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  • JD Lyonhart / Henry More on Space and the Divine

    JD Lyonhart is an assistant professor of theology and philosophy at LCU, a fellow at the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism at Cambridge University, and a co-host of the Spiritually Incorrect Podcast (spirituallyincorrectpodcast.com). He is the author of Space God: Rejudging a Debate between More, Newton, and Einstein (Cascade, 2023).

    PODCAST LINKS:

    Space God: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666757040/space-god/

    MonoThreeism: https://wipfandstock.com/9781725262683/monothreeism/

    Jonathan’s website: https://www.jdlyonhart.com/

    Spiritually Incorrect Podcast: https://www.spirituallyincorrectpodcast.com/


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    SOURCES MENTIONED:

    Craig, William Lane. Time and Eternity: Exploring God's Relationship to Time.

    Lyonhart, JD. Space God: Rejudging a Debate between More, Newton, and Einstein.

    Newton, Isaac. Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.


    OUTLINE:

    (01:28) – Interdisciplinary philosopher and theologian

    (03:10) – Roundtable: Henry More, Plato, C. S. Lewis, Nietzsche

    (04:58) – Who was Henry More?

    (09:42) – Why are the Cambridge Platonists not better known?

    (10:36) – More’s theories on space

    (19:46) – Divine space’s mediation of immanence and transcendence

    (25:03) – More, Isaac Newton, and modern science

    (30:19) – The contemporary relevance of More’s theory of divine space

    (47:45) – Einstein’s theory of relativity

    (51:18) – Metaphysical space (and time) after Einstein

    (01:02:34) – Divine space and the problem of pantheism

    (01:06:51) – What’s next for Jonathan

    (01:08:20) – Where to find Jonathan

    1 hr 10 min
  • Aimee Patterson / Severe Suffering and the Call to Compassion

    Dr. Aimee Patterson is a Christian ethicist at The Salvation Army Ethics Centre and adjunct faculty at Booth University College. She is the author of the new Cascade book, Suffering Well and Suffering With: Reclaiming Marks of Christian Identity, published within the New Studies in Theology and Trauma series.  


    PODCAST LINKS:

    Aimee’s website: https://www.aimeepatterson.com/

    Aimee’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/AimeeEPatterson

    Suffering Well and Suffering With: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666765458/suffering-well-and-suffering-with/

    The Word Bookstore (Montreal): https://www.thewordbookstore.ca/

    Powell’s Books (Portland): https://www.powells.com/


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    SOURCES MENTIONED:

    Cassell, Eric J. The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine.

    Koyama, Kosuke. Three Mile an Hour God.

    Patterson, Aimee. Suffering Well and Suffering With.

    Schweitzer, Albert. On the Edge of the Primeval Forest.


    OUTLINE:

    (01:27) – Studying suffering and experiencing suffering

    (05:27) – Bookstores in Montreal and Portland

    (06:57) – Roundtable: Jesus, Job, and family

    (10:11) – Suffering and the body

    (17:20) – Severe suffering and social stigma

    (22:38) – Social responses to severe suffering

    (36:13) – Suffering and evil

    (47:14) – The church’s role in suffering well and suffering with

    (55:11) – The solidarity of suffering

    (01:02:02) – The role of the emotions in compassion

    (01:11:06) – How to listen well and show compassion

    (01:16:46) – What’s next for Aimee & where to find her

    1 hr 21 min
  • Leonard Grob and John K. Roth / The Holocaust and Endangered Democracy Today

    Leonard Grob is professor emeritus of philosophy at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

    John K. Roth is Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College.

    Together they have published a number of books, including Encountering the Stranger (2012), which focuses on Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations; Losing Trust in the World (2017), a protest against torture; and most recently, Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy (Cascade, 2023).


    PODCAST LINKS:

    Warnings: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666743968/warnings/

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    SOURCES MENTIONED:

    Applebaum, Anne. Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism.

    Buber, Martin. I and Thou.

    Delbo, Charlotte. Auschwitz and After. 3 vols.

    Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Brothers Karamazov.

    Grob, Leonard, and John K. Roth. Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy.

