{"id":101597,"date":"2017-11-25T00:43:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-25T07:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=101597"},"modified":"2017-11-27T08:19:07","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T15:19:07","slug":"goody-free-course-st-thomas-peter-kreeft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2017\/11\/goody-free-course-st-thomas-peter-kreeft.html","title":{"rendered":"Goody! A Free Course on St. Thomas by Peter Kreeft!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

This is so great!<\/p>\n

In September, The King\u2019s College released a\u00a0free, self-paced micro-course<\/a>\u00a0by Dr. Peter Kreeft titled \u201cA Sample of Key Concepts from Thomas Aquinas.\u201d This four-lesson course expounds key texts from Aquinas\u2019\u00a0Summa Theologica\u00a0<\/em>about the existence of God, the relationship of reason and faith, and the connection between God\u2019s will and human will. With half-hour video lectures and readings from Kreeft\u2019s annotation of Aquinas,\u00a0Summa of the Summa<\/em><\/a>, the course allows students to engage with the primary source text under the teaching of one of the most important Christian apologists of our time. The course also features questions for reflection and a discussion board.<\/p>\n

Kreeft has often described his philosophy of teaching as a trialogue, a conversation between the voice of the students, the voice of the professor, and, most importantly, the voice of the text. In the course, Kreeft guides students into deeper understanding of Aquinas\u2019 logic through carefully reasoned lectures, critical questions, and reference to other thinkers.<\/p>\n

Kreeft\u2019s signature speaking style makes approachable a text that has captivated the world\u2019s sharpest minds. Explaining Thomas\u2019 reasoning of how humans can know God, Kreeft calls Aquinas\u2019 claims \u201cvery modest,\u201d but explains why many readers think the opposite:<\/p>\n

Four thousand pages of very rational, highly condensed, very clear, totally logical arguments about God: this guy claims to know everything! He\u2019s got it all in a neat system! Nothing could be further from the truth. Aquinas is not only a mystic, but almost an agnostic. Our knowledge of God is very severely limited.<\/p>\n

A flea\u2019s knowledge of you is less inadequate than our knowledge of God, because a flea, though very different than you, is only finite and you are finite. Therefore, there\u2019s some proportion, however remote, between flea\u2019s knowledge and human knowledge. But the difference between human knowledge and divine knowledge is greater than that, Aquinas explicitly says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kreeft is a tenured professor at Boston College and a distinguished visiting professor of philosophy at The King\u2019s College. He received his A.B in Philosophy from Calvin College, and his M.A. and Ph.D in Philosophy from Fordham University.<\/p>\n

Dr. Mark Hijleh, vice president for Academic Affairs and dean of faculty, said, \u201cThe outstanding teaching of Dr. Peter Kreeft is a treasure that we wanted to make available to everyone, to develop their minds and deepen their faith by studying Aquinas\u2019 thought. It is a privilege to have so many brilliant scholars at The King\u2019s College, and we hope this course and other exceptional content we continue to develop will become a resource for many.\u201d<\/p>\n

Click\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0to sign up for \u201cA Sample of Key Concepts from Thomas Aquinas.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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