'Go Down to Nazareth': The Contemplative Life and the Nature of Prayer | Prof. Adam Eitel

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🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This lecture was given on January 28, 2022 at the Dominican House of Studies as part of "Thomas Aquinas on Prayer, An Intellectual Retreat." The handout for this lecture can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/2p8k24zu. 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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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Thomistic Institute.
0:04.1	For more talks like this, visit us at tamisticinstitute.org.
0:11.8	St. Thomas Aquinas says following Aristotle that all learning proceeds from something already known to something unknown.
0:25.1	You begin with certain principles, certain starting points, and from things already known
0:34.6	or in part, you draw out new inferences or you bring clarity to what's known
0:46.4	hazily or impart. And one of the things I'm interested in in the next half hour to 40 minutes or so, we'll see
0:55.3	how it goes, is helping you to bring clarity to something that I take it you already know.
1:05.5	I take it that you already know something about prayer because you take part in it.
1:13.6	But I'm wanting to, so I, if there are any fireworks going off, the fireworks are all going to be basically elicited in you
1:23.6	from something you already know about prayer in your own experience, something you've already
1:28.7	learned or read or reflected upon in conjunction with something that I'll present to you on
1:35.5	the basis of Aquinas' works. All right. That word exhortation is a strange word,
1:43.2	and it's funny you mentioned that because as I was thinking about
1:47.4	how to begin this talk tonight as I was praying I saw an image of a hunter and that brought to my
1:58.2	mind immediately,
2:02.8	this is, now you tell me which is weirder,
2:05.0	that I saw a hunter while I was praying,
2:07.6	or that made me think immediately of Thomas Aquinas' commentary on Boethius'
2:11.5	on the Hebdovats.
2:17.1	Here's the connection.
2:18.2	It's a peculiar book, and it's a peculiar commentary on a peculiar book.
2:24.1	Thomas at the beginning of this book says of Boethius that he was a hunter for exhortations.
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