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General Introduction
- David’s new baby
- Last weeks of the semester
- Bewildering listener feedback
- A plug from Homebrewed Christianity

Historicize!
- 9/11
- Bush vs. Gore
- The rise of Fox News
- The origin of red and blue states

The Division
- Haves and also-haves
- City and country
- Religious divides
- Humility and egotism

Ten Years On
- The spread of NASCAR
- When partisanship gets dangerous
- High-spending Republicans
- Who’s driving the party?
- Regional differences

Good and Bad Partisanship
- Stuff can’t get done
- Why gridlock is good

Blue Islands in Red Oceans
- Students and professors
- Where professors live
- Who else votes democrat?
- The UGA suburb machine
- Why don’t college students vote?

The Upcoming Election
- Blurgh
- Nathan’s endorsement
- Who will win in November?

General Introduction
- Where’s Grubbs?
- Listener feedback
- Thanks to CWC

What’s So Outrageous?
- Empirical verifiability
- The problems with this model
- A rabbit trail about rhetoric
- Everyone else’s assumptions
- Scientism in the 21^st century
- Self-policing, not persecution

How Viable Is Postmodernism?
- Depends on your discipline
- Poststructuralists’ aging out
- Interdisciplinary cultural studies
- Critical theory vs. poststructuralism
- Internalization

The Golden Rule of Scholarly Discourse
- Cut the slack to others you would want cut for yourself
- Decrying atomism
- Potshots galore!
- Gilmourism vs. atomism
- Nothing buttery on either side

Methodological Secularization
- Methodological naturalism
- Specialization
- Chicks dig the long ball
- Historicize! Historicize!
- The abuse of subjectivity

What We’d Add
- The role of Christian colleges
- The role of scholarship in the Christian college

Prognostication and Evaluation
- Christian networks in secular schools
- But how will the Academy change?
- The state university in decline
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Berlin, James. Rhetoric and Reality: Writing Instruction in American Colleges, 1900-1985. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1987.

Derrida, Jacques. Dissemination. Trans. Barbara Johnson. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1983.

—. The Gift of Death. Trans. David Wills. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2007.

—. Of Hospitality. Trans. Rachel Bowlby. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford UP, 2000.

Marsden, George. The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship. New York: Oxford UP, 1998.

General Introduction
- David’s baby
- On Philip Cary
- Toccoa Falls vs. Emmanuel

Autobiography Pre-Augustine
- Caesar in the third person
- Presenting the self as persona
- St. Paul’s miniature autobiographies
- Marcus Aurelius thanks his friends
- Old Testament sources

Augustine’s Confessions
- God and the I
- Starting at the beginning (the very beginning!)
- Arrogance and humility
- Theological reality as context
- The philosophical books
- The self as allegory

Biography, Autobiography
- The inward turn
- Memory and conscience
- Competitive urges
- What authority?

The Enlightenment Autobiography
- Reason and faith
- Didacticism
- The social biography
- The slave narrative
- Empiricism

The Contemporary Memoir
- What should we expect from it?
- The memoirist’s obligation to his readers
- The memoirist’s obligation to his friends
- To what does the autobiographer owe allegiance?
- The didactic novel

Our Recommendations
- Stanley Hauerwas
- C.S. Lewis
- Margery Kempe
- Frederick Buechner
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Augustine. Confessions. Trans. Henry Chadwick. New York: Oxford UP, 2009.

Buechner, Frederick. Now and Then. New York: HarperOne, 1991.

Douglass, Frederick and Harriet Jacobs. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. New York: Modern Library, 2004.

Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography. New York: Oxford UP, 2009.

Frey, James. A Million Little Pieces. New York: Anchor, 2005.

Julian of Norwich. Revelations of Divine Love. Seattle: CreateSpace, 2012.

Julius Caesar. The Gallic Wars. Trans. Carolyn Hammond. New York: Oxford UP, 2008.

Hauerwas, Stanley. Hannah’s Child. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2010.

Kempe, Margery. The Book of Margery Kempe. New York: Norton, 2000.

Lewis, C.S. Surprised by Joy. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.

Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. Trans. G.M.A. Grube. New York: Simon and Brown, 2012.

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Ecce Homo. Trans. Duncan Large. New York: Oxford UP, 2009.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Confessions. New York: Penguin, 1953.

