BONUS EPISODE: Susannah Black Roberts - The Birth of Comedy

What is vitalism? Did the Lord Jesus fulfill the highest yearnings of the classical Greek and Roman world?

Brent talks Jesus, Homer, Nietzsche and Dionysius with Susannah Black Roberts, a senior editor of ‘Plough’ who has written for many publications including ‘First Things’, ‘Fare Forward’, ‘Front Porch Republic’ and ‘Mere Orthodoxy’.

• (1:00) What is vitalism?
• (4:15) American conservatism and vitalism;
• (5:15) Nietzsche’s ‘The Birth of Tragedy’ and Dionysian enthusiasm;
• (12:45) Death and the soul in Homer;
• (16:15) Then came Plato – his idea of the ‘good’;
• (17:30) Hope and Hades. Death is not the end!
• (20:30) The Lord Jesus as part of the Greek and Hellenized world;
• (23:00) Jesus and aristeia;
• (25:00) Is Jesus the greater Dionysius?

Links mentioned in this episode:

www.plough.com/en/authors/qr/susannah-black-roberts

mereorthodoxy.com/the-birth-of-comedy

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