Thomas Aquinas on Religious Vocations | Fr. Andrew Hofer, OP

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🗓️ 28 October 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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This lecture was given at Trinity College Dublin on 24 September 2019.

Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P., grew up as the youngest of ten children on a farm in Kansas, and studied history, philosophy, and classics at Benedictine College. He then went to St Andrews, Scotland for a Master of Letters in medieval history. He entered the Order of Preachers as a son of the Province of St. Joseph, and was ordained a priest in 2002. After finishing his S.T.L. and serving as an associate pastor for a brief time, he was sent to Kenya as a missionary for two years. He taught at the Tangaza College of The Catholic University of Eastern Africa and other institutions in Nairobi. He returned to the U.S. and completed the Ph.D. in theology at the University of Notre Dame, with the primary area of history of Christianity (specializing in patristic theology with additional studies in medieval theology) and the secondary area of systematic theology. His research appears in such journals as Vigiliae Christianae, Augustinianum, International Journal of Systematic Theology, New Blackfriars, Nova et Vetera, Pro Ecclesia, The Thomist, Communio, and Angelicum and in books published by Catholic University America Press and Ignatius Press. He is the author of "Christ in the Life and Teaching of Gregory of Nazianzus(Oxford Early Christian Studies)," Oxford University Press, 2013, and the editor of "Divinization: Becoming Icons of Christ through the Liturgy," Hillenbrand Books, 2015.

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0:00.0	Now, in terms of St. Thomas Aquinas, I'd like for us to go back to his life before we look at his theology,
0:07.0	because his theology springs from his life, and his life is very much one of a religious.
0:12.0	So sometimes people know of Thomas Aquinas and study him in philosophy classes, and that's wonderful.
0:18.0	You know, I wish the whole world would study St. Thomas. Thomas never
0:22.8	thought of himself as a philosopher. He did not teach philosophy classes. For his position
0:30.9	at the University of Paris, he was a master of the Sacred Page, and so he taught what we call
0:37.3	theology.
0:38.3	Okay, so in terms of being able to read and dispute and preach on sacred scripture.
0:45.3	But even more than as a master of the sacred page who was a university master, he was a Dominican friar, a religious. In order for us to understand
0:57.0	the significance of that for him, we go back to the very beginning. An early legend about
1:03.0	St. Thomas Aquinas was that a hermit by the name of Bonus, the good man, came to this woman
1:10.0	by the name of Theodora,
1:11.6	wife of Landolph, and said to her, she was pregnant at the time,
1:16.6	you will bear a son, you will name him Thomas.
1:20.6	You and your husband will send him to the monastery of Monaco Sino,
1:24.6	where the body of Blessed Benedict rests. You will think that he will become abbot of Montecino,
1:30.3	but God has ordained otherwise and he will become a friar and the order of preachers.
1:36.3	Theodora in this enunciation scene then says how she's not worthy but she accepts God's will.
1:43.3	Okay, what happens?
1:45.0	So about when Thomas turned five years old,
1:49.6	Theodore and Landoff gave Thomas over to Monte Cassino to be raised.
1:55.1	And this was a common practice.
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