General Introduction
- Disappointing David Grubbs
- Listener feedback
- Stroking and broking the ego
- (Yeah, my math is off)
- A correction
- Theologico et Ratio

Translations
- Old Lady Sayers
- End notes, not footnotes
- Reproducing rhyme and meter
- Ciardi’s middle ground
- Musa, king of Dante
- Wikipedia as savior
- The advantages of reading in translation

Footnotes
- C.S. Lewis gets snobby
- Thundercats and Plutarch
- Spreading our ignorance

Poet and Persona
- It gets better
- Guelphs and Gibilines
- Who is Beatrice?
- How much biography is necessary?
- The pleasures of rereading

Poet as Synthesizer
- Dante’s debt to the Nicomachean Ethics
- How approachable is Aristotle?
- The Philosopher says these things
- Looking up the footnotes
- Nathan’s favorite Thomist
- Social virtue

Medieval Cosmology
- David lectures
- What Lewis says
- Hierarchies and boundaries

Virgil
- The Guide
- Soul-sorting in The Aeneid
- Violating the social contract
- Dante’s poetic furniture
- How good is The Aeneid?
- David defends Orlando Furioso

Mythological Sources
- The absence of Homer
- The venerable Edith Hamilton

Later Dantes
- Hart Crane goes underground
- Cheever’s suburban inferno
- The Burial of the Dead
- O’Connor’s Purgatory
- Who hears Prufrock’s story?

Our Advice
- Read the other two!
- Don’t try to understand every reference
- Train yourself
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Ariosto, Ludovico. Orlando Furioso. Trans. Guido Waldman. New York: Oxford UP, 2008.

Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. Trans. Terence Irwin. New York: Hackett, 1999.

Cheever, John. The Stories of John Cheever. New York: Vintage, 2000.

Crane, Hart. The Bridge. New York: Liveright, 1992.

Dante. The Divine Comedy. Trans. John Ciardi. New York: NAL, 2003.

—. The Divine Comedy. Trans. Allen Mandlebaum. New York: Bantam, 1982. 3 volumes.

—. The Divine Comedy. Trans. Mark Musa. New York: Penguin, 2002. 3 volumes.

—. The Divine Comedy. Trans. Dorothy L. Sayers. New York: Penguin, 1955. 3 volumes.

Eliot, T.S. The Waste Land. New York: Norton, 2000.

Hamilton, Edith. Mythology. Boston: Back Bay, 1998.

Homer. The Odyssey. Trans. E.V. Rieu. New York: Penguin, 2003.

Lewis, C.S. The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature. New York: Cambridge UP, 1994.

—. The Great Divorce. New York: HarperOne, 2009.

MacIntyre, Alasdair. A Short History of Ethics: A History of Moral Philosophy from the Homeric Age to the Twentieth Century. South Bend, IN: U of Notre Dame P, 1998.

O’Connor, Flannery. The Complete Stories. Ed. Sally Fitzgerald. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1971.

Virgil. The Aeneid. Trans. Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin, 2010.

General Introduction
- What song is in David’s heart?
- Good Monday
- When does Spring Break start?
- Listener feedback

Moses in the Desert
- God’s three names
- What tense is God’s I in?
- Self-definition, inscrutability
- Ground of being
- The past and the future
- The Tetragram
- Jewish humor and the Hebrew Bible

The Historical-Critical Method
- Starting with close reading
- Classical philology
- The witness of the Divine Name
- Wellhausen’s conscience
- Our exposure to JEPD

The Conservative Reaction
- The global scope of The Fundamentals
- Mocking Canadians
- How fair is The Fundamentals?
- What offends Fundamentalists?
- Why R.A. Torrey is not a hillbilly

The Liberal Approach
- How Higher Criticism conceives of freedom
- Anti-authority
- Uber-Protestantism
- Sapere Aude!

JEPD and the Middle Ages
- Grubbs can find nothing
- Was Spinoza the first?
- A brief history of the names of God in Medieval theology

The Liberal Mono-Voice
- Other Guilty Parties
- Poisoning the Well
- Ehrman’s logical leaps
- Why historicity and argument matter
- The Club on the Straw Man

Our Advice
- David Grubbs talks Beowulf
- What does inspiration mean?
- A reasonable disagreement
- Rethinking the method of transmission
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Friedman, Richard Elliott. Who Wrote the Bible? New York: HarperOne, 1987.