    ———, eds. Anguished Hope: Holocaust Scholars Confront the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.

    Hallie, Philip. In the Eye of the Hurricane: Tales of Good and Evil, Help and Harm.

    Levinas, Emmanuel. Otherwise than Being, or, Beyond Essence.

     

    OUTLINE:

    (01:39) – Converging on the Holocaust

    (11:40) – Dr. Roth’s roundtable 1: Charlotte Delbo, Anne Applebaum, Amanda Gorman

    (15:01) – Dr. Roth’s roundtable 2: James Madison, Elie Wiesel, Albert Camus

    (17:40) – Dr. Grob’s roundtable: (Plato’s) Socrates, Martin Buber, Charlotte Delbo

    (23:29) – The beginnings of a friendship (and a book or two)

    (31:45) – The Holocaust and contemporary dangers to American democracy

    (35:03) – (Liberal) democracy as a verb, not a noun

    (41:23) – Democracy and virtue

    (49:44) – Democracy and division

    (58:10) – Learning from the Holocaust era

    (01:08:27) – MAGA and the 2024 election

    (01:13:17) – The hurricane as political metaphor

    1 hr 21 min
  • Patočka Booth, Pt. 3 / Martin Koci / Jan Patočka and Christian Theology

    The Patočka Booth is a three-part series of interviews on the Czech philosopher and dissident, Jan Patočka (1907–77). Interviews will explore his philosophical and political thought, his biography and context, and his import for theology.

    Martin Koci is associate professor at KU Linz, Austria. He is the author of Christianity after Christendom: Heretical Essays in Philosophical Theology (2023) and the award-winning Thinking Faith after Christianity: A Theological Reading of Jan Patočka’s Phenomenological Philosophy (2020). Martin is also an editor of numerous volumes—the most recent being God and Phenomenology: Thinking with Jean-Yves Lacoste (Cascade, 2023). His research interests includes the dialogue between phenomenology and theology, and the postmodern context of Christianity.

     

    PODCAST LINKS:

    Martin’s website: https://www.philosoffee.eu/

    Martin’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/koci_martin?lang=en

    Martin’s faculty page: https://ku-linz.at/en/theology/institutes/fundamental_theology_and_dogmatic_theology/staff?tx_persons_personlist%5Baction%5D=show&tx_persons_personlist%5Bcontroller%5D=Person&tx_persons_personlist%5Bperson%5D=356&cHash=f38aadc3637d3f254b1e5ee090a0454a

    Thinking Faith after Christianity: https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/Thinking-Faith-after-Christianity

    Christianity after Christendom: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/christianity-after-christendom-9781350322646/

     

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    SOURCES MENTIONED:

    Day, Barbara. The Velvet Philosophers.

    Janicaud, Dominque, et al. Phenomenology and the Theological Turn: The French Debate.

    Koci, Martin. Christianity after Christendom: Heretical Perspectives in Philosophical Theology.

    ———. God and Phenomenology: Thinking with Jean-Yves Lacoste.

    ———. Thinking Faith after Christianity: A Theological Reading of Jan Patočka’s Phenomenological Philosophy.

    Patočka, Jan. Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History.

    ———. The Selected Writings of Jan Patočka: Care for the Soul.

     

    OUTLINE:

    (02:23) – Jan Patočka and French phenomenology

    (04:24) – Roundtable: Jan Patočka, Emmanuel Falque, Roger Scruton, Jacques Derrida

    (07:39) – Underground seminars

    (09:48) – Biographical and intellectual sketches

    (18:54) – Themes: philosophy of history, asubjective phenomenology

    (21:52) – An unsystematic thinker

    (25:24) – Relationship to Christianity

    (29:39) – Mediating philosophy and theology

    (32:47) – Reading Patočka alongside the “theological turn”

    (38:03) – Christianity as “un-thought-through”

    (45:35) – Outreach/elan/life-force

    (48:01) – Ethics and the struggle against decadence

    (50:19) – “Problematicity” and the “solidarity of the shaken”

    (55:20) – The “sacrifice for nothing”

    (01:00:47) – What’s next for Martin

    (01:03:49) – Where to find Martin

    1 hr 6 min
  • Patočka Booth, Pt. 2 / David Lloyd Dusenbury / Jan Patočka's Heretical Perspectives on European History

    The Patočka Booth is a three-part series of interviews on the Czech philosopher and dissident, Jan Patočka (1907–77). Interviews will explore his philosophical and political thought, his biography and context, and his import for theology.

