Is it Reasonable to Believe in God? | Prof. Francis Beckwith

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🗓️ 25 March 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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This lecture was given on February 1, 2022 at the University of North Texas. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Francis J. Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy & Church-State Studies at Baylor University, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Philosophy. Among his over one dozen books are Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice (Cambridge University Press, 2007), Politics For Christians: Statecraft As Soulcraft (IVP, 2010), and Taking Rites Seriously: Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith (Cambridge University Press, 2015), winner of the American Academy of Religion's prestigious 2016 Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Constructive-Reflective Studies. He is a graduate of the Washington University School of Law, St. Louis (MJS) as well as Fordham University (PhD, MA, philosophy).

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Tamistic Institute.
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0:08.0	The title of my talk is it reasonable to believe in God.
0:16.0	There's lots of ways that you can approach this question.
0:20.0	And I want to approach it.
0:22.4	As Ozzy, you like to be called Ozzy?
0:24.8	Ozzy, sorry.
0:28.0	Ozi has talked about,
0:30.6	the Thomistic Institute is committed to
0:32.7	looking at issues
0:34.9	in the Christian intellectual tradition,
0:36.9	mostly through the lens of St. Thomas Aquinas.
0:39.6	And so I'm going to talk about the reasonableness of belief in God or the question,
0:46.0	is it reasonable to believe in God, through the lens of Aquinas.
0:51.0	And I suspect that, and I don't know how you guys think about this stuff, but I'll tell you a little bit of my own background.
1:00.0	I grew up in Nevada, Las Vegas, and was a kid who gravitated to the intellectual discussions about God and religion and philosophy.
1:14.6	And I was always concerned and kind of obsessed with the issue of arguments for God's existence.
1:21.6	That's why I became a philosopher.
1:23.6	That's our currency in the economy of philosophy. It's arguments.
1:29.3	I am going to talk about some arguments.
1:31.3	But I think when it comes to belief in God, for most people, I think for virtually most people,
1:39.3	belief in God is not always a, in fact, it's very rarely a matter of arguments.
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