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What is predestination? – Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

Fr. Dominic Legge explains predestination as a profoundly hopeful Catholic doctrine rooted in God’s eternal, loving plan to give grace and lead rational creatures freely to the supernatural end of the beatific vision, drawing especially on Saint Thomas Aquinas and Saint Augustine ...  عرض المزيد

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What is predestination? – Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

Fr. Dominic Legge explains predestination as a profoundly hopeful Catholic doctrine rooted in God’s eternal, loving plan to give grace and lead rational creatures freely to the supernatural end of the beatific vision, drawing especially on Saint Thomas Aquinas and Saint Augustine ...  عرض المزيد

Does Nature Make Laws? – Prof. Raymond Hain

Prof. Raymond Hain examines whether nature “makes” laws by exploring classical and contemporary accounts of natural law, arguing that human moral norms arise from our rational participation in the ordered structure of life and the universe as understood in both philosophy and Cat ...  عرض المزيد

'The greatest of all God's works': Justification in Catholic Theology – Prof. Matthew Thomas

Prof. Matthew Thomas explains why justification—God’s transformative act of making sinners righteous in Christ by grace through faith and incorporation into the Church—is, for Aquinas, greater even than creation, and explores how Catholic teaching on faith, works, and grace can a ...  عرض المزيد

Can Divine Providence Be Known Through Natural Reason? The Classics' Response – Prof. Carlos A. Casanova

Prof. Carlos A. Casanova argues that a properly understood Aristotelian–Platonic metaphysics of form, final causality, and nature allows human reason, without biblical revelation, to infer a governing divine intellect that orders the cosmos and human history in a providential way ...  عرض المزيد

Living Mary's Mediation through De Montfort’s 'Total Consecration' – Fr. John Langlois, O.P.

Fr. John Langlois presents Saint Louis de Montfort’s Marian spirituality of “total consecration” as the surest, easiest, and most secure way to live Mary’s maternal mediation and grow in intimate union with Jesus by entrusting one’s whole life to her.This lecture was given on Dec ...  عرض المزيد