What does the Bible say about priests? (Dr. Andrew Swafford) | Ep. 220

Pints With Aquinas

Matt Fradd

Stthomasaquinas, Saintthomasaquinas, Mattfradd, Theology, Catholic, Dominican, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

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🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

It's a new episode of Pints with Aquinas, and I welcome back my friend, Dr. Andrew Swafford—this time to talk about the Biblical basis for the priesthood.

If you've ever wondered what the Bible says about the priesthood (or if it says anything at all about it), then this episode is for you.

Dr. Swafford and I dive deep into the topic and answer such questions as:

- What does a "priest" really mean?

- Why doesn't the Catholic Church ordain women?

- Why do we call priests "Father" when Christ tells us to call no earthly man your father?

- What is apostolic succession?

- Why do we need another mediator, if Christ is already the mediator between us and God?

- And more!!

I think you're going to really love this episode! Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Gooday, gooday, welcome to Pints with Aquinas. My name is Matt Frad, and today I'm joined around the bar table by Dr. Andrew Swofford to talk about the biblical basis for the priesthood. We cover a whole range of topics. But some of the things you might be interested in is, you know, what does a priest even mean? Why doesn't the Catholic Church ordain women? How do we square our calling priest's father with Christ saying,
0:27.9	call no man on earth your father? What is apostolic succession? Why do we need another mediator,
0:34.7	right? So like, Christ is the mediator between us and God, and now you've got a
0:39.1	priest who's the mediator between, this just seems unnecessary. And so we tackle some Protestant
0:45.3	objections as well. We delve deep into the Old Testament. Dr. Andrew Swofford knows a great deal about
0:51.0	that. So that was really fun. Also, when we do these videos, we often do a
0:55.2	post-show wrap-up video for our patrons only. We did a really long one after this episode. It was all
1:00.8	on whether or not infants should receive Eucharist. And we take a look at what Thomas Aquinas
1:05.6	has to say in the tertia pars about this. It was about a 20 minute chat.
1:11.8	So if you're a patron, go check out the post-show wrap-up video.
1:14.8	If you want a bunch of perks, including post-show wrap-up videos, and you're not yet a patron,
1:18.5	become a patron at patreon.com slash Matt Frad.
1:21.4	Let me just say this.
1:22.9	We disagree with Thomas Aquinas on this issue, and we think that that's okay.
1:27.5	So I'm just going to leave it at that. We disagree with Thomas Aquinas on this issue and we think that that's okay.
1:28.7	So I'm just going to leave it at that.
1:30.0	You can go check that out.
1:33.6	Who is Andrew Swofford?
1:36.8	Well, let me put my glasses on and I'll bloody tell you.
1:40.6	Andrew Swofford is an associate professor of theology at Benedictine College. He's general editor and contributor to the Great Adventure Catholic Bible, published by
1:47.1	Ascension Press, and host of the DVD series, and author of the companion book, Hebrews,
1:53.3	the new and eternal covenant. We're going to talk about that today, as well as author and host
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