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This is a rare cross posting from the Maurin Academy’s other podcast, Dustbowl Diatribes. If you like this content, be sure to subscribe directly to Dustbowl Diatribes! … More The Call to Integral Liberation: An Interview With Dr. Larry Chapp (Dustbowl Diatribes, SO 2 Ep. 2)
Laurie discusses DC Schindler’s views on the limitations of liberal religious toleration and his argument for a better toleration that coincides with increased influence or even establishment of the Catholic Church. This subject allows Laurie to contrast Schindler’s views with those of Christian anarchists and anti-empire theologians, and to explore whether or not Schindler’s views are, in fact, utopian, or at least unconsciously still influenced by Enlightenment thinking. … More Should We Be More Tolerant–Or Will Our Brains Fall Out? (Politics of the Real 7)
Laurie discusses Ch. 5 of DC Schinder’s The Politics of the Real having to do with property and extends the reasoning into corporate property and the environment. … More The Meaning of Ownership (Politics of the Real 6)
In this segment of Laurie’s series on DC Schindler’s The Politics of the Real, she focuses on Schindler’s critique of liberal rights and his proposal for theorizing positive rights using teleological thinking. … More Redefining Rights: Positive, Teleological Right (Politics of the Real, 5)
Laurie focuses on chapter 3 of DC Schindler’s The Politics of the Real. In this chapter, Schindler argues that liberal structures cannot create real community, so even communitarian proposals for doing so fall short. Schindler also begins to hint at what he thinks would do so better. … More How Can Community Be Built? (Politics of the Real 4)
Laurie discusses Chapters 1 and 2 of DC Schindler’s The Politics of the Real: The Church Between Liberalism and Integralism, In this section, she concentrates on what Schindler thinks is the fallout of liberalism, what we’ve gained during the rise of liberalism, why “Nature’s God” is a generic or empty God, and why the American founding was not a Christian event. … More Was the American Founding a Christian Event? (Politics of the Real, 3)
Laurie discusses some of DC Schindler’s main themes in his introduction and first chapter in The Politics of the Real: The Church Between Liberalism and Integralism. Among the arguments Schindler makes that are challenging to contemporary sensibilities: that the combination of Christianity with Roman Institutions was not a mistake but somehow an unfolding of Christianity’s presence in the world, and that Liberalism is a “dis-incarnation” that strikes at the root of Christianity itself and is inherently atheistic. … More Liberalism vs. Christianity (DC Schindler’s The Politics of the Real–2)
Get ready for a series on DC Schindler’s The Politics of the Real: The Church Between Liberalism and Integralism. This video introduces Schindler as a scholar. I discuss why I want to read his book, and something of the larger context of which it is a part. What do we make of a book written primarily for a Catholic audience, and an informed one at that? How do we approach it–and why should we do so? … More The Politics of the Real by DC Schindler: Intro to Series
In this selection from the final session of Summer Seminar 2022 on Christian Anarchism, I discuss Dorothy Day’s background and motivation for co-founding the Catholic Worker movement with Peter Maurin. Dorothy Day is currently being considered for sainthood by the Catholic Church, and there is a growing interest in her philosophy and work.
The Maurin Academy’s next short series, on Agricultural biotechnology and information technology, will start in late August. Sign up on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/agriculture-biotechnology-the-information-economy-tickets-373417821757 … More Who Was Dorothy Day? (Christian Anarchism Clip 5)
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