St. Thomas Aquinas on Love in the Incarnation of God | Father Andrew Hofer, O.P.

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🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This lecture was given on March 8th, 2023, at West Virginia University. For more information about upcoming events, visit thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events. Speaker Bio: Fr. 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 a 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 of 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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1:09.3	We'll begin with John 316 in a prayer.
1:16.6	For God so loved the world that he gave his only son,
1:20.6	so that everyone who believes in him might not perish,
1:22.6	but might have eternal life.
1:24.6	Let us pray. All loving Father, we give you thanks and praise that you have given us your own Son to show us the depths of your love for us.
1:35.3	We ask you now to pour forth His Spirit upon us that we may know how we are called to be beloved in the beloved Son.
1:43.3	We make this prayer in the name of Jesus
1:44.8	Christ, your son, who lives and reigns with you in unity of the Holy Spirit, God forever
1:49.2	and ever. In the name of the Father and Son, the Holy Spirit. John 316 has a special
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