April is the cruellest month, breeding. Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing. Memory and desire, stirring. Dull roots with spring rain. (The Wasteland, T.S. Eliot) The Ringside Preachers and Dr. Arthur Just explore the poetry of T.S. Eliot and his expression of the Christian Faith at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne.

 

Topics:

1. T.S. Eliot leading up to his Christian Conversion
2. The Philosophy of Modern and Postmodern Christianity
3. How does Eliot’s poetry speak to Christians today?
4. Repentance and Culture

 

Guest:

Dr. Arthur Just

Professor of Exegetical Theology and Assistant Faculty Marshal at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne. 

 

Thank you: 

Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne

1517.org 

Grace Lutheran Ventura

St. James Lutheran, Chicago

 

Music:

Joel A. Hess (Willing Virginia) - “Birthdays, Roses, and Balloons “

Dead Horse One - I love my man

 

Other stuff:

Eliot and His Age, Russell Kirk

The Golden Bough, Sir James George Frazer

Literary Converts, Joseph Pearce

The Confessions of X, Suzanne Wolfe

James K A Smith

Catherine Pickstock

Graham Ward

Liturgy in the Postmodern World, Keith Pecklers 

The Idea of a Christian Society, T.S. Eliot

Notes Towards a Definition of Culture, T.S. Eliot

The Road, Cormac McCarthy

The Book of Eli (movie)

The Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot

Murder in the Cathedral, T.S. Eliot