The Priesthood in the Church Fathers, Aquinas, and Beyond | Father Andrew Hofer, O.P.

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🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 29 minutes

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This lecture was given at the Catholic University of America on May 16, 2023 as part of the Thomistic Institute symposium titled "Toward a Fundamental Theology of the Priesthood." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., is Associate Professor and Director of the Doctoral Program at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception, Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC. His research appears in Augustinianum, The Journal of the History of Ideas, Nova et Vetera, Pro Ecclesia, Studia Patristica, The Thomist, Vigiliae Christianae, and other journals and volume collections. He is the author of Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus (Oxford University Press); the editor of Divinization: Becoming Icons of Christ through the Liturgy (Hillenbrand Books); co-author of A Living Sacrifice: Guidance for Men Discerning Religious Life (Vianney Publications), and co-editor of Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers (Sapientia Press) and Thomas Aquinas and the Crisis of Christology (Sapientia Press). He is presently co-editing The Oxford Handbook of Deification and The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's Sermons, and he is finishing his book funded by a Calvin Institute of Christian Worship Teacher-Scholar grant, The Word in Our Flesh: The Power of Patristic Preaching.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:05.8	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:12.2	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:18.2	To learn more and to attend these events, visit us at
0:21.6	Thomistic Institute.org.
0:24.6	Our next panelist is Father Andrew Hofer, a Dominican priest. He entered the Dominican
0:29.6	order in 1995 and was ordained a priest in 2002. He earned his doctorate from the University of Notre Dame.
0:38.3	He is currently an associate professor of patristics and ancient languages
0:43.3	at the Pontifical faculty at the Dominican House of Studies.
0:47.3	He is also the editor of many volumes, which I will not name here,
0:52.3	but he is also the editor of the Thomist, which, if I dare say, is a leading
0:57.0	journal of theology and the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas.
1:02.0	Please welcome, Father Andrew Hofer.
1:09.0	Thank you very much, Father Petrie.
1:11.5	It's an honor to be with you.
1:13.4	My talk is titled, Witnesses to Sacred Tradition,
1:17.1	the Priesthood in the Fathers of the Church, St. Thomas Aquinas, and beyond.
1:24.1	My thesis is this.
1:26.6	Tradition goes back to the Trinitarian handing over of the personal, divine truth and love
1:32.3	that the church receives and hands on from generation to generation, primarily through the sacramental life.
1:39.3	By going back to the fathers of the church, the privileged witnesses of sacred tradition, and to the
1:45.5	common doctor of the church, St. Thomas Aquinas, priests can realize more that they have an
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