Kant, Immanuel. An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? New York: Penguin, 2010.

McDowell, Josh. More Evidence That Demands a Verdict. New York: Campus Crusade for Christ, 1975.

Torrey, R.A. and A.C. Dixon. The Fundamentals. Ada, MI: Revell, 1994. 4 volumes.

Weaver, Richard. Language Is Sermonic. Baton Rouge: Lousiana State UP, 1985.

Wellhausen, Julius. Prolegomena to the History of Ancient Israel. Seattle: Bibliolife, 2009.

General Introduction
- Listener feedback
- Who’s listening?
- What’s on the blog?
- Formatting a dissertation

The Patience of Job
- The patience of Job?
- Gregory the Great (again!)
- Shall we blame his friends?
- The plurality of wisdom literature
- Interrogating James
- Humility and patience

New Testament Patience
- Fruit of the Spirit
- Macrothumia: “being long of will”
- Perseverance and endurance
- The time between times
- Multiple patiences

Augustine and Patience
- Yeah, it’s in there
- Good temper
- Patience as species of anger
- Patristic adaptations
- Nathan beats another dead horse

Stoic Patience
- Implication rather than statement
- Thinking clearly about reality
- Our arbitrary world
- One thing leads to another
- Stoicism and Christianity
- Self-control and love

Literary Exemplars
- The patient Griselda
- Abusing patience
- Fabius Maximus as patient dictator
- Olaf, glad, big, and patient
- Defending Booker T. Washington

Learning Patience
- Practical, not intellectual
- Personal virtue
- The Greek and the Christian
- Modeling God’s patience
- Interconnectedness

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics. Trans. Terence Irwin. New York: Hackett, 1999.

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. New York: Oxford UP, 2008.

Cummings, E.E. Complete Poems, 1904-1962. New York: Liveright, 1994.

Epictetus. Enchiridion. Trans. George Long. Seattle: CreateSpace, 2011.

Gregory the Great. Morals on Book of Job. Trans. John Henry Parker. Charleston, SC: BiblioBazaar, 2010.

Marcus Aurelius. Meditations. New York: Simon and Brown, 2012.

Markus, R.A. Saeculum: History and Society in the Theology of St. Augustine. New York: Cambridge UP, 1989.

Tertullian. The Writings of Tertullian. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger, 2004.

Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologicae. New York: Christian Classics, 1981. 5 volumes.

Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery. New York: Tribeca, 2011.

General Introduction
- Talking weather
- Listener feedback

The Roots of the Episode
- Who studies the Alamo?
- Davids Grubbs, Crockett, and Bowie
- Stories, not definitions

The Courage of Joshua
- Be strong and courageous
- His previous courage
- Courage as species of faith
- Obeying the law as precondition of courage
- Linguistic curiosity

Thomistic Valor
- How did Thomas adapt Aristotle?
- Fortitude, not manliness
- Martyrs over soldiers
- Daring vs. fortitude

Homeric Bravery
- Courage in the face of absurdity
- Courage as the highest virtue
- The greatest courage in the poem
- Is Achilles invincible?
- Crappy movies

Anglo-Saxon Bravery
- Tolkien weighs in
- The dreary ending
- Nathan complicates matters
- Lost cause-ism

Two Eras of Poetry
- Tennyson’s ambivalent skepticism
- The living dead become the dead dead
- Owen returns the ticket
- Dulce et decorum est pro amico mori

Other Examples
- Camus twists Thomas
- Crane twists Aristotle

Average Everdayness Courage
- The lessons of Joshua
- Spoiling Lord Jim
- Nathan dodges the question
- Platonic rather than Aristotelian courage
- Can courage be allegorized?

General Introduction
- What’s not on the blog?
- Thus begins the triptych of spring 2012

New Testament Humility
- The ethics of humility
- The Golden Rule, further
- Christ’s kenosis and ours
- Greatness requires great humility
- Gregory the Great Servant

Thomist Humility
- Aristotelian balance
- Seven virtues
- The interconnectedness of virtue
- Humility as check on magnanimity

Dante’s Terrace of the Prideful
- Exemplary statues
- The triple humility of the Annunciation
- David’s humble showmanship
- Trajan as model for Christian humility
- Justice needs humility
- The trials of the proud

Nietzsche Deconstructs Humility
- Return to pagan morality
- Inversion of master and slave
- Socratic and Christian humility
- Freud’s Neurotic Humility
- Modern self-esteem

Literary Humility
- The quiet hobbit
- Whitman’s egotheism
- Rebel rebel angels join the chorus

Humility as Tool of the Powerful
- Philippians as cure
- Quiet oppression
- The example of Africa
- Thomas’ pre-solution
- What isn’t humility?
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica. Trans. Fathers of the English Dominican Province. New York: Christian Classics, 1981. Five Volumes.

