Catholic Thinkers

Christology by Michael Dauphinais: 3. St. Paul's Hymns of Christ

Recorded in 2003, This course addresses basic Christological issues as articulated by Aquinas in the Summa and Summa Contra Gentiles. These include, but are not limited to: one divine Person with two natures, the hypostatic union and inferences from it, the prerogatives of Christ’s human nature, issues of redemption, and the three offices of Christ. Scripture and the writings of John Paul II and Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger are used.

Christology by Michael Dauphinais: 2. Christ and the Gospels

Recorded in 2003, This course addresses basic Christological issues as articulated by Aquinas in the Summa and Summa Contra Gentiles. These include, but are not limited to: one divine Person with two natures, the hypostatic union and inferences from it, the prerogatives of Christ’s human nature, issues of redemption, and the three offices of Christ. Scripture and the writings of John Paul II and Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger are used.

Christology by Michael Dauphinais: 1. Christ and the Old Testament

Recorded in 2003, this course addresses basic Christological issues as articulated by Aquinas in the Summa and Summa Contra Gentiles. These include, but are not limited to: one divine Person with two natures, the hypostatic union and inferences from it, the prerogatives of Christ’s human nature, issues of redemption, and the three offices of Christ. Scripture and the writings of John Paul II and Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger are used.

Natural Law by Charles E. Rice: 6. Incorporated into the Teaching of Christ by the Magisterium

Charles E. Rice concludes this course by showing the connections between natural law and the teachings of the Catholic Church.

Natural Law by Charles E. Rice: 5. Basis for Good Laws and Protection Against Unjust Laws

A good law is one that is created with a correct understanding of human nature.

Natural Law by Charles E. Rice: 4. How Does the Natural Law Work?

A natural law system is one that recognizes that we can know right from wrong, and judge the justness of a human law according to its adherence to natural law.

Natural Law by Charles E. Rice: 3. Revelational Foundations of the Natural Law

In this lecture, Charles E. Rice concludes his discussion of the foundations of natural law by describing the role of faith and divine revelation in our understanding.

Natural Law by Charles E. Rice: 2. The Reasoned Foundations of the Natural Law

In his second lecture, Charles E. Rice begins a short sequence on the foundations of the natural law, focusing on what can be known through philosophy and by man's natural reason.

Natural Law by Charles E. Rice: 1. Enlightenment Jurisprudence and the Culture of Death

Charles E. Rice, a legendary professor at the Notre Dame school of law, begins his course on the natural law by asking the question: Is there any law more fundamental than the laws of a nation?

 

 

Basics: Faith and Reason by Ralph McInerny

“Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth—in a word, to know himself—so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.”  Thus began John Paul II’s great encyclical on faith and reason, Fides et Ratio. 

Sadly, what John Paul II joined together in marriage, too many in the modern world have attempted to put asunder, seeing faith and reason as not only incompatible, but in opposition to one another.  The Catholic Church, by contrast, has always taught that the truths of faith and the truths of reason will ultimately not contradict one another because both have God as their Author. 

In these two thirty-minute lectures, Ralph McInerny introduces listeners to that great encyclical and to the Church’s perennial teaching on the relationship between faith and reason.”