The Wittenberg Hour

The Wittenberg Hour concludes our Exploring Weaver series.  Dr. James Tallmon joins The Wittenberg Hour to wrap up our journey through selected writings of Richard M. Weaver.

Why are culture, order, justice, and freedom worth defending?

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Suggested reading:

"On Being a Doctor of Culture" by Dr. James Tallmon

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The Wittenberg Hour continues our Exploring Weaver series.  Dr. James Tallmon joins The Wittenberg Hour to discuss The Image of Culture and The Importance of Cultural Freedom by Richard M. Weaver.

What is culture?  What holds culture together?  Why is distinction fundamental to the survival of culture?

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Suggested reading:

The Importance of Cultural Freedom and The Image of Culture by Richard M. Weaver

"On Being a Doctor of Culture" by Dr. James Tallmon

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Coming up on Episode 10:

Exploring Weaver series conclusion

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The Wittenberg Hour continues our Exploring Weaver series.  Dr. James Tallmon joins The Wittenberg Hour to continue discussing the The Cultural Role of Rhetoric and The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric by Richard M. Weaver.

What is dialectic?  What is rhetoric?  What do dialectic and rhetoric have to do with one another?  What have they to do with culture?

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Suggested reading:

The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric and The Cultural Role of Rhetoric by Richard M. Weaver

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Coming up on Episode 9:

The Importance of Cultural Freedom and The Image of Culture

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Register for Rhetoric class with Dr. Tallmon (2020-21 academic year).

The Wittenberg Hour continues our Exploring Weaver series.  Dr. James Tallmon joins The Wittenberg Hour to discuss the The Cultural Role of Rhetoric and The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric by Richard M. Weaver.

What is dialectic?  What is rhetoric?  What do dialectic and rhetoric have to do with one another?  What have they to do with culture?

Bump music: Lord, Help Us Ever to Retain - Kirk Meyer - Kloria Publishing

Suggested reading:

The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric and The Cultural Role of Rhetoric by Richard M. Weaver

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Coming up on Episode 8:

The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric and The Cultural Role of Rhetoric by Richard M. Weaver (Part II)

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The Wittenberg Hour continues our Exploring Weaver series.  Dr. James Tallmon joins The Wittenberg Hour to discuss the Distinction and Hierarchy by Richard M. Weaver.

What is distinction? What is hierarchy? What have they to do with one another? What have they to do with the family? What have they to do with society?

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Suggested reading:

Distinction and Hierarchy by Richard M. Weaver

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Coming up on Episode 7:

The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric and The Cultural Role of Rhetoric by Richard M. Weaver

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The Wittenberg Hour continues our Exploring Weaver series.  Dr. James Tallmon joins The Wittenberg Hour to discuss the Education and the Individual by Richard M. Weaver.

Episode questions: What is education?  What is the purpose of education?  What has education to do with culture?  What has education to do with the individual?

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Suggested reading:

Education and the Individual by Richard M. Weaver

Life Without Prejudice and Other Essays by Richard M. Weaver

Lutheran Education: From Wittenberg to the Future by Rev. Dr. Thomas Korcok

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Coming up on Episode 6:

Distinction and Hierarchy by Richard M. Weaver

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The Wittenberg Hour begins a series on the writings of Richard M. Weaver.  Dr. James Tallmon joins The Wittenberg Hour to discuss the Introduction to Weaver's Ideas Have Consequences.

Episode questions: What is culture?  What has culture to do with the formation of man and especially the formation of scholars?  Why does what we study matter and how does what we study relate to culture?

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Suggested reading:

Introduction to Ideas Have Consequences by Richard M. Weaver

Warnicles and Folleticus- Quasi-Platonic dialogue referenced in Episode 4

Notes Towards the Definition of Culture by T.S. Eliot

Visions of Order by Richard M. Weaver

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Coming up on Episode 5:

Education and the Individual by Richard M. Weaver

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Wittenberg Academy Rhetoric scholars join The Wittenberg Hour to discuss their rhetorical studies and original oratories.  Also, enjoy the 2020 Wittenberg Academy Celebration of Oratory.

Episode questions: What is a doctor of culture?  What does a doctor of culture do?

Scholar original oratories:

1. Classical Lutheran Education as an Antidote to the Ills of Secularization

2. The Detriment to Adolescents' Journey Toward Adulthood Posed by Progressivism

3. Mining Some Buried Treasures of Music

4. Reconstructing our Monolith- Foundation, Stone, and Mortar

5. The Problem with 'Helicopter Parenting'

6. How Christianity Can Save a Generation Adrift

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Books to read:

Of Rhetoric and Redemption in La Rioja by Dr. Jim Tallmon

The Rhetorical Situation by Lloyd Bitzer

The Philosophy of Rhetoric by George Campbell

Institutes of Oratory by Quintilian

Richard M. Weaver writings

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Dr. James Tallmon joins The Wittenberg Hour to discuss Tuesdays with Tallmon and C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy.

Episode questions: Why is C.S. Lewis so popular?  Why do many Lutherans find Lewis' writing so appealing?

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Books to read:

The Space Trilogy by C.S. Lewis

Heaven on Earth by Rev. Dr. Arthur Just

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Wittenberg Academy joins the ranks of podcasts. 

Episode question: What makes classical Lutheran education so great?

Answer: It gives scholars that which endures, by means of that which has endured, that they may endure.

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Books to read:

Lutheran Education: From Wittenberg to the Future by Rev. Dr. Thomas Korcok

Orations on Philosophy and Education by Philip Melanchthon