God Crucified: Thinking About the Incarnation at the Foot of the Cross | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.

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🗓️ 23 December 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Merry Christmas from the Thomistic Institute! This week, we are reposting some of our favorite talks related to Christmas and the Incarnation of our Lord. This talk was delivered on March 30, 2021, at North Carolina State University. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org About the Speaker: Father Andrew Hofer, O.P., is Associate Professor of Patristics and Ancient Languages and Director of the Doctoral Program at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC. He is the author of Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus (Oxford University Press, 2013), co-author of A Living Sacrifice: Guidance for Men Discerning Religious Life (Vianney Publications, 2019), editor of Divinization: Becoming Icons of Christ through the Liturgy (Hillenbrand Books, 2015), and co-editor of Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers (Sapientia Press, 2019) and Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology (Sapientia Press, 2021). His present projects include co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Deification and The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Sermons as well as finishing his book The Word in Our Flesh: A Return to Patristic Preaching, funded by the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Teacher-Scholar grant.

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1:34.8	Now, I'd like for us to begin this talk on God crucified, thinking about the incarnation for the cross by situating ourselves precisely in how we are now experiencing Holy Week. We are soon coming to the sacred Tridwam. And I have two quotations from Greek fathers of the church to help us think about who it is that is on the cross for us.
1:46.7	The first quotation is from St. Milito of Sardis, who was a second century Greek father, and I have on my screen here what is his conclusion to his work called on Pasca. Paska is this celebration of Easter, but it's also the Passover, which includes basically
1:55.4	what we would call the pascal mystery, so including the suffering, death, and resurrection altogether.
2:02.1	St. Melito Sardis at the end of his on Paska says, he it is who made the heaven and the
2:07.1	earth and formed humanity in the beginning, who was proclaimed through the law and the prophets,
2:11.9	who took flesh from a virgin, who was hung on a tree, who was buried in earth, who was raised
2:17.2	from the dead and ascended to the heights of heaven,
2:19.7	who sits at the right hand of the Father, who has the power to save all things,
2:23.4	through whom the Father acted from the beginning and forever.
2:26.0	This is the Alpha and Omega.
2:27.6	This is the beginning and the end, the ineffable beginning and the incomprehensible end.
2:31.9	This is the Christ.
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