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Creation and the Fall in the New Testament | Fr. Stephen Ryan, O.P.

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🗓️ 15 May 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This lecture was given on December 2nd, 2023, at the Dominican House of Studies.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. Stephen Ryan, O.P. (Dominican House of Studies) was born and raised in Boston and entered the Order of Preachers in 1987. He was ordained a priest in 1993 and, on completion of doctoral studies in Scripture at Harvard University, was assigned to the Dominican House of Studies in 2000. He teaches courses on the Old Testament as well as biblical and early Christian languages.

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0:00.0

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0:06.2

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0:13.1

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0:19.5

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0:28.5

He shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

0:31.8

Psalm 130, verse 8, creation of fall in the New Testament.

0:36.3

There's something radically new in the new covenant established in the blood of Christ.

0:42.5

And having been baptized into Christ, we serve God now not under the old written code,

0:48.0

but as St. Paul says, in the new life of the spirit, Romans 7.6.

0:57.8

Erasmo Leverameticakis makes this point forcefully.

1:04.1

Christ did not come merely to teach a new doctrine about how we should behave or to set an example of selflessness. Christ came above all to perform a deed, the destruction of death, and the establishment of an everlasting kingdom of life.

1:16.4

And this deed constitutes him as the firstborn of a new creation, Colossians 115.

1:24.4

If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.

1:28.4

2 Corinthians 517.

1:30.5

This is from Erasmol-Levi-Maricakis' commentary on Matthew.

1:37.1

And it's called, I think, the fire of the word.

1:41.6

Anyway, it's a four-volume commentary in Matthew, Ignatius Press, excellent.

1:47.0

The first thing to say by way of introduction is that the radical newness of the New Testament

1:52.9

is rooted in and flows from the Old Testament, which is present and taken up in a variety of

1:59.3

ways in the New Testament.

2:01.7

In Chart Cathedral's North Transcept, the four evangelists are depicted sitting on the shoulders

2:09.1

of the four major prophets.

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