Augustine's Significance for Theorists on War, Justice, and Peace | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.

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🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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This lecture was given on June 10th, 2024, at the Catholic University of America.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., (Ph.D. Notre Dame) is professor of patristics and ancient languages at the Pontifical Faculty of the Dominican House of Studies where he serves as the director of the doctoral program. He authored Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus (Oxford University Press, 2013) and The Power of Patristic Preaching: The Word in Our Flesh (Catholic University of America, 2023). He co-authored A Living Sacrifice: Guidance for Men Discerning Religious Life (Vianney Vocations, 2019). Editor-in-chief of the academic journal The Thomist, Hofer is editor or co-editor of several volumes including The Oxford Handbook of Deification, The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's Sermons, and Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers. He enjoys speaking with students about their theological and spiritual questions.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Thomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.8	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:13.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:19.1	To learn more and to attend these events, visit us at
0:22.7	to mystic institute.org.
0:25.5	This talk, the first of four talks on St. Augustine,
0:29.7	is titled, Augustine's significance for theorists on war,
0:33.6	justice, and peace, ransacking theology.
0:36.9	So I'm delighted to be here with you in Chivitas Day.
0:40.3	And I thought that this opening talk of the series of four on Augustine,
0:44.7	which begins each of these four days of Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
0:50.5	would set the scene for why bother going back to thinking about the question of
0:56.0	can war be just with St. Augustine?
0:59.2	So that this talk is more general and an overview of the work on St. Augustine through the week,
1:06.6	and in some ways, St. Augustine's thinking is foundational for Christian thinking about the question,
1:12.1	Can War Be Just?
1:14.1	So this talk is covering a few different areas.
1:17.5	First, why St. Augustine of Hippo?
1:19.9	What's the big deal about Augustine?
1:22.1	And particularly looking at his thought concerning peace.
1:25.4	Then from that particular question, can war be just, why Augustine's
1:30.2	thought matters? And we'll look especially at how St. Augustine has influenced St. Thomas
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