Podcast Description – Set 2: Augustine (Confessions VII.2), Aquinas (ST I.45.3), Justin Martyr (Dialogue with Trypho, Chapters 18–20)

In today’s episode, we continue Augustine’s journey in Book VII of Confessions, as he wrestles with his misconception of God as something spatial and divisible, realizing the absurdity of imagining God as “more present” in larger objects. In Summa Theologica I.45.3, Aquinas affirms that creation is not a change or motion but an entirely distinct act—bringing forth being itself without transformation from anything prior. Justin Martyr, in Dialogue with Trypho, explains why Christians do not observe the Jewish Law: not out of disrespect, but because they understand its purpose. Circumcision, Sabbath observance, and dietary restrictions were instituted not for their ow ...