Free Will and Obeying Mary (Bonus: How mysticism expands knowledge) – KBGF 23
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How does St. Maximilian's use of obedience connect to the Scotistic foundations? We explore this in Chapter 9 of The Theologian of Auschwitz by Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner with its editor, Dr. J. Isaac Goff.
We do this by looking at an early text of St. Maximilian Kolbe, then by working through texts of St. Maximilian that Fr. Peter Damian Fehlner orders into presenting the Scotistic foundation and structure of the thought of St. Maximilian. Finally, we discuss how and in what way authentic mystical experience can expand the range of knowledge of God beyond normal.
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00:00:00 Intro
00:02:00 Presentation
00:04:05 Distinctions: Indifference, Blind obedience, hypostatic union and union of wills
00:11:45 Reading a letter of St. Maximilian (KW 25, 56)
00:18:55 8 Points taken from this reading
00:19:00 Indifferentism vs Indifference of Will
00:21:10 Bad Connection
00:23:44 Resumed
00:25:30 Unconditional Obedience of God
00:26:50 Infinity of Knowledge in God
00:27:20 Unity in Willing in God and Creatures
00:27:40 Being as Good as heart of divine and all reality
00:28:20 Love as loving God as God loves himself
00:29:16 Perfect obedience only possible by grace
00:29:33 Incarnation in Marian Mode our example of this
00:30:20 In-existence: To be in the other
00:33:33 Grace and Powers of Soul: Thomist vs Franciscan
00:36:37 Spirit as quasi-Incarnate, what quasi means
00:37:55 Start looking at the citations of St. Max in Ch. 9
00:39:00 Successive Texts: Unlimited Consecration and the Will of the Immaculate
00:57:30 Transubstantiation into the Immaculate: Union of Created and Uncreated Wills
01:10:20 Dr. Goff comments on Sinlessness vs Sanctity
01:15:30 Return to Presentation
01:19:30 Scotistic Inspiration of St. Maximilian's Doctrine: Further Evidence
01:27:00 A Kolbean Key to Understanding “Quasi-Incarnation” and “Transubstantiation”
01:28:20 Goff Comments: Mary Present to Every Believer because Icon/Bearer of the Spirit
01:30:40 Return to Presentation
01:37:30 Goff on Distinction between Image of God and the Similitude in Grace
01:46:40 Return to Presentation
01:47:15 Fehlner responds to critics of Kolbe
01:49:40 Principle of Mariology: Charity and the Law of Action-Reaction Revisited
01:51:55 Goff on Resemblance of Father and Son, Of Jesus and Mary
02:05:00 Fra Charles on Muhlen and the Mediation of Mary
02:12:00 Return to Presentation
02:18:30 Move to discussion and Goff's Library
02:19:45 Dr. Goff's Critique of Kenotic Theology as forgetting the meaning of Infinity
02:23:20 Contemporary emphasis on Process
02:24:50 Divine Goodness, Generosity, Mercy
02:27:50 New Book on the Perpetual Virginity of Mary
02:28:45 The esctatic-mystical as expanding the range of comprehension, of reason
02:33:30 This is intuitive and infused, not new revelation
02:36:35 John of the Cross on communicating the mystical
02:40:00 What is Knowledge itself
02:41:30 This in Song: Dirt Poor Robins, Those Who Sojourn
02:43:40 Planning next time
Ave Maria!
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