Alia #
Additional theological and philosophical topics from Dr. Berquist’s lectures. These lectures explore various subjects that complement and extend the core curriculum, addressing particular questions in theology, philosophy, and their integration.
4 episodes, about 3 hours
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Class 1 #
Part 1 of 2 · Matthew 28 (1): The Women at the Tomb, the Angel’s Message, and the Bribed Guards #
50 min Berquist works through Aquinas’s commentary on Matthew 28, tracing the women at the tomb, the angel’s message, and the guards bribed to lie about the resurrection.
Part 2 of 2 · Matthew 28 (2): The Galilee Appearance, ‘All Power Is Given to Me’, and Why God the Father Cannot Envy the Son #
40 min Berquist works through Christ’s Galilee appearance in Matthew 28, then asks why the Father cannot envy the Son—drawing on Aristotle’s Ethics, Shakespeare’s Sonnet 37, and Aquinas’s Summa Contra Gentiles.
Class 2 2018-09-06 #
Part 1 of 2 · Appropriation to the Persons of the Trinity and the Visions of St. Gertrude #
43 min Berquist explains appropriation—attributing power to the Father, wisdom to the Son, and goodness to the Spirit—via Aquinas’s Commentary on the Sentences, then reads Gertrude the Great’s visions to show the same pattern at work.
Part 2 of 2 · Augustine on Order in God, Aristotle’s Senses of Before and After, and the Rule of Two or Three #
66 min Berquist untangles Augustine’s claim that there is “no before and after” in the Trinity against Aquinas’s own definition of order as before-and-after, then surveys Aristotle’s several senses of priority.