Dante. The Divine Comedy. Trans. Mark Musa. New York: Penguin, 2002. Three Volumes.

Franklin, Benjamin. Autobiography. New York: Norton, 2012.

Milton, John. The Complete Poems. New York: Norton, 2004.

Nietzsche, Friedrich. Thus Spoke Zarathustra. Trans. Adrian del Caro. New York: Cambridge UP, 2006.

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Lord of the Rings. Seattle: Mariner, 2005.

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass. New York: Modern Library, 1993.

General Introduction
- Dr. Gilmour!!!
- We kid because we envy
- Listener feedback
- The delay in show notes
- What’s on the blog?

What Is Epistemology?
- It’s all indirectly Greek to me
- Mise en abyme
- Connection to metaphysics
- Epistemology junkies
- Invoking epistemology to affirm or deny metaphysics

Ancient Epistemology
- Forms and objects in Plato
- Another remove
- Innate knowledge
- Aristotelian observation
- Telos and the individual object
- Thomist epistemology and Thomist metaphysics
- The necessity of divine illumination

Descartes’ Epistemological Turn
- Hidey hidey hidey ho
- Doubt everything
- Je pense donc je suis!
- Augustinian influence
- Descartes’ unsatisfactory solution
- The Cartesian Reese’s cup
- The difficulty of refuting rationalists

The Rise of Empiricism
- Building ideas
- Nathan’s favorite skeptical atheist
- The elimination of causality
- Today’s inconsistent empiricists
- The cult of the scientist

Kant! Kant! Kant!
- The best(?) of both worlds
- Kant is hard
- Noumena and phenomena
- A priori categories
- On hating Kant more than you love Jesus
- Kant’s relationship to Hume

Post-Kantian Epistemology
- Analytic and continental
- Logical positivism and its heirs
- Hegel’s ghosts and organs
- Thomas Kuhn and the historical scientific question
- The epistemological humility of the Emergent Church
- Pragmatism

What Difference Does It Make?
- The message we must spread
- Breaking apart from the age
- Correcting the mistakes of others
- Avoiding the whig view of history

BIBLIOGRAPHY
Aristotle. Metaphysics. Trans. Hugh Lawson-Tancred. New York: Penguin, 1999.

Augustine. Confessions. Trans. Henry Chadwick. New York: Oxford UP, 2009.

Ayer, A.J. Language, Truth, and Logic. New York: Dover, 1952.

Berkeley, George. Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. New York: Penguin, 1988.

Descartes, Rene. Discourse on Method and Meditations. Trans. Elizabeth S. Haldane and G.R.T. Ross. New York: Dover, 2003.

Hegel, G.W.F. Phenomenology of History. Trans. A.V. Miller. New York: Oxford UP, 2009.

Hume, David. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: And Other Writings. New York: Cambridge UP, 2007.

Jones, Tony. The Church Is Flat: The Relational Ecclesiology of the Emerging Church Movement. Minneapolis: JoPa, 2011.

Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Pure Reason. Ed. Paul Guyver and Allen W. Wood. New York: Cambridge UP, 1999.

—. Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics. Trans. James W. Ellington. New York: Hackett, 2002.

Kuhn, Thomas. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1996.

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von. Discourse on Metaphysics and Other Essays. Trans. Daniel Garber and Roger Ariew. New York: Hackett, 1991.

Lewis. C.S. “On the Reading of Old Books.” God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 1994.

Locke, John. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. New York: Oxford UP, 1979.

Peirce, C.S. The Essential Peirce, Volume 1: Selected Philosophical Writings, 1867-1893. Ed. Christian J.W. Kloesel. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1992.

Plato. Protagoras and Meno. Trans. Adam Beresford. New York: Penguin, 2006.

—. Republic. Trans. Allan Bloom. New York: Basic, 1991.

Thomas Aquinas. Summa Theologica. Allen, TX: Christian Classics, 1981.