When we dig into the...
Category: Classical theism
Ep. #264 – The Book of Wisdom w/ Dr. Mark Giszczak
Summary What is the biblical book of Wisdom all about? Who wrote it? Is? Why is this an important book for philosophically interested Catholic Christians? Why is wisdom spoken about as female in various...
Ep. #263 – The Catholic View of Salvation w/ Dr. Michael Dauphinais
Summary What is salvation? What is justification? Where should we start in explaining the Catholic viewpoint on these topics to others? How does the Catholic view of justification differ from other major Protestant conceptions?...
Ep. #262 – Divine Names; Is God truly Creator and Lord? w/ Ryan M. Hurd
Summary Why bother to make technical distinctions in how we speak about God? How does St. Thomas Aquinas categorize the ways of speaking about God? Is it true that according to Aquinas, God is...
Ep. #261 – An Important Catholic Intellectual You’ve Never Heard Of w/ Dr. Joseph Stuart
Summary Who was Christopher Dawson? What made him such an important Catholic intellectual in the 20th century? What was the main focus of his work? How is his work relevant for those doing apologetics?...
Ep. #260 – Natural Theology, Apologetics, and the Rationality of Faith w/ Fr. Thomas Joseph White O.P.
Summary Is atheism a simpler theory than theism? What are the strongest arguments for God’s existence? Is apologetics a hopeless enterprise because motivated reasoning and confirmation bias are inherently involved? Where does the Incarnation...
Ep. #259 – The Reliability of the Old Testament w/ Dr. John Bergsma (w/ Live Q & A)
Summary Many critics say the Old Testament is unreliable because it contains (i) empirical claims that have been scientifically falsified, (ii) historical claims that are entirely unsubstantiated, (iii) and moral claims that are eminently...
Ep. #258 – Divine Simplicity, Ultimate Explanation, and Revealed theology w/ Dr. Tomaszewski (plus Live Q & A)
Summary What is the doctrine of divine simplicity? How does it relate to reality having an ultimate explanation? Is it relevant for revealed theology? What about the intentional collapse objection? Dr. Christopher Tomaszewski joins...
Ep. #257 – Expert Round Table on the Pentateuch with Dr. Mastnjak, Dr. Morrow, and Dr. Schmiedicke
Summary What are the most important theological themes of the Pentateuch? Does the Pentateuch teach philosophical monotheism or rather some form of henotheism? Who wrote the Pentateuch? What are the most important lines of...
Ep. #255 – Revisiting Divine Hiddenness w/ Dr. Gavin Ortlund
Summary What is the problem of divine hiddenness? Is God a bad parent who doesn’t show his presence to his children? How can Christian theists respond to skeptics who press arguments from hiddenness? Dr. Gavin...
