I talk about the importance of memory throughout the Brothers Karamazov. I also talk about the power of the Good to bring good out of all things, even trama, sin, and brokenness.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/po
We talk about fatherhood, and why Dimitri is a Job figure.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/creative-retrieval/message
We talk about the first part of book 11, and especially Dimitri's discussion on the Hymns he will sing underground in Siberia.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/creative-retrieval/message
We talk about Kolya, Illusha, and the roll of children in the Brothers Karamazov.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/creative-retrieval/message
In this lecture, I talk about Dimitri's dream about the suffering of the "wee ones" and link it up with Ivan's suffering children, and Smerdyakov's hatred of the 'wee ones.'--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho
We talk about Dimitri and the comparison with Zosima, and conscience as our ability to condemn ourselves as guilty so that we don't rebel against God's judgement.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/creative-
We talk about Dimitri as the incarnation of a man who is either hot or cold NEVER lukewarm. We also talk about his sudden decision to let go of his life.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/creative-retrieval
We talk about Alyosha's rebellion, the onion, and the wedding of Cana.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/creative-retrieval/message
This lecture is about Zossima's homilies/talks, sin, death, alcoholics anonymous, and St. Mary of Egypt.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/creative-retrieval/message
I talk about the Grand Inquisitor, the weight of freedom and conscience, and ideology.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/creative-retrieval/message
We talk about the need for a love that isn't contempt, the need for loving life with one's guts, and Rebellion.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/creative-retrieval/message
We talk about Zossima's claim he is guilty before all and for all, and worse than all.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/creative-retrieval/message
We discuss why it is only active love that can convince one of God and immortality, why I think Ivan is NOT an atheist, etc.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/creative-retrieval/message
I discuss Book 2, chapters 1-4 of the Brothers Karamazov.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/creative-retrieval/message
An introduction to "A Nice Little Family " which is the title of book 1.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/creative-retrieval/message
Hans Urs von Balthasar, Theo-Logic, v.1 - Truth of the World (ch. 3, pt. 2)--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/creative-retrieval/message
Balthasar, Theo-Logic, v.1 - Truth of the World (ch. 3, pt. 1)--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/creative-retrieval/message
This finishes up chapter two - "Truth as Freedom" of Balthasar's The-logic, v.1: Truth of the World.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/creative-retrieval/message
In this lecture I discuss the second half of the first chapter of Balthasar's Theo-Logic. I talk about the relationship of knowledge to creation, and how knowledge requires a knowing of another as other even in its receiving of the other into i
I discuss the first half of chapter 1 ("Truth as Nature") of Hans Urs von Balthasar's book Theo-Logic, v.1: Truth of the World. In this lecture I focus on the first two sections ("A. The Preliminary Concept of Truth" and "B. The Subject"). I co
Sienkiewicz and Jaeger talk about the dynamism of intellect and will towards the Infinite as found in the metaphysical thought of St. Thomas Aquinas. We talk about how man is self-determining in virtue of those capacities and how his mystery i