The Motives of the Incarnation: Why Did God Become Man? | Prof. Paul Gondreau

Merry Christmas and happy new year from the Thomistic Institute! This week, we are reposting some of our favorite talks related to Christmas and the Incarnation of our Lord. This talk was given at the University of Oklahoma on September 11, 2018. For information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Dr. Paul Gondreau received his S.T.D. from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland in 2000. He teaches and publishes in the areas of moral theology, with an emphasis on marriage, Christology, and sacraments, with a specialization in the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. He is also an associate editor of the journal Nova et Vetera. Dr. Gondreau’s dissertation, written under Fr. Jean-Pierre Torrell, OP, was published as The Passions of Christ’s Soul in the Theology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Aschendorff, 2002; reprinted University of Scranton Press, 2009). He is currently working on a monograph on a Thomistic account of the meaning and purpose of human sexuality.