Fighting over Jesus in the First Two Centuries of the Church | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.

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🗓️ 26 April 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This lecture was given on February 16th, 2024, at St. Joseph's in Greenwich Village.

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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 Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.2	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 Tomistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:19.5	To learn more and to attend these events, visit us at
0:22.5	to mystic institute.org. This talk is fighting over Jesus in the first two centuries of the church.
0:34.2	The earliest Christological debates and why they matter today. And I started with this
0:39.4	passage from Matthew 10 because I wanted especially to get your attention about the sword that Jesus
0:45.4	mentions. Do not think I have come to bring peace upon the earth. I have come to bring not peace,
0:50.9	but the sword. And then he talks about division. Well, we Christians want to be
0:58.0	Christians that follow Jesus, and we want to understand what he gives us. We want to live out the
1:06.2	good news. What is the sword? What is a sword not?
1:16.4	And so I want us to think about how on the night before Jesus died,
1:21.1	after he gave us his own body, blood, soul, and divinity in instituting the Most Holy Eucharist,
1:24.4	he went out into the garden and he started this agony, this agony. And then one of his
1:33.4	own friends, one of the closest friends, Judas, an apostle, was there to betray him. And Jesus then is being taken after his agony in the garden to be led away to suffer and die for us.
1:55.0	Luke 22, while he was still speaking, a crowd approach and in front was one of the 12, a man named Judas.
2:02.0	He went up to Jesus to kiss him.
2:05.5	Jesus said to him, Judas, are you betraying the son of man with a kiss?
2:11.2	His disciples realized what was about to happen, and they asked,
2:15.2	Lord, shall we strike with a sword?
2:19.2	And one of them struck the high priest's servant and cut off his right ear. But Jesus said in reply, stop no more of this.
2:25.6	Then he touched the servant's ear and healed him. Jesus is our healer.
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