WOF 323: Reading Scripture with the Early Church Fathers

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Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 14 February 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Friends, today we share a sample lesson from Bishop Barron's new Word on Fire Institute course titled “Reading Scripture with the Early Church Fathers.” In this course, Bishop Barron introduces the spiritual dynamics of Biblical exegesis in Origen and St. Augustine of Hippo. The Church Fathers did not separate Scripture and spirituality but saw the form of the spiritual life within the Scripture. As the key of the Scriptures, Christ is the key to the spiritual life. This course delves into the riches of how the Church reads Scripture, greatly inspired by the writings of Origen and St. Augustine.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vaat, the senior publishing director at Word on Fire.
0:12.3	Today we share with you a lesson from one of Bishop Barron's excellent courses inside of our Word on Fire Institute.
0:18.7	The course is titled Reading Scripture with the Early Church Fathers.
0:23.5	If you've ever wondered how the first Christians understood the Bible, how they read it, how they interpreted it,
0:29.6	this is the course for you. Bishop Barron introduces patristic biblical exegesis. That's the
0:36.3	technical way of saying how the church fathers interpreted Scripture by focusing on two key figures,
0:42.4	origin of Alexandria and St. Augustine of Hippo. This six lesson course is packed with fascinating
0:50.3	information that is not only interesting and electually but spiritually illuminating.
0:56.0	Today we're going to hear lesson one in the course which is on origin of Alexandria and
1:01.4	Christological exegesis. Bishop Barron shows how origin understood Christ as the key that unlocks
1:09.2	not only the Scriptures but the spiritual life as a whole. I think you're really going to enjoy it.
1:13.9	Bishop Barron, as we all know, is an excellent teacher. So sit back and enjoy this first lesson in
1:19.7	Bishop Barron's Word on Fire Institute course titled Reading Scripture with the Early Church Fathers. Enjoy.
1:32.2	So shall we begin with origin of Alexandria? You know maybe not a household name but gosh
1:38.3	among Christian thinkers and practitioners he should be. I would rank him with Aquinas, with a
1:44.3	gust and is one of the three or four greatest thinkers in the Christian tradition. Quirky, yeah,
1:52.4	that he say some things the church eventually repudiated. Yeah he did. For example Apocatostasis
1:58.5	the view that he knows that all people even the spiritual creatures, even the devil himself,
2:04.0	will be saved. The church backed away from that position. He's a bit subordinationist in his
2:09.8	Trinitarian theology. His Christology is a little bit off of kilter. So the church did back away
2:15.9	from some things that origin said. Having said that there's so much of depth and beauty and richness
2:23.2	in origin. You know go back to the 19th century beginning with John Henry Newman that coming up
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