Humanity's Original State | Prof. Reinhard Hütter

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🗓️ 13 March 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This lecture was given on January 27, 2023, at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., for the annual Aquinas Lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Dr. Reinhard Huetter is Ordinary Professor of Fundamental Theology at the School of Theology and Religious Studies of The Catholic University. Professor Huetter is a native of Lichtenfels, Germany. He received his Dr. theol. (summa cum laude) in 1990, and his Habilitation in 1995, both from the University of Erlangen. He taught for nine years theological ethics and systematic theology at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and for seventeen years systematic theology at Duke University Divinity School. In 2004, he and his wife entered into the full communion of the Catholic Church. His teaching and research focuses on fundamental theological questions of the relationship between faith and reason, nature and grace, revelation and faith, theology and philosophy, dogma and history, on questions of theological anthropology (grace and freedom), and the theology and epistemology of faith. He has an abiding interest in the thought of Thomas Aquinas and has, in more recent years, developed also an intense interest in the thought of John Henry Newman. Huetter is the author of numerous books, most recently Dust Bound for Heaven: Explorations in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas (2012) and Divine Happiness: Aquinas on the Journey to Beatitude, the Ultimate Human End (forthcoming 2018) and has contributed numerous chapters to handbooks and edited collections. He is presently working on a theological commentary on Psalm 119, a small book on John Henry Newman, and a theological treatise on Doctrine: Its Nature and Development.

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0:52.9	It is an uncontroversial fact that the Catholic Church as a whole is still very much living in the difficult process of receiving the teaching of the Second Vatican Council.
1:08.5	The Council's longest and in certain ways most complex document is the
1:14.0	pastoral constitution of the Church in the modern world, Goudiomit Space. And its arguably most
1:20.2	famous passage is Gaudiomid Space 22, Christ being the full revelation of man to man himself, as the English translation puts it.
1:31.1	This is what the Council fathers state.
1:34.8	Quote, the truth is that only in the mystery of the incarnate word does the mystery of man take on light.
1:45.5	For Adam, the first man, was a figure of him who was to come, namely Christ the Lord.
1:53.2	Christ, the final Adam, by the revelation of the mystery of the father and his love,
1:59.3	fully reveals man to man himself and makes his supreme
2:04.4	calling clear. He who is the image of the invisible God is himself the perfect man. To the sons of
2:14.9	Adam he restores the divine likeness which had been disfigured from the first sin onward."
2:24.3	According to the Council Fathers, in accord with the witness of the Holy Scriptures and of tradition, Christ's redemptive work, is a work of restoration.
2:38.2	Christ's redemptive work restores the divine likeness disfigured from the first sin onward.
2:46.7	Yet any restoration presupposes something lost and in need of restoration.
2:51.6	In the case of Christ's redemptive restoration of our divine likeness,
2:57.6	what is presupposed is an original state that antecedes the first sin,
3:03.6	the disfigurement of the divine likeness. This afternoon I wish to offer some theological reflections on a few aspects
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