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8 episodes in this season

Life, Times, and Culture

51 min

Approach to God

51 min

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The Attributes of God

55 min

The Trinity

53 min

Doctrine of Creation

49 min

Providence and the Problem of Evil

55 min

Aquinas's Anthropology

55 min

Aquinas on Ethics & Happiness

48 min

Thomas Aquinas

TV Series

202655m

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The Attributes of God

Season 1 · Episode 3 · May 15, 2026

In lecture three, Robert Barron explores Thomas Aquinas’s understanding of God’s attributes beyond his famous Five Ways. Through the via negativa (negative way) and via positiva (positive way), Aquinas develops a vision of divine simplicity in which God’s essence and existence are one, making God not simply a being among beings but “ipsum esse subsistens” (the subsistent act of being itself). The discussion concludes by examining God's perfection, goodness, immutability, eternity, and knowledge, demonstrating how these attributes flow from the principle of divine simplicity and reveal God as the ultimate ground of being who draws all creation back to himself.

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Thomas Aquinas

TV Series

202655m

DocumentaryTalk

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The Attributes of God

Season 1 · Episode 3 · May 15, 2026

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