    David Lloyd Dusenbury is a philosopher, historian of ideas, and senior fellow at Budapest's Danube Institute. He is also visiting professor at Eötvös Loránd University, and the author of Nemesius of Emesa on Human Nature, The Innocence of Pontius Pilate, and I Judge No One (all published by Oxford University Press). Last year, he held the Chair for Jewish-Christian Relations at the University of Antwerp.  

     

    PODCAST LINKS:

    Dr. Dusenbury’s website: https://dldusenbury.com/

    Dr. Dusenbury’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/DusenburyDavid

    Dr. Dusenbury’s academia.edu page: https://huji.academia.edu/DavidLloydDusenbury

    Dr. Dusenbury’s Buda Hills podcast: https://twitter.com/BudaHills

    I Judge No One: A Political Life of Jesus: https://www.amazon.com/Judge-No-One-Political-Jesus/dp/0197690513/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1NJBSOJHMSHAX&keywords=david+lloyd+dusenbury&qid=1700698536&sprefix=david+lloyd+dus%2Caps%2C173&sr=8-1

     

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    SOURCES MENTIONED:

    Derrida, Jacques. The Gift of Death.

    Dusenbury, David Lloyd. “Exploring the Underground Writings of Jan Patočka: War and the Fate of Europe.” Lecture.

    ———. “Jan Patočka’s Dissident Philosophy of History: Human Bondage and the Risk of History.” Lecture.

    ———. I Judge No One: A Political Life of Jesus.

    ———. “The Origins of European Unity and Disunity in Jan Patočka’s Heretical Essays.”

    Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. 4 vols.

    Husserl, Edmund. The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy.

    Jünger, Ernst. Storm of Steel.

    ———. Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History.

    ———. Plato and Europe.

    Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre, SJ. “La nostalgie du front.”

     

    OUTLINE:

    (01:47) – Discovering Patočka (via Derrida)

    (04:35) – Roundtable: Patočka, Derrida, Husserl, Heidegger

    (08:28) – Brief biographical sketches

    (13:05) – Key ideas: the soul and history, the death of Europe, Christianity

    (17:36) – Was Patočka himself religious?

    (19:49) – Plato and Europe

    (23:17) – Philosopher and dissident (of a sort)

    (28:31) – A spiritual reading of European history

    (34:17) – The loss of European unity

    (37:17) – Russia and the United States

    (43:50) – The twentieth century as war

    (52:18) – Questioning and mystery

    (58:33) – What’s next for Dr. Dusenbury

    (59:26) – Where to find Dr. Dusenbury

    1 hr 1 min
  • Patočka Booth, Pt. 1 / Erin Plunkett / The "Solidarity of the Shaken"

    The Patočka Booth is a three-part series of interviews on the Czech philosopher and dissident, Jan Patočka (1907–77). Interviews will explore his philosophical and political thought, his biography and context, and his import for theology.

    Erin Plunkett is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Religious Studies at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She is the editor of the Selected Writings of Jan Patočka: Care for the Soul (2022) and Kierkegaard and Possibility (2023) and the author of A Philosophy of the Essay (2018). 


    PODCAST LINKS:

    Dr. Plunkett’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/jd_silentio

    Dr. Plunkett’s academia.edu page: https://herts.academia.edu/ErinPlunkett

    Dr. Plunkett’s research profile: https://researchprofiles.herts.ac.uk/en/persons/erin-plunkett

    Dr. Plunkett’s website: https://erinshalonplunkett.wordpress.com

    The Selected Writings of Jan Patočka: Care for the Soul: https://www.amazon.com/Selected-Writings-Jan-Patocka-Care/dp/1350139092

    Kierkegaard and Possibility: https://www.amazon.com/Kierkegaard-Possibility-Erin-Plunkett/dp/1350298980

     

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    SOURCES MENTIONED:

    Derrida, Jacques. The Gift of Death.

