BONUS|A Brief Review of the Conversation with Mullins
I play several clips of my conversation with Dr. Ryan Mullins and respond with some brief commentary.
Category: Thomism
Ep. #135 – A Conversation with Dr. Ryan Mullins on DDS & Modal Collapse
What are models of God? What is neo-classical theism as opposed to classical theism? How should we think about the doctrine of divine simplicity? What is meant by ‘modal collapse’? How might classical theists answer modal collapse objections? Dr. Ryan Mullins joins the show to discuss some of his thoughts on these questions and more.
Ep. #134 – A Catholic Scientist Defends God’s Existence w/ Dr. Verschuuren
Summary How did a geneticist get so interested in writing about faith and philosophy? Why think God exists? What does science say about the matter? Why think there is a personal first cause? How...
BONUS|Simplicity, Triune Action, & Appropriation w/ David Moser
Summary What did Augustine and Aquinas teach about the Triune action of God? What is meant by the ‘indivisible operations axiom’? How do Augustine and Aquinas employ the idea of ‘appropriation’? What implications does...
BONUS|Slogans, PSR, Evil, & Predestination (Office hours) w/ Pat Flynn
Summary What some popular atheist slogans and how can they be answered? What dilemma does the atheist face regarding the PSR and problem of evil? How big is the tent in Catholicism when it...
BONUS | Maritain, Premotion, & Predestination w/ Dr. Taylor O’Neill
Summary Who was Jacques Maritain and why is he an important figure in Thomism? What did he teach on topics related to predestination? How did he understand God’s ‘antecedent’ and ‘consequent’ wills differently than...
Ep. #128 – Essays by Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange w/ Dr. Minerd
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...
BONUS | A New Work of Catholic Dogmatic Theology w/ Dr. Merrick
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....
Ep. #126 – A Response to Animal Suffering w/ Dr. Kyle Keltz
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...
Ep. #124 – Faith, Rationality, and Belief in Aquinas w/ Fr. James Brent OP
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...
