Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers for the Renewal of Theology | Fr. Andrew Hofer OP

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🗓️ 12 December 2018

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This lecture was given at Duke by Fr. Andrew Hofer OP (Dominican House of Studies) on October 25th, 2018.

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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 the 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 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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0:00.0	I'm so glad to have this opportunity to speak to you on Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Father.
0:05.3	And this is, as Philip mentioned, coming from a book called Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers that I'm co-editing.
0:12.9	On that front page, you'll see the genesis of the book.
0:16.1	We had a conference down at Ave Maria, Florida in January on this theme, and I was overwhelmed by the response and the
0:24.8	quality of the papers. So we selected 12 papers for the books chapters, and so each one, I think,
0:34.7	is excellent. I just want to mention a few so that way you can see in terms of the kind of work that's being done.
0:40.3	Sometimes people wonder about origin and his reception in the West.
0:45.3	Thomas Aquinas cites origin over a thousand times.
0:50.3	He most likely commissioned the commentary on John translation, because as another Dominican
1:00.0	has shown Father Timothy Balama, nobody else quoted origin on John in the 13th century.
1:08.6	And so just in terms of thinking about Thomas Aquinas' keen appreciation for
1:13.7	origin, both in terms of his truthfulness, his goodness, and also the things that he got
1:20.8	wrong. So in terms of that, Caledonatolios, who has done so much work on Athanasius, has a chapter on comparing
1:30.0	Athanasius and Thomas Aquinas concerning the grammar of salvation, the salvific work of Christ.
1:36.1	So it's just excellent. Father John Baptist Koo did his dissertation under Father Gilin Marie in
1:43.8	Freeborg on God the Father and Thomas Aquinas,
1:47.0	and it was just fascinating for me to read John Baptist Cus' insights comparing Gregory of Nazianzus and Thomas Aquinas and God the Father.
1:56.6	Okay, so just in terms of how he saw things in Thomas that otherwise he would not have had,
2:01.7	and then he saw things in Gregor Nazanus that I can tell you some Greworian scholars do not see.
2:07.8	Okay, so just in terms of the great riches here, Marcus Pleston, in terms of Thomas Quineas and John of Damascus on the light of the Transfiguration,
2:20.4	Jane Sloan Peters in terms of Theophilic of Akrid, so a figure that was beloved by Thomas
2:27.0	in terms of his Catana, Joseph Warico, the Greek Fathers. So just again and again, just, I think,
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