Nathan Gilmour discusses a chapter of Martha Nussbaum’s Cultivating Humanity with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs.
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Tag: Stanley Hauerwas
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode 207: A Letter Concerning Toleration
Nathan Gilmour discusses John Locke’s “Letter Concerning Toleration” with Michial Farmer and David Grubbs.
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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #201: The Praise of Folly
Download or stream this episode Nathan Gilmour leads David Grubbs and Michial Farmer in a discussion of Desiderius Erasmus’s mock-encomium The Praise of Folly.
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Christian Humanist Profiles 57: The Work of Theology
Download or Stream this Episode To work with wood changes the formal character of the matter, shaping what once was a tree into a house here and a table there; and at the same time[…]
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Book Review: After the New Atheist Debate
After the New Atheist Debate By Phil Ryan 196 pp. University of Toronto Press $22.95. Of all the books written regarding the “New Atheist” (hereafter, NA) phenomenon, this the first that I’ve seen that has attempted to[…]
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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #163: Listener Feedback
The Christian Humanists respond to listener emails. [0:00] An announcement from David Grubbs! [5:05] Why Christian Existentialism? [9:12] Kierkegaard and Christendom [17:41] John McAdams and academic freedom [27:09] More holy fools [30:15] Episode suggestions [35:43][…]
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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #161: The Devil Takes Visa
Nathan Gilmour leads David Grubbs and Michial Farmer in a discussion of Rodney Clapp’s 1996 article “Why the Devil Takes Visa.”
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Do Freshman Composition Students Have Minds?: A Response to Alex Genetti
Responding to our recent episode on Stanley Hauerwas’s essay “Honor in the University,” my former student Alex Genetti posed a fun question about the essay and the practice of teaching. If you haven’t listened to[…]
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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #155: Honor in the University
Nathan Gilmour leads Michial Farmer and David Grubbs in a discussion of Stanley Hauerwas’s cranky 1991 speech “Honor in the University.” Download episodes of The Christian Humanist Podcast
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Christian Humanist Profiles 9: A Very Critical Introduction to Hauerwas with Nicholas Healy
If we write, our best friends might just be those who write against us. Luther and Erasmus, both formidable thinkers, derive at least part of their well-earned place in the Church’s memory because of their fierce[…]
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