“Saint Thomas, who was as simple as he was wise,” wrote Jacques Maritain, “defined the beautiful as that which, being seen, pleases: id quod visum placet. These four words say all that is necessary: a vision, that is to say, an intuitive knowledge, and a delight.”
At this summer’s Wyoming School of Catholic Thought, we began by looking at the Medieval cosmos. It is a beautiful vision that, alas, turns out not to be true. Then we looked at the modern vision—the vision of scientism—in which the universe is nothing but a randomly constituted result of elementary particles bumping into each other. It is a universe without goodness, beauty, or truth—save the truth (maybe) of mathematics and physics.
Yet the topic of our week together was, “Beauty is Truth: Science and the Catholic Imagination.”
After we reduced the Medieval cosmos to “fermions and bosons,” Dr. Jeremy Holmes began putting the world back together arguing that beauty is a necessary part of the scientific endeavor. His lecture was over an hour long, but will, I think, be well worth your time and concentration. Hearing it again brought great delight so, using Thomas' definition, it can be called a beautiful lecture.
Education at a Distance: Successes, Difficulties, and Lessons Learned with Dean Kyle Washut
Music, Worship, and Theology by Dr. Stanley Grove
Alexandre Solzhenitsyn "A World Split Apart": A Conversation Between Dr. Virginia Arbery and Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos
Learning to Love Poetry with Dr. Glenn Arbery
20th Century Music: Sounds that Kill, Sounds that Give Life, and No Sounds at All by Dr. Stanley Grove
John Keats "The Eve of St. Agnes": A Conversation Between Dr. Glenn Arbery and Dr. Tiffany Schubert
Faith and Reason in Dei Filius with Dr. Kent Lasnoski and Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Into the Lenten Desert: 7) “How to Perform Scripture: Lectio Divina and Reading with the Heart” by Dr. Jason Baxter
Sickness, Separation, Grief, and Holy Week by Prof. Kyle Washut
Into the Lenten Desert: 6) “Praying with the Whole World: Evagrios and ‘Natural Contemplation’” by Dr. Jason Baxter
Michael Behe and Irreducible Complexity with Dr. Scott Olsson and Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Into the Lenten Desert: 5) “Dionysius the Areopagite and the Darkness of God” by Dr. Jason Baxter
St. John Henry Newman on the Theotokos with Prof. Kyle Washut and Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Into the Lenten Desert 4) “Augustine’s Restless Heart and the Inward Turn: What Augustine Learned from the Pagans” by Dr. Jason Baxter
“Only on the bright edges of the world”: Man and Landscape in Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop with Ms Catherine Stypa
Into the Lenten Desert: 3) "Pagans Grope Toward God: Piety and Prayer in Classical Antiquity" by Dr. Jason Baxter
"The World is Too Much with Us": The Romantic Poetry of William Wordsworth with Dr. Tiffany Schubert
Into the Lenten Desert: 2) "How Did We Get Here: Why We Need the Medieval Masters" by Dr. Jason Baxter
The Oresteia: Vengence, Fury, and Justice with Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos
Into the Lenten Desert: 1) The Soul from Whom God Hides Nothing by Dr. Jason Baxter
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Heal, Survive & Thrive!
A Voice In The Darkness
Destiny Is Debatable (Formerly Ambiguously Blind)
جافکری | Jafekri
BPLUS بیپلاس پادکست فارسی خلاصه کتاب