The Eucharist as Symbol and Reality | Prof. Alexander Pruss

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🗓️ 30 March 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This talk was given on January 8, 2022 at the Dominican House of Studies as part of "The Eucharist," an intellectual retreat for the Thomistic Institute’s chapters at Auburn University and North Carolina State University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Alexander Pruss has doctorates in philosophy and mathematics, and is currently Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University. His books include The Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Reassessment (Cambridge University Press), One Body: An Essay in Christian Sexual Ethics (Notre Dame University Press), and Actuality, Possibility and Worlds (Continuum). His research areas include metaphysics, philosophy of religion, Christian ethics, philosophy of mathematics and formal epistemology.

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0:08.0	So I'm a philosopher, not a theologian.
0:14.0	So this is going to be a little bit different.
0:16.0	This is kind of how, as a philosopher, though, I think about theological issues, which I guess mainly means I take for granted
0:24.8	certain things from scripture and tradition and try to figure out what follows.
0:30.8	So in this case, I'm doing something a little bit different.
0:33.2	What I wanted to do is think about what it is, you know, so why do we believe that Christ is really present in the Eucharist?
0:46.5	But not in the sense of, you know, why do we believe in that, well, God said so.
0:51.5	But what's important about that, sort of philosophically maybe somewhat
0:57.4	theologically?
0:59.9	And this talk comes out of discussions.
1:05.5	I believe I had a number of years back with two Protestant philosophers.
1:11.6	I think that's what it comes from because I found notes on my computer of those of a talk where I had the discussion with them,
1:17.6	but I can't remember anything of that, that actual talk I had with it, but I do have all the notes.
1:24.6	Okay, so we start with scripture, right? So we have the Old Testament. We are told
1:33.8	that there will, in Malachi, that there will be a sacrifice offered from the rising of the sun to its
1:41.4	setting, which is nicely ambiguous between from the east to the west
1:47.4	versus from the morning to the evening, and perhaps it just means both of those, they lay everywhere
1:52.3	and at all times. Then of course we have the words of institution, take, this is my body,
1:59.7	this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many.
2:04.0	And we have the bread of life discourse in John, 6, the Jews disputed among themselves,
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