'A Fire Shall Flame Out’ Charity and the Conditions of Prayer | Prof. Adam Eitel

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🗓️ 15 March 2022

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This talk was given on January 29, 2022 at the Dominican House of Studies as part of "Thomas Aquinas on Prayer", an intellectual retreat for the UVA Thomistic Institute chapter. The handout for this lecture can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/3n7ztdwz. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Adam Eitel is on the Yale Divinity School faculty as Assistant Professor of Ethics. Dr. Eitel focuses his research and teaching on the history of Christian moral thought, contemporary social ethics and criticism, and modern religious thought. Dr. Eitel has roughly a dozen books, chapters, edited volumes, and articles published or in progress. These include an ethical analysis of drone strikes and a theological account of domination. His current book project explores the role of love in the moral theology of Thomas Aquinas. A 2004 Baylor University graduate and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Fribourg, Dr. Eitel received his M.Div. and Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary, completing the latter in 2015.

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0:11.1	So what I want to do is circle back to Aquinas' conception of charity.
0:18.8	And I want this to be a kind of a loom on which to weave some of the
0:24.4	things that you've been learning and clarifying this weekend. It's another, like the account
0:30.2	of the contemplative life I gave you, it's another big, broad framework in which to, I think, better understand the kind of prayer we've been discussing.
0:45.1	And I think it may even speak to some of the questions that were raised in the last talk that
0:51.2	my colleague answered very clearly,
0:55.1	but we may have a chance to revisit them.
0:57.8	So here goes.
1:00.1	We want to talk about charity as a kind of friendship with God.
1:06.1	The context for understanding charity is first and foremost Holy Scripture,
1:14.9	and I've put here a couple of passages.
1:18.2	So we read in John 1515 that Jesus says to his disciples,
1:24.6	and I think by extension, the Holy Spirit says to us,
1:29.1	no longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing,
1:34.9	but I have called you friends. For all that I've heard from my father, I've made known to you.
1:43.6	And when Thomas Aquinas reads this passage, and specifically
1:49.1	when he notes Christ's announcement of this friendship, he takes it to be exceedingly good news. He takes it to be a declaration of something
2:06.6	very concrete, something very definite that can be described. He connects it with the point that
2:16.5	St. Paul makes in the letter to the Romans,
2:19.6	where it's said that the love of God has been poured into our hearts
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