Biblical Illuminations of Christ's Revelatory Activity | Fr. Jordan Schmidt, O.P.

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Jordan Schmidt examines how light is used in Scripture to represent God's revelation, starting with the Old Testament's portrayal of God's creative power and wisdom. He then traces the development of this imagery in the New Testament, where light becomes associated with Jesus Christ as the fullness of God's revelation. Finally, he discusses how this light imagery relates to the ultimate union with God in the New Jerusalem, where the saved will dwell in God's unapproachable light.

This lecture was given on July 21st, 2024, at The Dominican House of Studies. This publication was made possible through the support of Grant 63391 from the John Templeton Foundation. The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the John Templeton Foundation.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. Jordan Schmidt graduated with a BA in English and Philosophy from St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN in 2002. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2005 and after completing his theological studies (STL and Mdiv), he was ordained a priest in 2012. Fr. Jordan initially served as associate pastor of St Mary’s parish in New Haven, CT, and subsequently returned to the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC to pursue doctoral studies at CUA, ultimately earning his PhD in biblical studies in 2018. He is currently an assistant professor of Sacred Scripture at the PFIC where he teaches various Old Testament courses, including survey courses on the Pentateuch, Prophets, and Wisdom literature as well as seminar courses on biblical inspiration, eschatology and apocalyptic literature, theological history, and creation theology.

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0:22.3	at to mystic institute.org. One of the things that popped into my head as I was preparing this talk
0:29.7	was quite simply the phrase Lumen de Lumine. Okay, in roughly, let's say, two hours, give or take, maybe two hours, 15 minutes, those of you who participate in Mass here will utter the words, I believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, born of the Father before, all ages, God from God, light from light.
0:52.9	That's a profession of faith, belief. It's something that obtains,
0:59.0	it reveals to us and is supposed to be a point of meditation on truth about who Jesus Christ is,
1:07.0	who God is. And this is the first time that I've ever thought about that in a sustained way for preparing for this talk.
1:15.6	And, you know, light from light, why do we have that?
1:17.6	The short answer is that it's biblical language.
1:21.6	We receive the language of faith, the articles of faith from the Bible. And if you want to look at it
1:33.8	this way, it's in some respects the creed is reducing down like a reduction sauce, all of the
1:42.2	truth of the Bible, putting it into articles of faith so that we can confess
1:47.1	it, consume it, meditate on it in one statement. So what I would like to do in this talk is to talk
1:56.9	about light from light. Why and how does the Bible use this language to refer to God?
2:07.7	And hopefully that can be a way of thinking about in a different way, perhaps, how we are meditating
2:13.7	on God and trying to know God. And so I would just begin with a few general comments about how we read the Bible as Catholics
2:22.3	and some of the belief about the scripture as Catholics that we would hold,
2:27.3	and then move into some of the biblical imagery that we received from the Old Testament,
2:31.5	especially Genesis 1, and then move into some of the statements
2:36.9	about Jesus Christ and how we can even, in some respects, gloss over the light imagery that's
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