The Christian Responses St. Gregory and St. Augustine to the Roman Empire | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.

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🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This lecture was given on October 23rd, 2023 at William and Mary. For more information on upcoming events, visit thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events. About the Speaker: Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., (Ph.D. Notre Dame) is associate professor of patristics and ancient languages at the Pontifical Faculty of the Dominican House of Studies where he serves as the director of the doctoral program. He has authored Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus (Oxford University Press, 2013) and The Power of Patristic Preaching: The Word in Our Flesh (Catholic University of America, 2023). His research appears in such journals as Augustinianum, Journal of the History of Ideas, and Vigiliae Christianae. Editor-in-chief of the academic journal The Thomist, Hofer is editor or co-editor of several volumes including The Oxford Handbook of Deification and The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's Sermons. He is presently at work on a book titled Peace in the Life and Teaching of Augustine of Hippo.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
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0:12.2	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
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0:23.6	Thank you very much. It's an honor to be here at William and Mary.
0:28.6	We'll begin with a reading from Matthew chapter 22 and a prayer.
0:32.6	Then the Pharisees went off and plotted how they might entrap Jesus in speech.
0:38.2	They sent their disciples to him with a Herodian saying,
0:40.9	Teacher, we know that you are a truthful man and that you teach the way of God in accordance
0:45.0	with the truth, and you are not concerned with anyone's opinion, for you do not regard
0:49.5	a person's status.
0:51.5	Tell us then, what is your opinion?
0:54.0	Is it lawful to pay the census tax to Caesar or not?
0:58.5	Knowing their malice, Jesus said, why are you testing me, you hypocrites? Show me the coin that
1:04.0	pays the census tax. Then they handed him the Roman coin. He said to them, whose image is this
1:10.7	and whose inscription? They replied,
1:13.7	Caesar's. At that, he said to them, then repay to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God,
1:21.1	what belongs to God. Let us pray. Almighty God, we thank you that everything is yours.
1:30.3	We ask you now to pour forth your Holy Spirit upon us, that we with your servants and our
1:34.8	teachers, St. Gregor of Nazanus and St. Augustine of Hippo, may have a greater understanding
1:40.3	of the empires of this earth and of your heavenly kingdom. We make this prayer in name of Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you
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