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Back to SearchThe Trivium According to Dorothy Sayers | Episode XX
Episode 20
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The Lost Tools of Learning, a 1947 lecture delivered at Oxford by Dorothy Sayers, was largely ignored at the time and in England unti…
4 years ago
Don’t Read Too Much | Episode XIX
Episode 19
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In one of his many letters to his nephew Lucilius, the famous Stoic philosopher, playwright, and statesman, Seneca, advises his nephe…
4 years, 1 month ago
Oakeshott Teaches Us How (and What) to Think, feat. Dale Stenberg | Episode XVIII
Episode 18
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Should teachers teach their pupils what to think? Or how to think? The great English philosopher Michael Oakeshott says it’s not so s…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Original New Humanist, featuring Dr. Eric Adler and Katherine Bradshaw | Episode XVII
Episode 17
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Long before the New Humanists podcast was born, Irving Babbitt helped found the movement now known as New Humanism. University of Mar…
4 years, 2 months ago
T.S. Eliot’s Praise for Privilege | Episode XVI
Episode 16
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It is tempting to dismiss T.S. Eliot’s musings on class, society, and education as the complaints of a cranky reactionary. But the gr…
4 years, 2 months ago
Athanasius’ On the Incarnation, feat. Calvin Goligher | Episode XV
Episode 15
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Athanasius the Great, Athanasius contra mundum, the Hammer of the Arians. The great defender of orthodox Christology is no mere rigor…
4 years, 3 months ago
C.S. Lewis on Old Books | Episode XIV
Episode 14
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At the same time that he was delivering the Mere Christianity radio addresses to a war-torn England, C.S. Lewis penned a now-famous p…
4 years, 3 months ago
Learning to Read the Bible, feat. Dr. Dru Johnson and Tyler Foster | Episode XIII
Episode 13
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Rather than trying to pull the mask off the Hebrew Bible to reveal something (a monster?) hidden underneath, what if you attended to …
4 years, 4 months ago
René Girard, Myth, and the Bible, feat. Dr. Patrick Downey
Episode 12
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In I See Satan Fall Like Lightning, René Girard argues that the Bible definitively refutes the lies of pagan mythology. The pagan myt…
4 years, 4 months ago
Benedict in Regensburg: Faith, Reason, and the University | Episode XI
Episode 11
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This is the lecture that sparked worldwide outcry - for all the wrong reasons. In reality, the Regensburg Address is a sparkling medi…
4 years, 5 months ago