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Back to SearchLearning 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, 5 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, 6 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, 6 months ago
Tolkien, Philology, and the Great Books, feat. Colin Chan Redemer | Episode X
Episode 10
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At the end of his academic career at Oxford University, J.R.R. Tolkien gave his “Valedictory Address,” an analysis of the decline of …
4 years, 7 months ago
Antony and Cleopatra, feat. Katherine Bradshaw | Episode IX
Episode 9
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Shakespeare’s Roman trilogy reaches a climax in The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra, a love- and wine-drenched account of Octavius Ca…
4 years, 7 months ago
Voegelin on Classics
Episode 8
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The hothouse of prewar Vienna played host to an unprecedented concentration of genius which eventually gave birth to modernism. Prese…
4 years, 8 months ago
Julius Caesar, feat. Katherine Bradshaw | Episode VII
Episode 7
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ALI Fellow Katherine Bradshaw returns to New Humanists, in installment number two of our discussion of Shakespeare's Roman plays. Thi…
4 years, 8 months ago
Coriolanus, feat. Katherine Bradshaw | Episode VI
Episode 6
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Did Shakespeare actually know anything about Ancient Rome? Or was he just writing Classical Fan-Fiction? ALI Greek & Latin Fellow Kat…
4 years, 9 months ago
Solzhenitsyn's Exhortations | Episode V
Episode 5
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is an unlikely candidate for “humanist,” especially because of his denunciation of humanism in his infamous Ha…
4 years, 9 months ago
The Art of Humane Education | Episode IV
Episode 4
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What is humane education? Are there techniques you can use to get students to appreciate the great books? Jonathan and Ryan discuss D…
4 years, 10 months ago