This is the best theology channel on KZread for sure. Congratulations for your dedication and wisdom Dr. Reeves. Greetings from Colombia and God bless you.

THANKS FOR THIS PIECE IT REALLY HELP ME UNDERSTAND ST. THOMAS AQUINAS PHILOSOPHY

Thank you so much for this lecture, I knew absolutely nothing about Aquinas, and now I want to learn as much about him as possible.

So glad to have you back! Superb job once again. Thanks.

I love your lectures. Thank you

Thank you for these lectures Dr. Reeves. I'm enjoying them! I teach Church history and historical Theology at my home church on our radio station and your lectures have been a huge help for me. Quick question - are there any good biographies of Aquinas that you would recommend? I would like to read more about him and really explore his life, Theology, and legacy. Thank you and cheers!

@RyanReevesM

8 жыл бұрын

+Scott Matson // Hey Scott. Cool! I guess with all this audio and video editing I've been doing I should be jealous at your ability to teach live on the radio. :) The Denys Turner biography is great. Published not that long ago with Yale, and there is a Kindle version.

@crusaderking5387

8 жыл бұрын

+Scott Matson Try G. K. Chesterton's. I found id fascinating.

@CalcioEUnico

8 жыл бұрын

+Ryan Reeves Mr.Reeves, do you know some good study or work or book which explains influences of St.Augustine on Thomas Aquinas in terms of theology and philosophy? Thanks.

@RyanReevesM

8 жыл бұрын

+CalcioEUnico // I don't know of any single work on it personally, but then Aquinas is not my main area of research. The trouble here is finding 1) a scholar in both and 2) they write a book on it. But there may be something on this; I just haven't seen it.

Recommendable!

Awesome

Thanks, Dr Reeves. It wonderful to fully appreciate the concept of Grace perfects Nature. Also in the light of how the 7 virtues are being categorised as natural virtues and supernatural virtues and those supernatural virtues are revealed. By the way, are you a catholic?

@RyanReevesM

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you liked the video! I am not a Catholic myself, though.

Aquinas seems to be an early discoverer of what the Germans call "Schadenfreude" -- delight in the suffering of others: "Wherefore in order that the happiness of the saved [in heaven] may be more delightful to them and that they may render more copious thanks to God for it, they are allowed to see perfectly the sufferings of the damned." Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Question 94, Article 1

@annettebejany5969

7 жыл бұрын

Interesting point. But, excuse my presumption, can I detect a bit of your own schadenfreude in dismissing the greatness of his work and exposing him to ridicule for not being perfect? He was a human being after all.

Another typo, "That which we already "where," when you said, "That which we already were." About 4 minutes in.

@RyanReevesM

7 жыл бұрын

Yep...happens when the audio is recorded live with only minimal notes. Me no always speak so gud. :)

@RyanReevesM

7 жыл бұрын

Also quite a few of these were recorded at like 3am. I was sleepy. :)

@christinao940

7 жыл бұрын

I've really been enjoying your lectures, and have recommended them to several friends. : )

@christinao940

7 жыл бұрын

Ryan Reeves Well that's when I usually listen, so that works out neatly.

Thanks for the clear lecture! In a way, Thomas Aquinas manages to surpass Christian culture when he talks about the Christian concept of Love. It strongly resembles what you can find in other faiths, particularly Buddhism. As that story goes, Buddha attained enlightenment, and at that point he could have left this world behind, never to return. Yet out of his boundless, self-sacrificial Love for this world, he came back to share his Love (in the shape of his presence and his teachings) with those around him. Yet, Aquinas has always had a negative ring to his name in my mind, ever since I heard or read of his statement alleging that "women have no soul". You don't mention this, could you place it in context? On the one hand, I could imagine he said it half in jest looking back on what his brothers did to him (the prostitutes you mentioned in the first part), although I'd personally blame those brothers, not the prostitutes. But, connected to his great name, these words did, from what I've understood, get a life of their own, stimulating the oppression and witch hunts that would plague Europe (and even the US) from the end of the Middle Ages until, in some places, the 19th Century.

@JS-lo8hr

7 жыл бұрын

us humans, and our understanding of our world is very much beholden to the time we come from. but great people always communicate ideas that transcend time and location. to me this is one earthly representation of god

Sounds to me like T(h)omas was as much philosopher as theologian.

Just remember that Aquinas believed and taught that it's grace infused while Paul taught it's righteousness imputed by repentance and faith. The Roman Catholic church has taken Aquinas's theology of grace infused and applied it to their doctrines and practices especially through the mass. Make sure you understand the difference. Righteousness imputed is a one time occurrence and grace infused is an non biblical ongoing process.

@RyanReevesM

8 жыл бұрын

+christopher laing // Nothing in this lecture is touching on Aquinas or Protestant teachings on justification. I'm not sure why the concern here. There are other videos that touch on these doctrines, so there is little need to make everything about justification.

@christopherlaing8666

8 жыл бұрын

Why the concern, really? If you do not possess the righteousness of HaMashiach by faith alone ... there is no salvation!!! Grace is the unmerited favor of Yahwah God giving us something that we don't deserve and this being His sending of His only begotten Son who took our sins upon Himself and paid the penalty for them to the fullness once forever thereby securing our ability to be reconciled to Yahuwah God through repentance and faith and not by our works as spoken of in Ephesians 2:8-9.. Righteousness is imputed ( a legal term ) to the repentant sinner when they repentant and put they faith and trust ALONE in the finished work of redemption by HaMashiach on Calvary's cross. This is what Roman's 6 is teaching. Grace infused is what traps people in religions such as Roman Catholicism, Islam etc and is predicated upon ones own works and efforts to maintain his standing before Yahuwah God and binds them to a system of works that one never knows whether they have done enough to get into heaven. This tramples under foot, the once forever, death and shed blood of Yahushua HaMashiach as spoken of in Hebrews 10:29 where it also states in verses 10-14 that His sacrifice was a one time sacrifice never to be repeated sacrifice for sins while a " priest " offers the same sacrifice daily which can never take away sins to begin with. If you don't understand biblical salvation then how is it you can supposedly preach the Gospel or teach any truths related to it?

@JS-lo8hr

7 жыл бұрын

if salvation comes from faith alone, why did jesus(the fact you cant call him jesus tells us where youre coming from) bother to do the various miracles referenced in the gospels?

Your lectures a quite informative, but I think you repeat yourself too much.

@RyanReevesM

5 жыл бұрын

Sometimes the teacher in me feels the need to repeat things for students to get it. Sometimes the teacher in me feels the need to repeat things for students to get it.

@docemeveritatum8550

5 жыл бұрын

Not for nothing, but I don't get that from the videos. Maybe you are more advanced and that is an issue to you.