Feb 2, 2023

Dr. William Marra speaks about God as known by Faith and Reason. The High Middle Ages provided the background for a variety of attempts to prove the existence of God through Reason and relate those proofs to the Faith. This was fueled, to begin with, by medieval familiarity with logic, but it was further stimulated...

Feb 2, 2023

Dr. William Marra discusses St. Anselm's proof for the existence of God. Perhaps the greatest early scholastic mind using logic to prove the existence of God was St. Anselm of Canterbury, justly famous for his Ontological Argument. Dr. William Marra discusses the merits of this argument, objections to it, and its...

Feb 2, 2023

Dr. William Marra critiques the proofs of St. Thomas Aquinas. The most famous student of Aristotle in the medieval West was St. Thomas. He had to demonstrate if and how Aristotle could be used on behalf of the Faith, and whether this use was in union with or contrary to the comments on the Greek philosopher's work by...