Rejecting the Demonic, the Heretical, and the Ludicrous | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.

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🗓️ 22 November 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This lecture was given on April 15th, 2023, at the West Coast Intellectual Retreat on Divinization. For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events About the Speaker: r. Andrew Hofer, O.P., grew up as the youngest of ten children on a farm in Kansas, and studied history, philosophy, and classics at Benedictine College. He then went to St Andrews, Scotland for a Master of Letters in medieval history. He entered the Order of Preachers as a son of the Province of St. Joseph, and was ordained a priest in 2002. After finishing his S.T.L. and serving as an associate pastor for a brief time, he was sent to Kenya as a missionary for two years. He taught at the Tangaza College of The Catholic University of Eastern Africa and other institutions in Nairobi. He returned to the U.S. and completed the Ph.D. in theology at the University of Notre Dame, with the primary area of history of Christianity (specializing in patristic theology with additional studies in medieval theology) and the secondary area of systematic theology. His research appears in such journals as Vigiliae Christianae, Augustinianum, International Journal of Systematic Theology, New Blackfriars, Nova et Vetera, Pro Ecclesia, The Thomist, Communio, and Angelicum and in books published by Catholic University America Press and Ignatius Press. He is the author of Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus (Oxford Early Christian Studies), Oxford University Press, 2013, and the editor of Divinization: Becoming Icons of Christ through the Liturgy, Hillenbrand Books, 2015.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Thomistic Institute podcast.
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0:23.6	We'll begin with the beginning of the third chapter of the book of Genesis and a prayer.
0:31.6	Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the animals that the Lord God had made.
0:35.6	The serpent asked the woman,
0:38.2	Did God really tell you not to eat from any of the trees in the garden? The woman answered the
0:45.0	serpent, we may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden. It is only about the fruit of the tree
0:49.8	in the middle of the garden that God said, you shall not eat it or even touch it lest you die.
0:55.4	But the servant said to the woman, you certainly will not die. No, God knows well that the
1:01.1	moment you eat of it, your eyes will be opened and you will be like gods who know what is good
1:06.0	and what is bad. The woman saw that the tree was good for food, pleasing to the eyes, and desirable for gaining
1:13.3	wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it, and she also gave some to her husband,
1:18.9	who was with her, and he ate it. Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they
1:25.0	realized that they were naked, So they sewed fig leaves together
1:29.1	and made loin claws for themselves. Let us pray.
1:37.8	Almighty God, we thank you for your intention to deify us. We ask you now to pour forth your Holy Spirit upon us, that we may see
1:48.7	the truthfulness of your intention and the falsity of those who speak against you. We make this prayer
1:57.7	of the name of Jesus Christ, Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in unity of the Holy Spirit, God forever and ever.
2:03.9	Our Lady Queen of Heaven.
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