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170 - Art Participates in God's Governance - Bradley Elliott, O.P.

The Catholic Culture Podcast

Fr. Bradley Elliott, a professional drummer turned Dominican friar, joins the podcast to discuss his book, The Shape of the Artistic Mind: A Search for the Metaphysical Link Between Art and Morals in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas. Themes include: * Man's capacity to participate in God's creative activity and governance of the world * How human artistic activity not only imitates but enhance nature * The combination of Aristotelian and neo-Platonic streams in St. Thomas's theory of art * How Aristotle redeemed the notion of nature from Plato, and Plotinus redeemed the notion of imitation from Plato * Comparing the virtue of art to the mortal and speculative virtues Buy the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CHG6YPPG?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860 SIGN UP for Catholic Culture's newsletter: https://www.catholicculture.org/newsletters DONATE to make this show possible! http://catholicculture.org/donate/audio