The Meaning of Suffering & Human Flourishing w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. & Prof. Eleonore Stump

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Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Prof. Eleonore Stump about the meaning of suffering, the link between suffering and human flourishing, and the role of stories in understanding the arcs of our lives.
The Meaning of Suffering & Human Flourishing w/ Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. & Prof. Eleonore Stump (Off-Campus Conversations)
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[@therese_paula]

If only I could experience attending one of her classes… Professor Stump is a blessing to the Church.

[@aiantenor9080]

Thank you Fr Line and Prof. Stump. This is enlightening. Have only heard of suffering this way.

[@markofarrell5634]

This is the best Thomistic podcast ive ever seen. Praise the Lord for Professoressa Stump. She Also shows the blinding importance of Patristic scholarship! "When the Lord gives one an occasion of suffering much, says St. John Chrysostum, He shows a greater love for such a one than if he gave him the power to raise the dead to life; for when we work miracles we are debtors to God, but when we suffer patiently, God becomes so to say a debtor to us."

[@user-7lf7w]

Hardest thing of all.. to love others and to make sense of our own sufferings that God is allowing

[@aiantenor9080]

You both are charitable

[@halleylujah247]

Wow! Professor Stump, this is epic. Congrats getting such a legend on.

[@lupnasty]

Beautiful interview. Thank you Fr. Gregory and Dr. Stump.

[@goacatholicproductions730]

Thanks for this video

[@bernardbuela420]

Am from the Philippines, Davao City. May we in our grad school of theology invite her to be a resource speaker in the first semester of school year 2024-2025? Teaching theology myself, I find Madam Stump so articulate and deeply simple in her theological hermeneutics of soteriology. Thank you, Fr. Greg for guesting her in your blog. God bless and keep.

[@ambbarofficial]

Wonderful conversation. Thank you.

[@paolo4118]

Professor Stump is a beacon of light, she has the gift of bringing clarity to the most difficult issues of the philosophy of religion, such as the problem of suffering. She is such a blessing to all who love wisdom.

[@highground3609]

Fr Pine and Dr Stump?!?!?!? Two of my favorite scholars!!!!! Am I the only one thinking Fr. Pine kinda looks like Squirtle? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@bobtaylor170]

Sometimes the KZbin algorithm, which tends to be a dope, gets things right and shops me a video which is perfect for me. The algorithm seems to have gained forty I.Q. points overnight, hence, the appearance of this video in my feed this morning. As far as I can tell, the algorithm wasn't even intimidated by my being a Protestant. It may have a moral courage I wouldn't have suspected. The video has as a depth which I'm grateful for. I'm a rabid Flannery O'Connor fan, know that she read Aquinas every evening at bedtime, but that essentially describes my knowledge of Aquinas. I think several Presbyterians I know, including my pastors and many of the people in my church, will want to see it.

[@thisis_chavez]

Prayers for the faith

[@jeromechristian9186]

Thank you so much.

[@orangutan8617]

Brilliant! Why so long in getting the Great Eleonore? More please.

[@deionkathawa5043]

Father (or anyone who knows) - where in Aquinas' work does he discuss the moment of surrender that Professor Stump mentions (beginning at 24:00) in which the Holy Spirit indwells in the person's soul? Thanks!

[@aaronargottelopez3488]

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[@joolz5747]

Regarding David… I’ve always learned that he was trying to please God! Recognizing how he sinned, and was always very repentant and really really couldn’t stand the way he was acting. But he did it over and over because he knew he was a human. And so David is a good example, because I think the answer is repentance, deep deep repentance, --live our lives, the best we can, and when we sin, we must repent and learn from that. The other thing is, we must be open to the Holy Spirit to the higher power to the highest good to God. If we’re always seeking him and open to him, it will succeed for us to deal with life suffering much better. I’m glad we have a great thinkers out there who help us with these issues. But then we must act on what we hear and think about it … meditate and live the best life we can live. I would say to pray and get spiritual. I think Aquinas totally said everything he had intellectualized he was now putting aside, and diving in to the word of Jesus, word of God.

[@mariac4602]

Brilliant philosopher. Thank you for featuring a woman. Lots of brilliant minds that happen to be women, yet rarely do I see them on Catholic channels unless speaking on the theology of the body. All well and good, but I KNOW there are faithful Catholics, with brilliant minds, who are also ......women.

[@JacquelineHinshaw]

Does anyone have a source for her St.John Chrysostom quote? I’d like to read more!

[@markbirmingham6011]

Comment for traction

[@marysanchez6382]

What about the suffering of Mary? Why did Jesus allow his mother to suffer so much?

[@lisamoag6548]

Yet , you are not face to face when on the computer, you don’t know as you are through a glass darkly. Face to face and eye to eye able to reach out and touch the beloved other . Then you know one another. Pretending to know or fully know?

[@lisamoag6548]

In two different rooms. Not present.

[@CamiloSoares87]

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