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

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🗓️ 27 January 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Fr. Andrew Hofer explores St. Thomas Aquinas's understanding of God's mercy in the writings of St. Paul, paying particular attention to Mercy's relationship to Divine justice and its transformative activity in Christian life.

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.

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1:00.7	We'll begin with the reading from Romans 11, verses 30 to 32.
1:06.4	For as you also in times past did not believe God God but now have obtained mercy through their unbelief,
1:12.6	so these also now have not believed for your mercy that they may obtain mercy.
1:16.6	For God has concluded all in unbelief that he may have mercy on all.
1:21.6	Let us pray.
1:23.6	Most merciful God, we thank you for sending your own son who shows us the depths of your mercy.
1:31.3	We ask you now to pour forth His Holy Spirit upon us that we may always praise you and so sing your mercies forever.
1:39.3	We make this prayer in the name of Jesus Christ, your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with you in unity of the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever.
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