The Art of Dating | Prof. Michael Foley

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🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Professor Michael Foley discusses dating as an art, addressing the challenges posed by the sexual revolution and social media, and offering advice for men and women to approach relationships with virtue and integrity.

This lecture was given on October 4th, 2024, at The Ohio State University.

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About the Speaker:

Michael Foley is a Catholic theologian, a Professor of Patristics at Baylor University, and the author of over 400 articles and seventeen books, including the Politically Incorrect Guide to Christianity, Drinking with the Saints, and Dining with the Saints. He can speak on a wide variety of topics touching upon Catholicism, culture, and liturgy.

Keywords: Courtship, Dating, Ethics, Marriage, Pornography, Romantic Relationships, Sexual Revolution, Social Media, Virtue

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tumistic Institute podcast.
0:05.0	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
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0:21.4	Thomistic Institute.org. Thank you very much, Chris. It's a pleasure to be here. And it's a pleasure
0:28.0	to talk about the art of dating. And I'm going to explain what I mean by that. But before I do,
0:34.4	I was just having a lovely conversation with Sarah, who was a mechanical
0:38.3	engineer, and she told me that she's taking a course, an entire course on heat transfer.
0:44.3	So I think my next talk is going to be called the art of dating, colon, virtuous heat transfer.
0:51.3	What do you think? All right, well, it's a working title.
0:55.0	But the reason why I did call dating an art is because it is an art.
1:02.0	It's like any other skill.
1:04.0	It's something you learn.
1:06.0	It's something you practice.
1:08.0	And if you practice it well, it is a beautiful thing that gives glory to God. So there's
1:16.3	nothing wrong with cultivating this art. You don't do it for its own sake, as we'll get into in
1:22.4	just a few moments, but it is a good skill to have. With respect to the practice of this art,
1:30.3	there are a few things that you and I have in common,
1:35.3	and then there are a few things we don't have in common.
1:38.3	So I have been married for 26 years.
1:41.3	I have six kids.
1:43.3	That means that when, when my wife and I were dating, it was and
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