Fr Cajetan Cuddy OP joins David Hahn to tell how reading Reformed theologians as a teenager led him to Aquinas, the Catholic Church and the Dominican Order. He explains why God holding all the cards does not compete with human freedom, what that means for confession and evangelisation, and why he calls Thomism "intellectual monasticism". They also discuss why modern relativism leaves us isolated, where Aquinas got things wrong, whether he was anti-mystical and where to begin with the Summa. New episodes of The David Hahn Show air every week, so subscribe and hit the bell for more.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:41 From Calvinist to Dominican
7:04 Do Catholics believe in predestination?
16:37 Why evangelise if God predestines?
18:38 Thomism as intellectual monasticism
24:35 Aquinas on a modern campus
33:15 Relativism and thought crimes
41:33 What Aquinas got wrong
45:13 What his critics get wrong
50:37 Where to start with Aquinas

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