Creation In St. Augustine's Confessions | Father Andrew Hofer, O.P.

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🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This lecture was given on September 11, 2023, at the University of Florida For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Originally from a farm in Kansas, Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., is a priest in the Dominican Province of St. Joseph who teaches on the pontifical faculty of the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC where he is editor-in-chief of The Thomist. He has 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 (The Catholic University of America Press, 2023). He is editor or co-editor of several volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Deification, The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's Sermons, Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers, Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology, and Thomas Aquinas as Spiritual Teacher.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Timistic 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.
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0:21.7	visit us at to mystic institute.org.
0:26.6	Thank you very much.
0:27.3	It's an honor to be here at the University of Florida.
0:30.5	We'll begin with the first words of the Bible
0:35.1	in St. Augustine's way of reading the Bible and then a prayer.
0:40.3	In the beginning, God created heaven and earth.
0:46.3	Let us pray.
0:48.3	Almighty God, we praise you that you created all things in the beginning, in your son, in wisdom.
1:00.0	We ask you now to pour forth the Holy Spirit upon us, that we with your servant, our teacher, St. Augustine, may marvel at creation and rise up to you.
1:13.6	We make this prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, to a Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with
1:17.6	you and the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever.
1:20.6	Amen.
1:21.6	Our Lady, seat of wisdom.
1:23.6	Pray for us.
1:24.6	In the name of the Father and the Son the Holy Spirit.
1:28.3	This talk is titled Creation in St. Augustine's Confessions.
1:33.3	I'd like for us first to review the Confessions, this masterwork of St. Augustine of Hippo,
1:39.3	to look particularly at the opening of the Confessions, and then I will articulate 10 teachings
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