The Biblical Vision of Wisdom and the Spiritual Life | Fr. Jordan Schmidt, O.P.

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🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This lecture was given on December 13, 2022 at Immaculate Conception Church, Washington, D.C. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Jordan Schmidt was born in Fargo, ND, and attended St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN for his undergraduate studies. After entering the Order of Preachers, he came to Washington DC to study theology, graduating from the PFIC in 2009 with an STB/MDiv in theology, and from CUA in 2012 with an STL in biblical theology. Upon his ordination to the priesthood, he was appointed associate pastor of St Mary’s parish in New Haven, CT where he served until 2013. Fr. Jordan next returned to the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC to pursue doctoral studies at CUA. Since earning his PhD in biblical studies in 2018, he has been teaching various courses in Sacred Scripture at the PFIC.

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0:56.0	It's always good to talk about wisdom.
0:59.0	I enjoy doing it because I wrote my dissertation on wisdom and a book on wisdom.
1:09.0	So I like wisdom.
1:11.6	It's a nice topic to talk about.
1:14.6	I want to start this evening with what I would call
1:20.6	the question of wisdom, what is it,
1:25.6	and then kind of, or maybe to better to say, what isn't it?
1:31.7	So to talk about some of the misconceptions about wisdom, and then to move from there to
1:39.0	looking at wisdom as something that we receive from the Holy Spirit and then we exercise by our
1:48.5	reading of Scripture, that we learn about wisdom through this exercise as being something
1:55.2	that is both practical. Like it's something that you're supposed to live. It's something that's supposed to affect
2:02.3	your daily life. But it's also something that's contemplative. It's something that can actually
2:08.4	inform your relationship with God and the way that you pray, the way that you interact with and are
2:15.1	related to God. So yeah, I would agree. It is an exceedingly important topic
2:21.7	and as exciting as economic and environmental concerns might be. I would put this probably just a few
2:29.2	pegs above that as far as importance for our human existence and what it means to be human beings
2:37.7	created by God. So to begin then, what is wisdom or what isn't wisdom? There is, I would begin with an
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