Long (45-70 mins)
Ethics
Roman Catholic
Is Free Will an Illusion? St. Thomas Aquinas and Human Action – Fr. Stephen Brock
Theologian
Stephen L Brock
Duration
55.59
Uploaded to YouTube
25 September 2024
Added to Database
21 November 2025
YouTube description
A lecture with Fr. Stephen Brock (Pontifical University of the Holy Cross) presented on April 10, 2024. Part of the Lumen Christi Institute's West Suburban Catholic Culture Series on Faith and Reason.
Americans prize freedom, of all kinds. Yet many today are being persuaded that there is no such thing as free will. It is a serious issue. If you are Christian, then you believe in free will. But can you answer the arguments against it? Can you even say with precision what it is? St. Thomas Aquinas can. He can also help greatly to answer those arguments and to do so in a way that believers and nonbelievers alike can understand.