    ———. Hospitality. 2 vols.

    Heidegger, Martin. “The Question Concerning Technology.”

    Husserl, Edmund. The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy.

    Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

    Musil, Robert. The Man Without Qualities.

    Patočka, Jan. Heretical Essays in the Philosophy of History.

    ———. Plato and Europe.

    ———. The Selected Writings of Jan Patočka: Care for the Soul.

    Plunkett, Erin, ed. Kierkegaard and Possibility.

    Ricœur, Paul. “Jan Patocka: A Philosopher of Resistance.”

    The Socrates of Prague. Documentary.

    Tava, Francesco, and Darian Meacham, eds. Thinking After Europe: Jan Patočka and Politics.

     

    OUTLINE:

    (01:39) – Discovering “the myth of Patočka”

    (06:18) – Roundtable: Patočka, Nietzsche, Foucault, Arendt

    (09:51) – The life of Patočka in the century of war

    (15:37) – Key themes: Movement, care for the soul, sacrifice

    (21:03) – Relationship to Husserl and Heidegger

    (25:02) – Husserlian transcendence vs. Patockian transcendence

    (27:36) – The “limping pilgrim” and the “sacrifice for nothing”

    (32:05) – Patočka, Heidegger, and Husserl on science and technology

    (38:09) – “Asubjective phenomenology”

    (43:05) – Aesthetic and literary criticism

    (48:35) – “The solidarity of the shaken”

    (52:28) – Patočka and Derrida

    (54:08) – The failure of the European project

    (59:32) – What’s next for Dr. Plunkett

    (01:00:55) – Where to find Dr. Plunkett

    1 hr 3 min
  • Luminaries / John Milbank / Metaphysics and Radical(ized) Orthodoxy

    The Luminaries series is a collection of interviews with premier thinkers working in the theological academy and the church.

    John Milbank is Emeritus Professor of Politics, Religion and Ethics at the University of Nottingham where he is also President of the Centre of Theology and Philosophy. His most recent book, written with Adrian Pabst, is The Politics of Virtue: Post-Liberalism and the Human Future.


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    SOURCES MENTIONED:

    de Lubac, Henri. A Brief Catechesis on Nature and Grace.

    Deneen, Patrick J. Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future.

    ———. Why Liberalism Failed.

    Marshall, H. E. Our Island Story.

    Milbank, John. The Future of Love: Essays in Political Theology.

    ———. The Legend of Death: Two Poetic Sequences.

    ———. The Religious Dimension in the Thought of Giambattista Vico, 1668–1774: Language, Law and History.

    ———. Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason.

    ———, and Adrian Pabst. The Politics of Virtue: Post-Liberalism and the Human Future.


    OUTLINE:

    (01:27) – A metaphysics of creativity and generosity

    (06:39) – Roundtable: Maximus, Eriugena, Nicholas of Cusa, or: Schelling, Ravaisson, Solovyov

    (08:48) – Phenomenology and/vs. metaphysics

    (24:57) – Radical orthodoxy’s origin story

    (35:40) – Radical orthodoxy’s relationship to the lived theology of faith communities

    (43:22) – Temptations to cross the Tiber?

    (50:05) – “Eureka moments” in Prof. Milbank’s theological journey

    (58:53) – Ruskin and Christian socialism

    (01:04:10) – The contemporary theological scene

    (01:14:37) – British and American postliberalism(s)

    (01:22:13) – What’s on the horizon for Prof. Milbank

    1 hr 24 min
  • Nicholas Denysenko / Ukraine, Russia, and the Church’s Unholy War

    Nicholas E. Denysenko is Emil and Elfriede Jochum Professor and Chair at Valparaiso University. He is the author of The Orthodox Church in Ukraine: A Century of Separation (2018) and most recently of The Church's Unholy War: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Orthodoxy (Cascade, 2023) and This Is the Day That the Lord Has Made: The Liturgical Year in Orthodoxy (Cascade, 2023).

