Scripture as a Source of Wisdom in Catholic Theology | Fr. Jordan Schmidt, O.P.

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🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Father Jordan Schmidt discusses the concept of wisdom in Catholic theology, focusing on its definition, its relationship to knowledge, and how it can be acquired and exercised through the study of scripture, particularly wisdom literature in the Bible.

This lecture was given on November 1st, 2024, at St. Albert's Priority.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. Jordan Schmidt graduated with a BA in English and Philosophy from St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN in 2002. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2005 and after completing his theological studies (STL and Mdiv), he was ordained a priest in 2012. Fr. Jordan initially served as associate pastor of St Mary’s parish in New Haven, CT, and subsequently returned to the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC to pursue doctoral studies at CUA, ultimately earning his PhD in biblical studies in 2018. He is currently an assistant professor of Sacred Scripture at the PFIC where he teaches various Old Testament courses, including survey courses on the Pentateuch, Prophets, and Wisdom literature as well as seminar courses on biblical inspiration, eschatology and apocalyptic literature, theological history, and creation theology.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.8	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 Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:19.1	To learn more and to attend these events,
0:21.7	visit us at to mystic institute.org. The goal before us in these talks is to think a little bit
0:28.7	about what wisdom is, and we're looking at a particular kind of wisdom, wisdom literature in the
0:36.1	Bible. So the first talk I want to just introduce and
0:40.7	lay out some of these ideas. What is wisdom? If you're going to, you know, reflect on,
0:46.9	contemplate what wisdom is, we want to try to define it, describe it a little bit. And then also
0:52.6	what is wisdom, literature? What is the Bible?
0:56.7	So just some very basic things in this opening lecture and how we think about these terms that
1:03.1	are maybe used in different ways that are not always very clear. And so what I would like to begin with is a brief anecdote about my undergraduate days at St. John's
1:19.4	University.
1:20.1	So this goes to the question, what is wisdom?
1:23.8	What do you think of when you think of wisdom?
1:27.2	And for me, as an undergraduate when I was
1:29.9	22 23 even you know when I joined the Dominicans actually
1:35.0	Wisdom I tended to think about as something that was very
1:41.2	Esoteric you know kind of nebulous out there, not something that was very familiar.
1:47.0	So, for example, if I would have thought about my grandma praying a rosary in the Catholic
1:53.2	church, not the first thing that came to mind when I thought about wisdom.
1:58.2	All right.
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