The Trinity at Christ's Baptism and the Institution of the First Sacrament | Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

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🗓️ 23 September 2022

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This lecture was given on September 20, 2022 at the Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas and the Angelicum. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website: www.thomisticinstitute.org The Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas and the Angelicum Thomistic Institute present the XI International Thomistic Congress. The general scientific objective of the XI International Thomistic Congress is to consider new perspectives in the study of Saint Thomas (interests, methods and results) in order to highlight the resources of the Thomistic tradition in contemporary theological and philosophical debates. The Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas and the Angelicum Thomistic Institute invite you to the XI International Thomistic Congress. It will be held at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome. A unique opportunity to share work, research and friendships with the best international specialists in the thought of Saint Thomas Aquinas. The Congress is under the Honorary Presidency of His Eminence Rev. Luis Cardinal Ladaria Ferrer, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The languages of the Congress are Italian, French, Spanish and English. Simultaneous translations will be provided for the plenary sessions for the in-person audience. The plenary sessions will also be live-streamed, but only in their original language. About the speaker: Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P., is the Director of the Thomistic Institute and Assistant Professor in Dogmatic Theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. He holds a J.D. from Yale Law School, a Ph.L. from the School of Philosophy of the Catholic University of America, and a doctorate in Sacred Theology from the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He entered the Order of Preachers in 2001, after having practiced constitutional law for several years as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also taught at The Catholic University of America Law School and at Providence College. He is the author of The Trinitarian Christology of St. Thomas Aquinas (Oxford University Press, 2016).

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Tamistic Institute.
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0:11.0	The title of this talk is the Trinity at Christ's baptism and the institution of the first sacrament.
0:18.0	Christ baptism by John in the Jordan,
0:21.3	the three persons of the Holy Trinity
0:23.1	are manifested clearly to the world for the first time.
0:27.3	A voice from heaven testifies that Jesus
0:30.1	is the father's beloved son, and the Holy Spirit
0:33.1	descends on Christ in the form of a dove.
0:36.6	St. Thomas Aquinas interprets this as manifesting two great and
0:41.8	foundational divine missions for the dispensation of salvation, the mission or the sending of the
0:48.7	son as man in the incarnation, and the concurrent mission or sending of the Holy Spirit to Christ as man,
0:56.3	who becomes the font of the spirit for the world.
1:00.7	In this paper, I propose to examine Christ's baptism, this event from the Gospels,
1:06.3	from the perspective of these divine missions, which is to say, as a case study in Aquinas'
1:13.2	Trinitarian Christology, as it unfolds into sacramental theology. So it has two parts. Part one
1:21.4	studies how Aquinas' treatment of Christ's baptism shows his Trinitarian Christology in action. The baptism manifests
1:31.6	Christ's divine identity as the sun, which necessarily entails the revelation of the three
1:38.2	divine persons, alerting us to the trinitarian structure of the incarnation itself. Part two then treats what I think is an underappreciated dimension of this mystery,
1:50.0	the Trinitarian exemplarity of Christ for the sacrament of baptism.
1:56.0	So part one, the Trinitarian Christology of Christ's baptism.
2:06.0	At his baptism, as I've mentioned, Christ is publicly revealed as the father's son.
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