with John DeRosa
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 the traditional Thomist school? Dr. Taylor Patrick O’Neill joins us to critically examine some...
Summary What does it mean to believe and why is it reasonable? How can we present the fundamentals of the faith to Catholic high school students? Why follow Jesus? How can we make natural law ethics compelling? Michael Gormley joins us to discuss some exciting new work he’s...
Summary Who is the atheist who read and reviewed my book? What did he like about it? What criticisms did he have of the book? What keeps him an atheist? I sit down with Dana Harper to discuss several topics related to my book One Less God Than...
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 of David Hume”? How does Fr. Garrigou view apologetics as “directed by faith”? Dr....
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. Joining me is Dr. James Merrick to discuss the importance of this work and...
Summary What place to animals have in God’s creation? Might some animals be redeemed? Why have some theologians moved beyond the traditional Thomistic framework? Can these newer answers help with the problem of evil and suffering? Fr. Christopher Steck S.J. joins the podcast to discuss these questions and...
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 burning to death in a forest fire, how might you respond in 60 seconds...
Summary What is “Catholic faith” and why is it valuable? How can Catholics respond to the objection that traditional accounts of faith are not consistent with faith being valuable? How might Protestant Christians respond? Is there a way to argue faith is intrinsically valuable on the Catholic view?...
Summary What is an abductive argument as opposed to an inductive one? How can one make an abductive cosmological argument for the existence of God? Does this argument lead us to believe the cause of the universe is personal? How would the proponent of this argument respond to...
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 belief? Did Mother Theresa have faith throughout her life? Fr. James Brent O.P. joins...
