Faith and Hope amidst Darkness and Fears: C.S. Lewis and Thomas Aquinas | Prof. Michael Dauphinais

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🗓️ 21 March 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This talk was given on February 2, 2022 at Texas A&M University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Michael Dauphinais, Ph.D. is Professor and Chair of the Theology Department at Ave Maria University in Ave Maria, Florida. Professor Dauphinais holds a B.S.E. from Duke University, an M.T.S. from Duke Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. He has co-authored Knowing the Love of Christ: An Introduction to the Theology of Thomas Aquinas and Holy People, Holy Land: A Theological Introduction to the Bible. He has co-edited multiple volumes as well as numerous articles and chapters in books dedicated to theology and exegesis in Aquinas and other topics relating to Catholic theology. Professor Dauphinais previously served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty. His favorite courses are C.S. Lewis, Triune God, and the Colloquium on Ancients and Moderns. He also enjoys riding horses and running.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Thomistic Institute. For more talks like this, visit us at
0:06.1	tamistic institute.org. I'm honored to share with you some of what I've learned from two of my
0:18.0	dearest teachers and mentors, Thomas Aquinas and C.S. Lewis. Our goal this evening is not
0:24.3	so much to learn about them, but to learn from them. You may have heard Hamlet once asked,
0:33.3	right, to be or not to be, that is the question. One thing I learned recently is that's the wrong question to ask.
0:40.4	The real question we need to ask is not whether to be, but how to be, how to live.
0:46.9	And this lecture will be successful tonight.
0:49.4	If it in kindles in you a sense that you can learn better how to live.
0:55.5	And that ultimately, the answer to that question is to be found, right, in a life
1:00.4	following Jesus Christ.
1:03.8	Now, we live today amidst a pandemic of anxiety, depression, hopelessness.
1:12.3	In their 2019 book, The Stressed Years of Their Lives,
1:17.7	Helping Your Kids Survive and Thrive in the College years,
1:21.1	the authors report the following statistics.
1:23.5	Among college students, 30% report being so depressed it was difficult to function. Compared with their parents' generation, college students, 30% report being so depressed it was difficult to function.
1:29.1	Compared with their parents' generation, college students today are 50% more likely to say they feel
1:35.2	overwhelmed. The National Institute of Mental Health reports that one half of adolescents and adults
1:41.4	have been affected by an anxiety disorder. The average person worries for
1:47.2	55 minutes a day, those with general anxiety disorder for five hours every day. If this was the
1:54.8	situation pre-COVID, pre-political societal tensions, how are we doing today? In 2021, the CDC released a study that said
2:05.1	40% of adults report symptoms of depression or an anxiety disorder within the past seven days.
2:14.3	That's 40%. Two out of five. Over 25% are on medication or receiving counseling, an additional
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