What is Prudence?

Saint Thomas Aquinas taught that every human being desires happiness, yet the ways we often seek happiness cannot fully satisfy the human heart. In this lecture delivered at the inaugural Aquinas KC conference at Donnelly College, Fr. Dominic Legge, OP, president of the Dominican House of Studies, uses the Summa Theologiae to explain how our… Download Audio

C.S. Lewis warned that modern life and education were making “men without chests” who lacked ordered desire and rightly formed love. In this lecture delivered at Saint Aidan’s Anglican Church, Dr. Bryan Hollon, president of Trinity Anglican Seminary, uses the Book of Common Prayer to explain how it is meant to order our affections, our… Download Audio

What does it mean to live in a way that is holy? Too often, modern theologians elevate doctrine without elevating moral living, even though true theology cannot be elevated without also elevating virtue. In this episode, Dr. Matthew Barrett sits down with Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, OP, to explore Thomas Aquinas’s doctrinal understanding of the good… Download Audio

Matthew Barrett sits down with Fr. Dominic Legge to explore Christ’s relationship to the Holy Spirit. Together, they discuss Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of Christ’s incarnation as anointed and empowered by the Holy Spirit, elevated by grace while remaining fully human. During the conversation, they consider the Greek patristic tradition, the relationship between grace and the… Download Audio

In this episode of the Credo Podcast, Dr. Scott Clark, president of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, joins Matthew Barrett for a discussion about the Heidelberg Catechism and Clark’s new book, The Heidelberg Catechism: A Historical, Theological, and Pastoral Commentary. In this conversation, Clark explains the historic practice of catechesis, how the Heidelberg Catechism is an… Download Audio

Who does Jesus call? When Jesus calls Matthew, he finds him in the tax collector booth, considered by all a sinner and a traitor to his people. And yet Matthew is the very one Jesus shows mercy to and kindness upon kindness. In this Eucharist homily preached at Trinity Anglican Seminary, Matthew Barrett notes that… Download Audio

In this episode of the Credo Podcast, Dr. Graham Tomlin, President of St Mellitus College(opens in new tab), joins Matthew Barrett for a discussion about Blaise Pascal and Tomlin’s new book Blaise Pascal: The Man Who Made the Modern World(opens in new tab). In this conversation, Tomlin argues that Pascal anticipated the modern worldview and… Download Audio

In this episode of the Credo Podcast, Dr. Graham Tomlin, President of St Mellitus College, joins Matthew Barrett for an in-depth discussion on the priesthood. Christ is our great High Priest, and the task of every individual priest is to remind the church over and over again of Jesus so that the church can be… Download Audio

Matthew Barrett sits down with Dominican friar Fr. Gregory Pine to explore the meaning of prudence. Together, they discuss Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of prudence as “right reason in things to be done” or the virtue that takes counsel, makes judgments, and ultimately commands. During the conversation, they consider moral theology, human limitations, and the freedom… Download Audio

Matthew Barrett sits down with Dominican friar Fr. Gregory Pine to explore how virtue and happiness go hand in hand. Virtue is not some kind of dreadful obligation or duty. Instead, virtue facilitates happiness because it forms the soul to love the good until choosing good becomes natural and even joyful. During the conversation, they… Download Audio