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. en © 2025 Berquist Lectures Wed, 23 Sep 2026 02:07:32 +0000 Fri, 17 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Duane H. Berquist 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. false Duane H. Berquist info@example.com https://berquistcourse.com/images/cover-14.jpg https://berquistcourse.com serial 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. Notes and transcript: https://berquistcourse.com/course/theology/14-alia/001-matthew-28-1-the-women-at-the-tomb-the-angels-message-and/ Berquist follows Aquinas's reading of Matthew 28 under the pattern of "first hearing, then seeing," moving from the women's approach to the tomb through the earthquake, the angel's announcement, and Christ's own meeting with them. He draws out Thomas's layered sense of the text: women restoring what women lost at the Fall, night giving way to day as a figure of sin turning to grace, and Galilee read as a kind of transmigration. He cross-references the other Gospels and 1 Corinthians 15 to line up the resurrection appearances, then closes with Thomas's and the Fathers' answer to the guards' bribed, false report. Notes and transcript: https://berquistcourse.com/course/theology/14-alia/001-matthew-28-1-the-women-at-the-tomb-the-angels-message-and/ https://berquistcourse.com/course/theology/14-alia/001-matthew-28-1-the-women-at-the-tomb-the-angels-message-and/ https://media.juskelis.com/episodes/v1/alia/001-1.mp3 0:49:59 1 full false 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. Notes and transcript: https://berquistcourse.com/course/theology/14-alia/002-matthew-28-2-the-galilee-appearance-all-power-is-given-to/ Reading Matthew's account of the risen Christ meeting the eleven on the mountain in Galilee, Berquist asks what the disciples' worship mixed with doubt means, and unpacks the threefold structure of Christ's words, "all power in heaven and earth has been given to me." He cross-references Mark and John to reconcile the order of the resurrection appearances. The class then turns philosophical: using Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Shakespeare's Sonnet 37, and Aquinas's Summa Contra Gentiles, Berquist argues that divine simplicity rules out envy between Father and Son, and closes by tying this to natural friendship and the commandment to honor father and mother. Notes and transcript: https://berquistcourse.com/course/theology/14-alia/002-matthew-28-2-the-galilee-appearance-all-power-is-given-to/ https://berquistcourse.com/course/theology/14-alia/002-matthew-28-2-the-galilee-appearance-all-power-is-given-to/ https://media.juskelis.com/episodes/v1/alia/001-2.mp3 0:40:07 2 full false 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. Notes and transcript: https://berquistcourse.com/course/theology/14-alia/003-appropriation-to-the-persons-of-the-trinity-and-the-visions/ Berquist asks what it means to appropriate a divine attribute to one Person of the Trinity when all three share every perfection equally. Drawing on Aquinas's Commentary on the Sentences, he distinguishes appropriation from antonomasia, the naming of a person by a title proper to another. He then turns to the Life and Revelations of Saint Gertrude the Great, reading her visions of the Trinity and of the Blessed Virgin as the "White Lily of the Trinity," along with words spoken to her by Christ, to show power, wisdom, and goodness recurring throughout. He closes by linking her prayers of confession and thanksgiving to Aquinas's scriptural metaphors and to his own devotion to Gertrude. Notes and transcript: https://berquistcourse.com/course/theology/14-alia/003-appropriation-to-the-persons-of-the-trinity-and-the-visions/ https://berquistcourse.com/course/theology/14-alia/003-appropriation-to-the-persons-of-the-trinity-and-the-visions/ https://media.juskelis.com/episodes/v1/alia/002-1.mp3 0:43:10 3 full false Thu, 06 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000 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. Notes and transcript: https://berquistcourse.com/course/theology/14-alia/004-augustine-on-order-in-god-aristotles-senses-of-before-and/ Berquist opens with a puzzle: Augustine denies any before-and-after in the Trinity, yet Aquinas defines order itself as before-and-after. He shows how Aquinas resolves this by treating Augustine's usage as an analogous, equivocal transfer of the term—keeping the formal sense of "this from that" while stripping away the generic, temporal sense. From there he works through Aristotle's distinct senses of "before"—in time, in being, in knowledge, in goodness, and in causality—and how Aquinas deploys them in arguing for God's existence and divine causality. He closes by noting the mind's habit of dividing things into twos and threes, drawing examples from the categories, Euclid, the Our Father, the four causes, and the Summa's own tripartite structure. Notes and transcript: https://berquistcourse.com/course/theology/14-alia/004-augustine-on-order-in-god-aristotles-senses-of-before-and/ https://berquistcourse.com/course/theology/14-alia/004-augustine-on-order-in-god-aristotles-senses-of-before-and/ https://media.juskelis.com/episodes/v1/alia/002-2.mp3 1:05:34 4 full false Thu, 06 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0000