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I'm begin with a thorough review of what we have covered in this series, and then conclude with a discussion on how we can accurately speak of God through analogical speech. Yet how could I omit the great conclusion of the great teacher of church teaching, St Thomas Aquinas! His story is the best conclusion I could think of!
We begin by recapping last week's episode on the journey through the early Church councils, leading to the great dogmatic definition at the council of Chalcedon. now we look at more contemporary questions about the identity of Jesus, namely Jansenism and Modernism.
The Church is summoned to stand up and defend her Spouse and Saviour! However, not having great clarity on the truth of who Jesus is, many got false ideas of the Lord. And so, God raised up saints to bring forth the splendor of Truth. In the early Church councils, we will slowly learn the importance of distinctions of who Jesus Christ is. He is the eternal Divine Logos in which his perfect Divinity and perfect humanity are united with no mixing or separation.
In this sixth part of the series, I look at who Jesus is as the Logos of God from all eternity. He is God and with God, and all things came to be through Him. We even bear the mark of this rational and ordered divine nature in our own human nature.
In this episode we look at the relationship of the eternal Father and of the eternal Son, particularly as it is seen and given witness to in Scripture, with an emphasis on the words of Jesus Christ about Himself and the Father.
In this podcast I look back into the Old Testament to see traces and hints of the most Holy Trinity, and then I draw on the more explicit teachings found in the New Testament. It wasn't until the year 200 that we have the word Trinity, but still we have the foundations of Trinitarian faith from the beginning!
God created the world and left his stamp in this world! That's a good thing, because it helps everyone come to God in some capacity. God is transcendent and above creation. He is rational, good, intimate, and community.
Who is God? God is the transcendent lover, condescending love, condescending transcendence. That is to say, the two big points of who God says he is is (1) the Almighty Other, and (2) the one who draws close to us.
I begin this series by considering what this revelation is? Who is doing this revealing? God chooses to reveal Himself freely for love, and simply for our good. As it is addressed to us by God Almighty, we have a real responsibility to the great Gift, which is Himself! We also humble ourselves to interpret it on accordance with the means God provides, through grace, through prayer, and through the Church.
Identity and authenticity as it relates to difficult memories and key relationships.
We talk about where we've come from and where we're going, our Divine origins and our Divine destiny.
Our identity in Christ: Hearers of the word
What does it mean to be authentic? How do I become authentic?
What are the layers of the identity? (1) The general human, (2) the historical, and (3) the open layers. All these have given limits, which will be important for our authenticity.
Introduction and definition of identity.
Natural Law is great!God's eternal law, that is, His wise plan of order and beauty for the universe, was placed into created beings by ordering them through tendency and inclination towards their proper end. The eternal law is placed into the nature of the being itself. The human being can participate in this rationally, and this is what we call the natural law.
We dive into this (after a problem with uploading).This is a look at the structure of the human person, and while it's longer than I anticipated, I believe it is super important. I use the 4 causes of Aritotle to get into this:The efficient cause: A human sperm and a human egg got our bodies started, but it needed an eternal influence to cause our immortal souls to start. Therefore, we must conclude that God infused the soul at the moment of conception.The material cause: That's our body!The formal cause: The soul is the form of the body, it organizes our material elements to be what it is: of human nature. We talked about the powers of the soul, the will, the intellect, the passions, etc.The final cause: That's next time!
I love these kinds of teaching! Seeing how the Old Testament conceals the New Testament, which reveals the full purpose of the Old, and then to see how it is lifted up in our experience of the Resurrected Lord in the liturgy and in our life! This is pretty simple, but I believe profound in its simplicity.
We dive into the topic today, recognizing that with a proper understanding of causality in different ways helps to prepare the way for any argument for God's existence.Newman's argument flows from conscience? Where does law come from? Where does that interior command to do the good and avoid evil come from? To whom are we accountable with the experience of responsibility? Well, it is most reasonable to propose there is a Lawgiver who commands us towards the good and holds us responsible. Him we call God.Thomas Aquinas has his five ways:1) Based on motion or change2) Based on efficient causality3) Based on contingency of all beings4) Based on our experience of perfections in the world5) Based on complex design in the universe
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