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Back to SearchA Great Books Monastery | Episode LXXIX
Episode 79
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When civilization is crashing down all around you, what do you do? Retreat to the hills, build a monastery, and preserve what you can. That is exactly what Cassiodorus did in the 6th ce…
Published on 11 months ago
The Barren Contemplative Life | Episode LXXVIII
Episode 78
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This week, Jonathan and Ryan discuss two early medieval selections from Richard M. Gamble's The Great Tradition, one taken from Gregory the Great, perhaps the most significant pope in t…
Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago
How to Train a Pastor | Episode LXXVII
Episode 77
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He who teaches the truth finds himself locked in battle against all those who teach falsehood. With what tools will you equip him? That is the question motivating "Education of the Cler…
Published on 1 year ago
Florence the Heir of Rome | Episode LXXVI
Episode 76
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What if the true heir of the Roman Empire was not Rome, but Florence? Over the course of his life and career as a scholar and politician, the great humanist Leonardo Bruni made this arg…
Published on 1 year ago
The Homer-Industrial Complex | Episode LXXV
Episode 75
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The Iliad was more popular than the Odyssey beginning in ancient times, and continued to be all the way up to World War One. Then, something changed. Now the Odyssey leaves the Iliad in…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Humanism, With or Without God, feat. Eric Adler | Episode LXXIV
Episode 74
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For the first time, a collection of Irving Babbitt's and Paul Elmer More's correspondence has been published. Eric Adler, the editor of the collection (titled "Humanistic Letters") join…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Medieval Monastic Humanism | Episode LXXIII
Episode 73
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Love for Cicero, attention to rhetorical form, use of pagan wisdom for political thought - these are all hallmarks of the Renaissance humanists. But not their invention. In fact, you fi…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
How to Learn Like Thomas Aquinas | Episode LXXII
Episode 72
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Thomas Aquinas is also known as the "Angelic Doctor," but he was quite capable of coming down from the heavens and getting practical. In two selections from his work included in Richard…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Pagans and Christians, Glory and Piety | Episode LXXI
Episode 71
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The things of God belong to a heavenly kingdom. But politics is taken up with what is earthly. Surely, therefore, Christians should keep politics at a distance as much as possible. Righ…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Petrarch's Little Dark Age | Episode LXX
Episode 70
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Imagine that you are the leading figure in a movement to renew the study and appreciation of classical literature, but you have come to the end of your life and not only has the educati…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago