God's Justice According to St. Thomas' Reading of the Apostle Paul | Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.

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🗓️ 28 January 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Andrew Hofer explores St. Thomas Aquinas's understanding of God's Justice as revealed in the Gospel and the writings of St. Paul, emphasizing its connection to grace, truth, and the conformity of creation to God's intellect.

This lecture was given on October 19th, 2024, 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.

Keywords: Aquinas, Dikaussune, God's Justice, Gospel, Grace, Justification, Romans, St. Paul, Truth

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0:42.6	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church,
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0:53.4	chapters around the world. To learn more
0:55.9	and to attend these events, visit us at Thomisticinstitute.org. We'll begin with a reading from
1:02.6	Romans chapter 1. This is Romans 1, 1617, and a prayer. I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the power of God and to salvation to
1:15.1	everyone who believes, to the Jew first and to the Greek, for the justice of God is revealed
1:21.9	therein, from faith and to faith, as it is written, the just one lives by faith. Let us pray. Almighty God, we praise you for the
1:33.4	justice revealed in the gospel. We ask you now to pour forth your Holy Spirit upon us, that we may be like you,
1:41.9	just. We make this prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, your son, our Lord,
1:45.9	who lives and reigns with union to the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever.
1:50.2	Our Lady Queen of the Martyrs, St. Thomas Aquinas.
1:53.9	In the name of the Father and the Son, the Holy Spirit.
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