Creative Retrieval

Creative Retrieval

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  • 27. St. Gregory of Nyssa, _Life of Moses_, Part 4

    This episode is killer!  We discuss what it means to be satisfied in one's eternal progress in God, why we can't see God face to face and live, and other mystical insights of St. Gregory.

    We will finish the Life of Moses in the next episode.  After the next episode we will move into Gregory of Nyssa's Commentary on the Song of Songs.

    What books should we discuss next? Leave your thoughts here!

    1 hr 2 min
  • 26. St. Gregory of Nyssa, _Life of Moses_, Part 3

    In this podcast, we discuss pages 78-97 of Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Moses.  If you have questions, thoughts about Nyssa or any of the things we discuss, please do not hesitate to email us and share your thoughts!

    Next time we will go on to discuss pages 97 - 120 (one of the best/most famous sections of the book).

    What books should we discuss next? Leave your thoughts here!

    1 hr 13 min
  • 25. St. Gregory of Nyssa, _Life of Moses_, Part 2

    Here we go on to discuss pages 55-78 of Gregory of Nyssa's Life of Moses.  If you have questions, thoughts about Nyssa or any of the things we discuss, please do not hesitate to email us and share your thoughts!

    Next time we will go on to discuss pages 78-97. 

    Let us know what books we should discuss in the future: https://www.patreon.com/posts/what-books-we-in-56233341

    1 hr 15 min
  • 24. St. Gregory of Nyssa, _Life of Moses_, Part 1

    We begin the incredibly influential book of mystical theology by St. Gregory of Nyssa: The Life of Moses.  On our reading, this book proposes that the life of Moses as a temporal icon of salvation history, so that all of salvation history is recapitulated and imaged in Moses; moreover, we argue that this is what the Christian life is: a telling of the entirety of salvation history from a particular moment in history.  

    We discuss pages 29-51 of the following translation.  In the next episode we will be discussing pages 55-78.

    Buy Life of Moses here.

    Leave your thoughts about what book we should discuss next, here!

    1 hr 7 min
  • 23. St. Gregory of Nyssa, "On What It Means to Call Oneself a Christian"

    In this episode, we discuss St. Gregory of Nyssa's work "On what it means to call oneself a Christian."  In the next episode, we will be moving into a series of episodes on Nyssa's more mystical work, _The Life of Moses_.

    If you want to read along while you listen, you can find the book here: https://www.amazon.com/Gregory-Nyssa-Classics-Western-Spirituality/dp/0809121123/ref=sr_1_2?crid=77332UU830U0&dchild=1&keywords=life+of+moses+gregory+of+nyssa&qid=1631308871&s=books&sr=1-2

    1 hr 1 min
  • 22. St. Gregory of Nyssa, "On the Christian Mode of Life," pt. 2

    We finish up St. Gregory of Nyssa's "On the Christian Mode of Life."  This is a work which all Christian's should read.  Next week we will discuss St. Gregory of Nyssa's "On what it means to call oneself a Christian."

    Starting September 28th, we will be reading through the entirety of St. Gregory of Nyssa's mystical theological work: Life of Moses (buy it here to read along).  


    1 hr 1 min

About Creative Retrieval

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A Catholic philosophical/theological podcast aimed at retrieving great works of the tradition. Works discussed: Dostoyevsky's Brothers Karamazov, Gregory of Nyssa, Norris Clarke (St. Thomas Aquinas Lecture), Plato's Republic, Hans urs von Balthasar's Theo-Logic, Dickens' A Christmas Carol.