Off-Campus Conversations, Ep. 005: Prof. Nina Heereman on the Book of Revelation

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🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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How can we read and interpret the Book of Revelation? Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with scripture scholar Prof. Nina Heereman about her latest Thomistic Institute lecture, "Finding Consolation in the Book of Revelation." Finding Consolation in the Book of Revelation w/ Fr. Gregory Pine and Prof. Nina Heereman (Off-Campus Conversations) You can listen to the original lecture here: https://soundcloud.com/thomisticinstitute/finding-consolation-in-the-book-of-revelation-prof-nina-heereman For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org About the Speaker: Dr. Heereman was born and raised in a devout Catholic family in Germany. Originally trained as a lawyer, Dr. Heereman experienced a deep conversion experience at the 1997 World Youth Day. This conversion led her to discern a vocation as a lay woman “celibate for the sake of the kingdom of heaven” and also led her to theological studies so as to “consecrate [her] life to the study and teaching of the Word of God”. She received an STB from the Pontifical Gregorian University, an SSL from the Pontifical Biblical Institute, and the very rare SSD from the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem and the Université de Fribourg. Her doctoral thesis “Behold King Solomon on the Day of His Wedding”: A Symbolic-Diachronic Reading of Song 3:6-11 and 4:12-5:1 has been heralded by scholars as a profound contribution to scholarship on the Song of Songs. Dr. Heereman is presently an Assistant Professor of Sacred Scripture at St. Patrick’s Seminary and University in Menlo Park, CA.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Father Gregory Pine, joining you again here on the Timistic Institute podcast, as has become our bi-weekly custom.
0:18.7	We're following up with one of the presenters who has spoken at a
0:22.0	Domestic Institute University Campus or to Mystic Institute intellectual retreat or conference
0:27.9	as a way by which to continue the conversation and to ask those questions which may have been left
0:33.2	unasked on account of the fact that time is limited and we as human beings can only ask so many
0:38.7	questions before we have to go to bed. So I'm very delighted today to be joined by Dr. Nina Harriman.
0:44.9	So thanks so much for joining today, Dr. Harriman. Thank you for having me, Father Gregory.
0:50.2	Hey, it's my joy. So many of our listeners will be familiar with you and your work on the basis of the lectures that you've given for the Timistic Institute. But for those who don't know you, would you just say a word of introduction, who you are, where you're from, what you're currently working on?
1:04.4	So my name is, as you already said, Nina Heerman. I'm from Germany, as you will pick up from my accent. I was born and brought
1:12.1	up in Germany, originally trained to become a lawyer, but shortly after the bar exam,
1:16.9	experienced, I was always born a Catholic, but it was around the bar exam that my faith
1:25.0	finally really came alive, so I was like an older vocation,
1:29.3	and came alive through a deep encounter with the Lord through the scriptures. It was in the
1:35.4	scriptures or listening to real preachers, preaching the Word of God that I, for the first time in
1:41.7	my life, realized what it means that Christ has risen and that God is love and sends us his Holy Spirit, and that was so life transforming that I, for the first time in my life, realized what it means that Christ has risen and that God is love and sins is Holy Spirit.
1:46.4	And that was so life transforming that I thought something is wrong with our church.
1:51.5	I mean, it's not a secret that there's something wrong with the German church.
1:54.5	And maybe had I looked across the border, I would have had a different diagnosis.
1:59.4	But, you know, here I was 27 years of age and thinking
2:02.1	I've been a Sunday going Christian my entire life and nobody ever preached the word of God to me.
2:07.8	And here come these Indians. It was a retreat preached by Indian preachers who just do nothing
2:13.1	but preaching the word of God for a week and I encounter the risen Lord. So how do we get the word of God
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