    *Apologies for the sound feedback on this episode.


    PODCAST LINKS:

    The Church’s Unholy War: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666748154/the-churchs-unholy-war/

    Prof. Denysenko’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/NicholasDenyse1

    Prof. Denysenko’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicholas-denysenko-03869811/

    Prof. Denysenko’s academia.edu page: https://valpo.academia.edu/NicholasDenysenko

     

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    SOURCES MENTIONED:

    Denysenko, Nicholas. The Church’s Unholy War: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine and Orthodoxy.

    ———. The Orthodox Church in Ukraine: A Century of Separation.

    ———. This Is the Day That the Lord Has Made: The Liturgical Year in Orthodoxy.

     

    OUTLINE:

    (01:32) – From liturgical theology to Ukrainian (and Russian) church history

    (06:32) – Personal experiences of Ukraine

    (07:40) – Roundtable: Alexander Schmemann, Maria Skobtsova, Nicholas Afanasiev

    (14:24) – Who’s involved: the Orthodox churches in Ukraine and Russia

    (29:02) – Patriarchs Filaret, Bartholomew, and Kirill

    (46:27) – Metropolitans Onufriy and Epiphaniy

    (01:02:42) – The Maidan Revolution of Dignity and the creation of the Orthodox Church in Ukraine

    (01:08:56) – Why the Russian Orthodox Church justifies the war in Ukraine

    (01:16:09) – Responses to the war from other Orthodox around the globe

    (01:19:38) – What’s next for the global Orthodox churches

    (01:24:02) – What’s next for Prof. Denysenko

    1 hr 27 min
  • Bulgakov Booth, Pt. 4 / Roberto J. De La Noval and Mark Roosien / Bulgakov the Man, Priest, and Theologian

    The Bulgakov Booth is a four-part series of interviews on the Russian priest and theologian, Sergius Bulgakov (1871–1944). The interviews here will explore the many intellectual twists and turns in Bulgakov's biography as well as some key themes in his writings.

    Roberto J. De La Noval is Assistant Professor of Theology at Mount Saint Mary’s University (Emmitsburg, MD). A systematic and historical theologian, his work covers figures such as Sergius Bulgakov and Bernard Lonergan, with a focus on Christian eschatology. He is also a translator of Russian religious thought. His most recent publications are Sergius Bulgakov, The Sophiology of Death (Cascade Books, 2021) and Sergius Bulgakov, Spiritual Diary (Angelico Press, 2022, with Mark Roosien).

    Fr. Mark Roosien is the pastor of Holy Ghost Orthodox Church in Bridgeport, CT, and Lecturer in Liturgical Studies at Yale Divinity School and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. He is a scholar and translator of Eastern Christian theology and liturgy. In addition to his translations of two books by Sergius Bulgakov—The Eucharistic Sacrifice (University of Notre Dame Press, 2021) and Spiritual Diary (Angelico Press, 2022, with Roberto De La Noval)—his monograph on liturgical and theological responses to natural disaster in Byzantium is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. 


    PODCAST LINKS:

    Spiritual Diary: https://angelicopress.com/products/spiritual-diary?_pos=1&_sid=c7ba52dd8&_ss=r

    The Sophiology of Death: https://wipfandstock.com/9781532699658/the-sophiology-of-death/

    The Eucharistic Sacrifice: https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268201418/the-eucharistic-sacrifice/

    Rob's Twitter: https://twitter.com/roberto_noval?lang=en

    Rob's academia.edu page: https://nd.academia.edu/RobertoDeLaNoval

    Fr. Mark's academia.edu page: https://yale.academia.edu/MarkRoosien

    Hermitix podcast: https://hermitix.net/Home

     

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    SOURCES MENTIONED:

    Bulgakov, Sergius. The Bride of the Lamb.

    ———. The Comforter.

    ———. The Eucharistic Sacrifice.

    ———. The Lamb of God.

    ———. Relices and Miracles: Two Theological Essays.

    ———. Sergii Bulgakov: Towards a Russian Political Theology (edited by Rowan Williams).

