The Gift and Fruits of the Holy Spirit | Prof. Eleonore Stump

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🗓️ 15 November 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This lecture was given at St. Savior's Priory (Dublin) on 9 October 2019.

Eleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University, where she has taught since 1992. She is also Honorary Professor at Wuhan University and at the Logos Institute, St. Andrews, and she is a Professorial Fellow at Australian Catholic University. She has published extensively in philosophy of religion, contemporary metaphysics, and medieval philosophy. Her books include her major study Aquinas (Routledge, 2003), her extensive treatment of the problem of evil, Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (Oxford, 2010), and her far-reaching examination of human redemption, Atonement (Oxford, 2018). She has given the Gifford Lectures (Aberdeen, 2003), the Wilde lectures (Oxford, 2006), the Stewart lectures (Princeton, 2009) and the Stanton lectures (Cambridge, 2018). She is past president of the Society of Christian Philosophers, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and the American Philosophical Association, Central Division; and she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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0:00.0	So I'm going to talk about how we should live, how we should live as good people, how we should live as Christians.
0:09.0	And I'm going to explain to you how Aquinas sought because he's so smart and he's so helpful.
0:16.0	We might as well learn it from him.
0:18.0	That's the idea.
0:19.0	And Aquinas' ethics is focused around the virtues, but also
0:25.6	around the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit. So that's where I want to show you, I want
0:31.6	to show you what is at the heart of his ethical theory. What is at the heart of his ethical
0:36.6	theory has to do actually with the Holy Spirit.
0:40.6	So Aquinas thinks that when you are a person in grace, you have the Holy Spirit indwelling in you,
0:50.5	and the Holy Spirit indwelling in you makes you friends with God.
0:55.0	So this is what Aquinas says.
0:57.0	He says, our Lord, in speaking of the Holy Spirit, said to his disciples,
1:02.0	the Holy Spirit shall abide with you and shall be in you.
1:07.0	And the Holy Spirit is not anything in person without the gifts of the Holy Spirit. And the gifts of the Holy Spirit is not any human person without the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
1:12.9	And the gifts of the Holy Spirit, just listen to this,
1:16.2	the gifts of the Holy Spirit are habits whereby a human person is perfected
1:21.6	to obey readily the Holy Spirit.
1:24.8	That's the idea.
1:27.3	So, Aquinas seems that when the Holy Spirit comes to well in a person in grace, then that
1:34.8	person becomes friends with God in consequence.
1:38.7	And the point about friendship is you can converse with your friend,
1:45.0	you can talk to your friend, but you can also listen when your friend
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