Biology, Geology, and . . . Theology? Theology as Science | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.

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🗓️ 12 May 2022

⏱️ 58 minutes

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You can view Fr. Hofer's handout here: https://tinyurl.com/2p9c8h72 This lecture was given on February 3, 2022 at Queens University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., is Associate Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC. His research appears in Augustinianum, The Journal of the History of Ideas, Nova et Vetera, Pro Ecclesia, Studia Patristica, The Thomist, Vigiliae Christianae, and other journals and volume collections. He is the author of Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus (Oxford University Press); the editor of Divinization: Becoming Icons of Christ through the Liturgy (Hillenbrand Books); co-author of A Living Sacrifice: Guidance for Men Discerning Religious Life (Vianney Publications), and co-editor of Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers (Sapientia Press) and Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology (Sapientia Press). He is presently co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Deification and The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's Sermons, and he is finishing his book funded by a Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Teacher-Scholar grant, The Word in Our Flesh: The Power of Patristic Preaching.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Thomistic Institute.
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0:11.3	I maintain that theology is a science, which may surprise some who are used to thinking about
0:17.4	sciences as subjects like biology and geology. In order to argue for theology
0:22.5	as science, we will have three steps in this evening's lecture. First, we'll think about the
0:27.5	definition of science. What is a science? Then second, we will think with St. Thomas Aquinas
0:34.7	about the meaning of what he calls soccer doctrine,
0:38.1	sacred teaching as a science, and show how theology has qualities of other sciences.
0:45.0	Third, we will connect how just as those who study certain sciences need particular aptitudes,
0:51.0	virtues, and conditions.
0:52.8	So to theologians require certain aptitudes, virtues, and conditions, so to theologians require certain aptitudes, virtues,
0:55.9	and conditions to do their work well. After the lecture, we'll have some time for questions
1:01.5	and answers and all sorts of discussion. We begin first with simply science. What's the science?
1:08.6	The English word science derives from the Latin word chiencia.
1:13.3	Ciancia comes from the Latin verb,
1:15.9	Shio.
1:16.5	I know.
1:17.9	The term sciencia means knowledge.
1:21.6	Now, there are different kinds of chiencia,
1:23.6	different kinds of topics of knowledge and systems or disciplines of knowledge.
1:28.3	Now in the university today, you can think about what disciplines are called sciences.
1:35.3	Sometimes people will talk about hard sciences or soft sciences.
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