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Can Christians read and appreciate pagan literature? The vexed relationship between the Church and a world that hates it has generated many different responses. The most popular recent proposal is Rod Dreher's "Benedict option" - Dreher counsels Christian retrenchment and quasi-monastic self-sufficiency. But the great saint of late antiquity and compiler of the Vulgate, Jerome (aka Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus), proposes a different option, drawn from the Mosaic Law. Jonathan and Ryan look at three different letters from Jerome's voluminous correspondence, each taking a different angle on literature and learning.
Richard M. Gamble's The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO
Recommended edition of the Vulgate: https://amzn.to/3FFjqaR
Athanasius' On the Incarnation: https://amzn.to/42h3ww9
Apuleius' Metamorphoses: https://amzn.to/4429DWz
Rod Dreher's The Benedict Option: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780735213302
Passion of Perpetua and Felicity: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0324.htm
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Music: Save Us Now by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
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Can Christians read and appreciate pagan literature? The vexed relationship between the Church and a world that hates it has generated many different responses. The most popular recent proposal is Rod Dreher's "Benedict option" - Dreher counsels Christian retrenchment and quasi-monastic self-sufficiency. But the great saint of late antiquity and compiler of the Vulgate, Jerome (aka Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus), proposes a different option, drawn from the Mosaic Law. Jonathan and Ryan look at three different letters from Jerome's voluminous correspondence, each taking a different angle on literature and learning.
Richard M. Gamble's The Great Tradition: https://amzn.to/3Q4lRnO
Recommended edition of the Vulgate: https://amzn.to/3FFjqaR
Athanasius' On the Incarnation: https://amzn.to/42h3ww9
Apuleius' Metamorphoses: https://amzn.to/4429DWz
Rod Dreher's The Benedict Option: https://bookshop.org/a/25626/9780735213302
Passion of Perpetua and Felicity: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0324.htm
New Humanists is brought to you by the Ancient Language Institute: https://ancientlanguage.com/
Links may have referral codes, which earn us a commission at no additional cost to you. We encourage you, when possible, to use Bookshop.org for your book purchases, an online bookstore which supports local bookstores.
Music: Save Us Now by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com
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