The Image of God and the Soul | Prof. John Grabowski

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🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This talk was given on October 1, 2021 at the Dominican House of Studies as part of "Created in the Image of God: An Intellectual Retreat." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: A native of Wisconsin, Dr. Grabowski earned his B.A. in theology at the University of Steubenville and his Ph.D. at Marquette University. For the last thirty years he has been on the faculty of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. where he is currently Ordinary Professor of Moral Theology/ Ethics. He and his wife were appointed to the Pontifical Council for the Family by Pope Benedict XVI in the fall of 2009 where they served as a member couple. He has served two terms as a theological advisor to the U.S.C.C.B. Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family, and Youth and one term as an advisor to the subcommittee which produced the Pastoral Letter Marriage: Love and Life in the Divine Plan (2009). In 2015 he was appointed by Pope Francis to serve as an expert (adiutor) at the Synod of Bishops on the Family. Dr. Grabowski has published widely in the areas of moral theology, marriage, sexuality, and bioethics. His articles have appeared in scholarly journals as Nova et Vetera, The Thomist, The Heythrop Journal, and the National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly as well as more popular publications such as America, Commonweal, The Living Light, and Our Sunday Visitor. His books include Sex and Virtue: An Introduction to Sexual Ethics (CUA Press, 2003), Transformed in Christ: Essays on the Renewal of Moral Theology (Sapientia Press, 2017), One Body: A Program of Marriage Formation for the New Evangelization with Claire Grabowski (Emmaus Road Press, 2018), A Catechism for Family Life with Sarah Bartel (CUA Press, 2018), and Raising Catholic Kids for Their Vocations with Claire Grabowski (TAN, 2019). Dr. Grabowski has lectured and presented at conferences across the United States. He and his wife Claire are regular guests on Greg and Lisa Popcak’s radio show More 2 Life on EWTN. They have five children, six grandchildren, and reside in the Archdiocese of Washington.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Tamistic Institute.
0:03.3	For more talks like this, visit us at tamisticinstitute.org.
0:10.6	I have two talks that I'm giving today, and the first one is going to focus on the image of God and the soul,
0:18.1	and the second, the image of God and the body.
0:21.6	The catechism tells us we image God as a composite of body and soul, but I think it's good
0:27.5	to take those in parts.
0:30.6	While Scripture, as I'm sure Father Jordan will tell us, connects the image of God to our ability
0:36.1	to exercise dominion in creation and to enter
0:39.8	into communion with others, both with God in the Sabbath day, the worship of God, and with one
0:45.8	another in the community of male and female. Most of the theological tradition of the church
0:52.4	tends to focus on the image of God in the human soul,
0:56.5	in our rational soul. The catechism of the Catholic Church in 356 observes, of all visible creatures,
1:06.4	only man is able to know and love his creator. He is the only creature on earth that God has
1:13.1	willed for his own sake, and he alone is called to share by knowledge and love in God's own life.
1:20.2	In other words, like God himself, the human person is not just a something but a someone someone, and as such possesses a unique dignity.
1:31.2	From all eternity, God willed that each one of us should exist.
1:37.4	And God, as the feast we celebrate today, tells us, gives us a guardian angel to accompany us, to guide us back to himself in our
1:47.3	earthly life. The catechism in the next paragraph says, this is 357, he is capable of self-knowledge,
1:55.2	of self-possession and of freely giving himself and entering into communion with other persons.
2:08.0	And he is called by grace to a covenant with his creator to offer him a response of faith and love that no other creature can give in his stead.
2:11.8	So as Father Jonah told us last night, St. Augustine's line, right, God will to create us without us, but he will
2:19.5	not save us without us. We have to say yes to God's invitation to return to him in love.
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