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- The hospitality of the cross (and empty tomb)
Hans Boersma on the divine transcendent warrant for our human responsibility to be hospitable - Banquet invitations for the poor
David and Ruth Rupprecht on Jesus’ command for radical hospitality - Openness, welcome, listening to God
Jean Vanier on the shape of love in community - Reflecting God’s graciousness to strangers
Christine Pohl on the character of hospitable communities - Edith Stein and the power of spiritual autobiographies
Fr. Pier Giorgio Pacelli, O.C.D. and Br. John-Mary Winter, O.C.D. on the fascinating mind and spiritual journey of Edith Stein
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In this lecture, Bishop Robert Barron explores the anthropological crisis at the heart of the modern university. A misanthropic and inherently unstable view of human nature comprised of ideas from Marx, Nietzsche, Foucault, and Sartre has estranged students from learning that aligns with a genuine human capacity to seek truth and experience wonder. The result is an intellectual life “transformed from a common search for truth into a contest of competing identities and narratives.” Barron praises Josef Pieper for recalling us away from a pedagogy of despair and toward a Christian humanism that addresses and honors the fullness of our being and of reality. Students today need this renewed vision, Barron argues. Pieper counters the reigning “pedagogy of despair” with “an alternative picture that rings truer” and that leads to real human flourishing.
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Guests on Volume 167
- NICHOLAS CARR, author of Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, on how social media affects our brains and our relationships
- THOMAS WARD, author of After Stoicism: Last Words of the Last Roman Philosopher, on Boethius — the Christian — and Stoicism
- JOSEPH STUART, author of Christopher Dawson: A Cultural Mind in the Age of the Great War, on Dawson’s forgotten legacy
- STEVEN KNEPPER & ROBERT WYLLIE, authors of Byung-Chul Han: A Critical Introduction, on key themes in the contemporary philosopher’s work
- EPHRAIM RADNER, author of Mortal Goods: Reimagining Christian Political Duty, on the flawed modern narrative of ‘‘betterment”
- ANDREW WILLARD JONES, author of The Church Against the State: On Subsidiarity and Sovereignty, on reality, friendship, and analogical participation