    ———. The Sophiology of Death: Essays on Eschatology: Personal, Political, Universal.

    ———. Spiritual Diary.

    Florensky, Pavel. The Pillar and Ground of the Truth: An Essay in Orthodox Theodicy in Twelve Letters.

    Marion, Jean-Luc. In Excess: Studies of Saturated Phenomena.

    Solovyov, Vladimir. Lectures on Divine Humanity.


    OUTLINE:

    (02:14) – Drip coffee, ice water, and orange salt electrolyte water

    (07:15) – Rob’s roundtable: Bulgakov, Teilhard de Chardin, Balthasar, Simone Weil

    (11:42) – Fr. Mark’s roundtable: Bulgakov, Balthasar, Ernst Bloch, Augustine

    (15:45) – Biography: son of a priest –> Marxist economist –> theologian and priest

    (27:35) – Personalism, the hyper-real, and Sophia

    (34:10) – The Bulgakov of Spiritual Diary

    (42:23) – Bulgakov the friend (of Florensky and Sr. Reitlinger)

    (52:29) – The story behind The Sophiology of Death

    (01:01:44) – Bulgakov’s theology of death

    (01:11:44) – The Trinity and the eucharistic sacrifice

    (01:23:07) – Final thoughts

    1 hr 28 min
  • Bulgakov Booth, Pt. 3 / Sarah Livick-Moses / Bulgakov on Sophia and Eschatological Politicism

    The Bulgakov Booth is a four-part series of interviews on the Russian priest and theologian, Sergius Bulgakov (1871–1944). The interviews here will explore the many intellectual twists and turns in Bulgakov's biography as well as some key themes in his writings.

    Sarah Livick-Moses is currently writing a dissertation at Boston College on the doctrines of Trinity and creation in Sergii Bulgakov's major theological writings. She is a Managing Editor at the Journal of Religion and the Arts, serves on the Steering Committee for the Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit at the American Academy of Religion, and is a Graduate Fellow with the NU Research Initiative for the Study of Russian Philosophy and Religious Thought.


    PODCAST LINKS:

    Sarah’s academia.edu page: https://bc.academia.edu/SarahLivickMoses

    Genealogies of Modernity: https://genealogiesofmodernity.org/

     

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    SOURCES MENTIONED:

    Bulgakov, Sergius. The Bride of the Lamb.

    ———. The Comforter.

    ———. The Lamb of God.

    ———. Sophia: The Wisdom of God: An Outline of Sophiology.

    ———. The Sophiology of Death: Essays on Eschatology: Personal, Political, Universal.

    ———. Unfading Light: Contemplations and Speculations.

    Livick-Moses, Sarah. “Eschatological Resurrection and Historical Liberation.”

    Meerson, Michael A. The Trinity of Love in Modern Russian Theology.

    Newsome Martin, Jennifer. Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Critical Appropriation of Russian Religious Thought.

    ———. “The ‘Whence’ and the ‘Whither’ of Balthasar’s Gendered Theology: Rehabilitating Kenosis for Feminist Theology.”

    Skobtsova, Mother Maria. Essential Writings.


    OUTLINE:

    (02:03) – Roundtable: Mechthild of Magdeburg, Hadewijch of Antwerp, Meister Eckhart

    (05:30) – Major themes: divine-humanity, eschatology, iconography, Sophia

    (08:02) – Bulgakovian (and Russian) Sophiology

    (15:35) – Countering (completing?) German Idealism

    (18:18) – Friends and influences: Florensky, Berdyaev

    (19:43) – Bulgakov’s (and Maria Skobtsova’s) “eschatological politicism”

    (24:57) – The two poles of eschatological politicism

    (26:35) – Spiritual participation in political systems

    (30:43) – A Bulgakovian assessment of Patriarch Kirill

    (34:25) – Bulgakov’s ecclesial and political milieu

    (36:48) – Sophia in the church-world relation

    (39:47) – Gender difference in Bulgakov’s theology

    (45:45) – Bulgakov’s iconology in feminist perspective

    (50:46) – What’s next for Sarah and where to find her

    55 min

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