Aquinas and Religious Pluralism: How to Engage without Sacrificing Truth | Prof. Thomas Hibbs
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[In the disputed question model], Aquinas is attempting - vicariously, because all these people are not sitting in the Agora with him - to bring various voices into the conversation. And he is always careful to show where each voice grasps the truth, and where it doesn't.
The best way to engage with a rival position is not just to refute it, but to show what is true in it, and then, from the view that results out of that, to give an account of where and why it went wrong. That is the most compelling argument for Aristotle and for Aquinas." -Prof. Thomas Hibbs
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0:00 Introduction
1:45 Situation of the 13th Century
11:40 Modern Situation
18:15 Rational Disagreement as Instructive
20:41 Conversion Stories & St. Augustine
23:27 Aquinas' Disputed Question Model
29:22 Dr. Hibbs' Background
31:28 Aquinas does, occasionally, get worked up.
32:41 Finding Common Ground & Aquinas on Heresy
34:55 Conclusion - Sts. Thomas Aquinas and John Henry Newman
39:01 Q&A
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This lecture was given on December 7, 2021 at George Mason University.
About the speaker:
Thomas Hibbs is currently Distinguished Professor of Ethics & Culture and Dean of the Honors College at Baylor University. He is the author of books including Virtue's Splendor: Wisdom, Prudence, and the Human Good and Shows About Nothing, one of two books of his about film. He has nearly completed a book on Pascal, tentatively entitled Divine Irony and is at work on a book on Nihilism, Beauty, and God, an application of Jacques Maritain’s aesthetic theory to the arts of poetry and painting in the 20th century. He also has written on film, culture, books and higher education in publications including Books and Culture, Christianity Today, First Things, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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If this's so, then the ones who want the faith to die, and God to cease to exist, are *right* because, precisely because and only because they rightly reject any god who'd or whose followers would move against any innocent man for denouncing the worship of a god who's so tyrannical by nature as the one the church worshipped in the days of the earlier event... indeed, it is humble and thus right to leave God completely out of the picture, due only to His greatness.
Funny thing to say especially coming as it you from you, who is just an odd jumble of DNA replication errors
@@patricksee10 Same back at you, for if I am a collection of DNA errors, so is everyone else- and that's in no way dismissive of anyone at all; but merely a comment on the human condition at that.
@@chissstardestroyer why you care if you are a pointless expenditure of energy?
The point is you aren’t quantum fluctuations but it you ask for eternal separation from everyone and everything good, you will be granted it
@@patricksee10 One must be forever separated from everything eternal in order for the prayer "Dust to dust..." to be remotely true; that means for it to be remotely true it must be that this life's all we can possibly hope for, and that's it... but in no way can we have anything to do with anything eternal, for all that is eternal is eternally evil in and of itself.
@@chissstardestroyer that doesn’t follow at all. You were created for good not evil. The fact that you can right or wrong is of the highest significance. You did not give your self those abilities, they are given to you. You cannot but choose
In short, because philosophy is the lesser of the two, it is the more humble, therefore we have to do completely away with all theology, as theology borders on the magical it is intrinsically forbidden, as is all religion because such things border on the magical by nature... hence it is always right and good to throw out any reference to god, or to the saints, and all previous theological teachers at that- to Hell with the lot of those scum for being above the common man's lowest common denominator, and thus being proud enough to seek out God to begin with, or even to associate with the vermin of eternity; as literally all beings in eternity are worthless vermin and seek to destroy man's natural virtue, bar none!
If someone is not placed by God to sufficient rank to argue or defend Him, then it is userping a place that is not the man's to do so, and if the person *is* appointed by God, nobody will pay heed to him, so either way: God loses precisely *because* of His place at the greatest level of being.
I say this humbly as a man who would have once sympathized with the sense of conviction you hold: You are merely at the tip of the iceberg (as you yourself have acknowledged to be but a speck in creation), but if you allow yourself to be continually challenged and remain steadfast in your open minded curiosity, God himself will see to it that you come to understand his desire to be in relationship with you. I’m afraid I cannot help you more knowing that the best way forward would be to engage in person. Peace be with you, Chris, destroyer of stars
@@Obi-Juan124 First of all, that last line would be attributing too much power to me- as any form of power always is an affront to morality- and that's part of the reason why man's lowly status is what teaches man to hate God due solely to His majestic status... as it always should and always will.
@@chissstardestroyer I know what you mean, but perhaps I didn’t make my point clear enough. You will not come to know God through your own capabilities but rather through the grace God gives to you. If God were aloof from humanity I would agree with you, but the contrary is true. A relationship demands that both parties participate, and that is where the beauty of our faith lies. God chooses to make himself known to you, and you will know him not because of our mediocre abilities to reason, but because of his love to be in your life.
@@Obi-Juan124 Again, if one relies on the aid of a spirit, then one is involved in the occult, and that's an absolute no-no, completely forbidden, and flat-out prohibited, as is any contact at all with any spirit to begin with- for that too is the occult, and is thus prohibited forever.
*All* we can possibly rely on is our own natural functions, anything outside of us is relying on the occult, which's absolutely forbidden, and should be, for all eternity.
God due to His throne is completely distant from humanity *at man's safest*, due to His power, He is a definite hazard to man's survival in any reality at all.
@@chissstardestroyer I see where you are coming from, but there is very little to support your speculation other than relativistic reasoning. I would suggest further inquiry. Perhaps start with The Road Less Taken, which is not a Christian book, but nonetheless helped me understand the objectivity of love.