Thy Kingdom Come | Prof. Nina Heereman

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🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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This lecture was given on March 25, 2022 at the Dominican House of Studies as part of the Thomistic Institute's Annual Spring Thomistic Circles Conference: "Our Father: Prayer and Theology." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Dr. Heereman was born and raised in a devout Catholic family in Germany. Originally trained to become a lawyer, she experienced a deep encounter with the Lord which led her to discern a vocation as a lay woman celibate for the sake of the kingdom. She received two years of spiritual formation and attended the ICPE school of Evangelization in India, Banglore, which eventually led her to theological studies so as to consecrate her life to the study and teaching of the Word of God. She received an STB from the Pontifical Gregorian University, an SSL from the Pontifical Biblical Institute, and the SSD from the École biblique et archéologique française de Jérusalem on and the Université de Fribourg. During and after her doctoral studies she lectured at the Collège des Bernhardins, Paris, and the Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome as a visiting professor. Explaining her discernment to join St. Patrick’s faculty, Dr. Heereman writes: “In particular, I desire to open up the treasures of the Scriptures to future priests so that their ministry might be rooted in the Word of God as the living source of their life and preaching. I am deeply committed to the Church’s desire to make ‘the study of the sacred page the very soul of theology’ (DV 24).”

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0:08.0	According to one of Pope Francis' famous four principles,
0:16.0	time is greater than space.
0:18.0	With all due respect to the pontiff, I must object, however, that at least
0:23.4	with regards to the kingdom of God, its space is much greater than the 49 minutes allotted to me
0:30.5	this afternoon. As the prophet Baruch says, vast is the dwelling of God, broad the scope of its dominion, vast and endless,
0:41.3	high and immeasurable, Baruch 324-25. The kingdom of God for the coming of which the Lord himself
0:48.6	ordained the direction of our prayers is a mystery that can be approached from many different angles. I find myself in
0:56.7	America's lighthouse of Thomism and in a circle of Thomists, which would make a systematic approach
1:03.7	seem the most appropriate and evident. Had you, however, wished a treatment of the Kingdom of God
1:10.4	in the theology of St. Thomas,
1:12.1	you would have been better advised to invite Dr. Matthew Martin, who defended a dissertation on this very topic in this very city at the Catholic University of America in 2016.
1:23.9	Instead, you invited a speaker who has no other qualification than a training in Old Testament,
1:31.1	historical critical exegesis, and thus you get what you ask for.
1:36.3	And yet I dare hope you will not be entirely disappointed by what I have to offer and for the
1:42.8	following reason.
1:44.6	Skimming through several books on the Kingdom of God, I was surprised to find that hardly
1:49.7	any take the time to first establish what the Kingdom of God might have meant to a first
1:55.0	century Jewish audience. And in what way the Old Testament has prepared both Jesus' contemporary audience and even ourselves
2:03.9	to grasp this central aspect of his preaching?
2:08.1	After all, the arrival of God's kingdom stands at the very core of Jesus' proclamation,
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