Why People Become Atheists (Fr. James Brent, OP) | Ep. 219

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

Stthomasaquinas, Saintthomasaquinas, Mattfradd, Theology, Catholic, Dominican, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

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🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

Today on Pints with Aquinas, I'm joined by Fr. James Brent, O.P. Fr. James is professor of philosophy at the Dominican House of Studies, and one of the most brilliant, articulate, and convincing people I’ve ever met.

During this conversation, we dig into the philosophical soil in which atheism grows — particularly the materialist, mechanicist, nominalist, skeptic, and relativist worldviews so prevalent in our culture. We’ll tackle the BIG issues, like:

• Why saying there is a God or there is no God represent two radically different worldviews

• How atheism is, historically, a minority position, and what’s happened to change this minority position in modern times

• Why true science is actually neutral about the question of God’s existence

• Why it feels like you’re rejecting science when you reject materialism (HINT: You’re not!)

• The five negative positions that constitute “big tent” Platonism, and why this list is invaluable in discussions with atheists...

If you enjoy BIG conversations, then grab your notepad and pen because you’re really going to enjoy this episode!

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1:05.5	conditions apply. Yes, gooday and welcome to Pints with Aquinas. My name is Matt Frad, and today I am joined around the bar table by Father James Brent, who is one of the most brilliant and articulate and convincing Dominicans, just people actually, that I've ever encountered. So he's a Dominican friar. Let's see here. He lives and teaches
1:32.0	philosophy at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. He earned his doctorate in
1:36.5	philosophy from St. Louis University, where he wrote on Thomas Aquinas on the rationality of faith.
1:42.1	He was ordained a priest 2010. He frequently gives lectures for the
1:45.4	Timistic Institute and often travels to give retreats for college students and young adults.
1:50.6	He's also the promoter of the angelic warfare confraternity for the Dominican province of St. Joseph.
1:56.7	I'm going to put some links in the description below so that you can learn more from him.
2:00.7	In particular, there was a specific talk that he gave.
2:04.1	And it was because of that talk that I decided to engage with Father Brent.
2:08.3	I'm going to have that below as well.
2:10.6	You're just going to absolutely love this.
2:11.9	Basically, we talk about the soil out of which atheists grow, or atheism grows. We talk about materialism, mechanicism.
2:22.4	I keep calling it mechanism. So I think I even spelled that wrong in the thing I put up in a minute,
	...

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