Made in God's Image: Genesis 1.26-27 and Divine Representation | Fr. Jordan Schmidt, O.P.

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🗓️ 3 March 2022

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This talk was given on October 2, 2021 at the Dominican House of Studies as part of "Created in the Image of God: An Intellectual Retreat." For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Fr. Andrew Jordan Schmidt, OP, grew up in North Dakota and received a Bachelor's degree in English and East Asian Studies from St. John's University in Collegeville, MN in May 2002. After serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural China, he entered the seminary, studying for the diocese of Bismarck at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in St. Louis, MO from 2004-2006. He joined the St. Joseph province of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) in the summer of 2006, and moved to Washington, DC to study at the Pontifical Faculty Immaculate Conception where he earned an STB and MDiv in 2009. In the Fall of 2009, he entered the STL program in Biblical Theology at The Catholic University of America. Upon completing his Licentiate degree in 2012, he was ordained a priest at St. Dominic's parish in Washington, DC after which he was assigned as associate pastor to St. Mary's parish in New Haven, CT. In the Fall of 2013, he returned to Washington to pursue a doctorate in Biblical Studies at The Catholic University of America. During his time at The Catholic University of America, Fr. Jordan has served as a teaching assistant and teaching fellow in addition to taking on various posts in the STRS student association.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Tamistic Institute. For more talks like this, visit us at
0:05.4	tamistic institute.org. I thought of my two talks as being complimentary, and if I were to
0:15.7	summarize them, it would basically be to say that this is a biblical theology of the image of God. So the first talk I
0:25.0	want to focus on what I would call the natural image of God, that it is the image of God as
0:33.5	related as described in Genesis of how God creates human beings.
0:39.3	And then in the next talk, it will be more about the supernatural image of God.
0:45.3	We are not only created in the image of God, but as Paul tells us, we are being transformed into the image of God. We in Genesis hear about our origin in terms of the
0:59.4	image of God and in Romans and 1 Corinthians, we hear about our destiny in terms of the image of God.
1:07.8	It describes both realities, where we begin and where we're going. And this, I think,
1:14.5	you know, kind of gives us a bit of an overview of context. To begin at the outset, as I was
1:22.3	sitting back there listening to the questions for Dr. Grabowski's sessions, I realized that it might be helpful
1:29.2	just to begin with a word about what we believe about the Bible and about Scripture.
1:36.3	And to do that, there's no better place to go than Dave Erbom, the dogmatic constitution on the
1:43.1	word of God from Vatican 2.
1:45.4	The thing I want to highlight at the outset is just this.
1:50.2	I want to read a couple of sentences.
1:52.7	This is from Dei Verbum paragraph 2, the very first sentence.
1:57.1	In his goodness and wisdom, God chose to reveal himself and to make known to us the hidden purpose of his will, by which through Christ the Word Made Flesh, man might in the Holy Spirit have access to the Father and come to share in the divine nature.
2:17.3	Then in paragraph six,
2:19.3	through divine revelation,
2:21.3	God chose to show forth and communicate himself
2:25.3	and the eternal decisions of his will.
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