Thomas Aquinas on the Nicene Creed | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.

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🗓️ 6 June 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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This lecture was given on February 8th, 2025, at Dominican House of Studies.

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About the Speaker:

Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., (Ph.D. Notre Dame) is 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 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). He co-authored A Living Sacrifice: Guidance for Men Discerning Religious Life (Vianney Vocations, 2019). Editor-in-chief of the academic journal The Thomist, Hofer is editor or co-editor of several volumes including The Oxford Handbook of Deification, The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's Sermons, and Thomas Aquinas and the Greek Fathers. He enjoys speaking with students about their theological and spiritual questions.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.2	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:12.7	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
0:19.0	To learn more and to attend these events, visit us at Thomisticinstitute.org.
0:25.9	This lecture is titled Thomas Aquinas on the Nicene Creed.
0:30.0	I have a handout.
0:31.0	The handout is long.
0:32.4	The lecture will not take up the entire hour.
0:36.3	I will give time for Q&A. And so I just want us to think at the
0:40.7	beginning, why study St. Thomas Aquinas on the Nicene Creed? And I give two points here. One reason
0:47.7	is to have a focal point in the study of Nicaea in Christian Theologies. This year of 2025 is the
0:54.0	1700th anniversary of Nicaa, and it would be
0:56.7	very appropriate then to have that concentration of Nicaea within Thomas as a theologian.
1:03.7	And there have been many kinds of reception, reinterpretation, and ignoring theological strategies
1:09.1	regarding Nicaa through the centuries.
1:11.3	We're blessed here at this conference to have two leading interpreters of the Nicene faith,
1:17.5	particularly in that first century after the council, Louis Ayers and Caledonatolios.
1:22.5	They've made enormous contributions to the study of the theological cultures and doctrines
1:27.3	in that first century after Nicaa.
1:29.3	How might Aquinas, who stands as one between the early church and our own time, on the creed, be understood through their work?
1:38.3	Right. So both heirs and Anatolios, going back to the history of the early church, and they do so very
1:48.0	conscious of our own setting and the need for us to have a robust Nicene faith today.
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