Creation: Mercy Beyond Justice | Prof. John O'Callaghan

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🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Professor John O'Callaghan delves into St. Thomas Aquinas's understanding of God's mercy in creation, addressing the apparent paradox of extending mercy to non-existent beings by examining the transition from non-being to being.

This lecture was given on October 19th, 2024, at Dominican House of Studies.

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Keywords: Being, Creation, God's Mercy, Justice, Metaphysics, Misericordia, Non-being, Suffering, Thomas Aquinas

About the Speaker:

Dr. John Callaghan is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame University. He is a permanent member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas and he was the President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (2012-2013). He is the author of Thomistic Realism and the Linguistic Turn: Toward a More Perfect Form of Existence and the editor, with Prof. Thomas Hibbs, of Recovering Nature: Essays in Honor of Ralph McInerny.

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1:03.0	Jesus told St. Faustina that those who proclaim the mercy of God will enjoy eternal life. So
1:10.0	if there's anything I would like you to take from this talk, it would be that you would go
1:15.2	from here and proclaim the mercy of God and enjoy eternal blessedness.
1:21.9	Now, one thing that this can seem, and I'm not quite getting to the talk yet, we tend to think of mercy and justice
1:29.4	in very moral terms, as opposed to, for instance, metaphysical terms. And certainly last night,
1:39.5	you might have started to see the sort of metaphysical weight of these questions, except it doesn't really come
1:45.3	out in the case of the solution to how God can act justly in creation, because he's still
1:53.8	sticking with the notion of the metaphorical justice of God to himself. So you remember the structure
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