Recently stumbled upon this channel, I really like the content. Thanks.

I never had a great appreciation for St Thomas growing up. He’s just so over my head 🤯 But this episode really got me to realize how balanced and wise his approach was. So excited to learn more 😃🌟

Very excited that this episode is a two-parter! I haven't read any biography of Aquinas other than the one by Chesterton, but I do at least know of two others. There's Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait by Denys Turner, which seems like it's meant to be accessible, and Saint Thomas Aquinas, Vol. I: The Person and His Work by Jean-Pierre Torrell, which appears to be the more academic. Biographies of him seem pretty hard to come by, as most books focus on his thought rather than his life.

I was recently wondering about the church's perspective on metaphysics, and what we were required to believe. I'm glad you answered it in this episode! Looking forward to part 2!

Very interesting episode. It sounds like an example (there are many) where the definition of a word changes or evolves over time. It seems that in St. Thomas's time, occult meant unknown or mysterious, not necessarily dark or evil as it is used today. Looking forward to the next episode.

Hi Jimmy, perhaps a slight correction of what you say around minute 37: It was not Newton who came up with the concept of gravity, although it's many times presented like that. Already the Cartesians used gravity and claimed the same forces act in the super- and sublunary world, although they explained them in terms of vortices. In the Cartesian system, gravity was mechanical (vortices) and in the Newtonian one mechanical (action at a distance), but the gravitational explanation was there before Newton. Of course, Newton then provided the mathematics for gravity. It was Newton's biographers/hagiographers (Stukeley, Pemberton) who made Newton seem unique. (You'll find this in John Henry, A Short History of Scientific Thought, ch. 13)

ah distinctions... kewl. nuance is underrated

Thank you 😊

Jimmy i was wondering about lucid dreams for a while, can you answer me on this doubt I have? Are induced lucid dreams a sinful practice?

I’m sure Mr. Akin has already discussed The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and the First Vision of Joseph Smith. Also Native American Spirituality, Deep State, Vatican Conspiracies (“Secret Combinations”), The Great Apostasy, Plural Marriage, Baptism for the Dead 💀. Freemasonry is kind of my final frontier as far as all the sects present within my family.

Dope!

Jimmy Akin, the reincarnation of Thomas Aquinas! Oh wait, you already did an episode on that.... My bad. :)

@belleepoque3631

4 жыл бұрын

Wait what?

Jimmy, would the texts used to canonize him have the information you are seeking? Is this a Vatican archive question?

I don't know if y'all would be interested in it, but one thing I'd LOVE to hear something about is just who in the heck the Sabians are that the Koran refers to. There are some groups in the Middle East that claim they are, well, they, and I am having difficulty finding information about them. The few sources I can find disagree with each other.

exoteric/esoteric. Can we reveal the Vatican library contents? I just heard Rabbi Friedman say that there is some cool stuff in there;

St. Thomas Aquinas thinks that each angel is it's own species and Jimmy Akin differs... this is my kinda conversation!ya

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Is Christianity considered part of the occult itself? I'm asking as the podcast starts? Looking at the definition of occult it doesn't say good or evil.

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4 жыл бұрын

In the medieval sense, probably. In the modern sense, probably not.