Destruction and Transformation of the Cosmos in the Book of Revelation | Fr. Jordan Schmidt, O.P.

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🗓️ 28 February 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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This lecture was given on December 2, 2022, at the Thomistic Institute's West Coast Intellectual Retreat entitled, "The Eschaton: An Intellectual Retreat on the End of the World." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Jordan Schmidt was born in Fargo, ND, and attended St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN for his undergraduate studies. After entering the Order of Preachers, he came to Washington DC to study theology, graduating from the PFIC in 2009 with an STB/MDiv in theology, and from CUA in 2012 with an STL in biblical theology. Upon his ordination to the priesthood, he was appointed associate pastor of St Mary’s parish in New Haven, CT where he served until 2013. Fr. Jordan next returned to the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC to pursue doctoral studies at CUA. Since earning his PhD in biblical studies in 2018, he has been teaching various courses in Sacred Scripture at the PFIC.

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0:58.3	I chose the subject of this talk.
1:06.0	I think it's very appropriate considering the fact that we've been reading the book of Revelation at mass quite a bit.
1:13.6	The Book of Revelation is the most complete statement about the end that we have in the scriptural canon. And it's also a text that in reading this, during this first part of Advent,
1:22.5	can prepare ourselves for the second coming, the coming of Christ in time at the end of time. So I thought that this
1:32.2	would be a very appropriate book to speak about in relation to this, the retreat theme. And no doubt
1:41.7	you've maybe if you've been to Mass in the past couple weeks and during daily Mass, you've noticed that this book isn't normal.
1:51.0	It's weird.
1:53.0	Okay, so we have beasts running around coming out of the sea.
1:57.0	We have different kinds of insects assailing people. There are little locusts,
2:03.9	but these aren't any ordinary locusts. These are locusts with breastplates of male,
2:10.1	and they have helmets and vicious teeth that sting like scorpions. We have a whole bunch of
2:16.6	different dragons that are sweeping stars
2:19.4	out of the sky, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And if anybody would read this book, they would be
2:28.1	asking what the heck. If they didn't already know that it was scripture, it would be difficult
2:33.2	to make sense of what's going on
2:35.2	with this book. So what I want to do at the outset is talk a little bit about Catholic interpretation
2:44.7	of the Bible, how Catholics are asked to read the Bible, and how we can fruitfully approach such a seemingly strange book
2:53.6	in order to glean spiritual fruit from it. It depends heavily upon our approach as a Catholic Church to the Scripture.
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