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Sinopse
Reflections on the Christian imagination and philosophical theology by Dr. Duncan B. Reyburn.
Episódios
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171 | Kafkatrapping and metaphysical boredom
08/09/2022 Duração: 29minYou can support my work here (if you'd like to): patreon.com/unorthodoxy Subscribe to my substack: duncanreyburn.substack.com
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170 | When the dragon eats the knight
15/07/2022 Duração: 24minSome reflections on the nature of the demon called liberalism. See also: https://duncanreyburn.substack.com/p/when-the-dragon-eats-the-knight
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169 | The prophet and the prostitute
18/05/2022 Duração: 23minIn a strange but philosophically potent story told in the Hebrew Bible, God gives his prophet Hosea some rather odd instructions. God commands Hosea to take for himself a wife of “whoredom” and to raise “children of whoredom” (Hosea 1:2). Hosea will be committed to a focused point of attention. He will be a symbol of the monogamy that loves and cherishes one woman no matter what. But his wife Gomer will remain promiscuous and inattentive. Because she will always look elsewhere for companionship, she will never love very deeply and she will struggle perpetually to receive love. As we'll explore in this episode, this story is mainly about worship. It symbolises the way meaning is made manifest depending on how we attend to reality. In a sense, attention is reality. What we worship determines what sort of meaning we’ll find.
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168 | To render identity consumable
22/04/2022 Duração: 21minAvailable in text here: https://duncanreyburn.substack.com/p/to-render-identity-consumable
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167 | The Hidden (Mirthful) Face of Christ
24/03/2022 Duração: 26minA recording of a paper delivered during an online conference, Philosophical Theologies in South Africa (hosted by Hugenote Kollege) on 24 March 2022. Abstract: At the very end of his book Orthodoxy (1908), G. K. Chesterton makes a claim regarding the “pathos” of Christ, which was “natural,” and “almost casual.” However, Chesterton contends that one dimension of Christ’s pathos remained remarkably hidden, namely his “mirth.” The word “mirth” is quite literally the last word of that book. Because we have no record of Jesus laughing in the Gospels, just as we have no idea what he actually looked like, this conclusion is offered as a matter of fancy. It is perhaps not unexpected that Chesterton would say this, though, given his own personality and inclinations. Those familiar with his work will recognise his association with joy and humour. Since Chesterton offers no explicit justification, however, the question remains open as to whether there may be more than a merely subjective reason for it. Perhaps it is pos
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166 | (Critical) Thinking
10/03/2022 Duração: 38minA lecture on a foundation for critical thinking.
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165 | Man’s Search for Meming
25/01/2022 Duração: 21minA brief exploration of memes, via what we might joking call the will to meming, as expressions of our desire to make sense of the world. You can catch this podcast on various platforms: Amazon Audible, Spotify, Google, Apple, and Podbean. You can read a transcript of this episode here: https://duncanreyburn.substack.com/p/mans-search-for-meming
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164 | Understanding Creativity - 04 - Analogy
24/05/2021 Duração: 18minIn this last episode in this brief series on understanding creativity, we look at how analogy functions as the core of cognition; and conclude with a few thoughts on assessing whether our creative ideas are any good. Support: patreon.com/unorthodoxy Twitter: @duncanreyburn
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163 | Understanding Creativity - 03 - Meaning
10/05/2021 Duração: 14minIn this episode, we look at how meaning-finding and meaning-making work in relation to creativity with reference to Chekhov's famous so-called gun. Support: patreon.com/unorthodoxy Twitter: @duncanreyburn
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162 | Understanding Creativity - 02 - Insight
26/04/2021 Duração: 21minWe're briefly exploring some dimensions of creativity in four short episodes. In this episode, we explore how creativity is tied to insight. In this episode we look at what insight is, as well as how to find insights through pattern recognition and pattern naming. Support: Patreon.com/unorthodoxy Twitter: @duncanreyburn
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161 | Understanding Creativity - 01 - Revaluation
12/04/2021 Duração: 17minWe'll be taking a brief break from the Genesis of Meaning series to explore some dimensions of creativity. In this episode, we explore how creativity is more an issue of revaluation than of sheer novelty and the fact that this means attending to limits more than to the act of breaking out of them. Support: Patreon.com/unorthodoxy Twitter: @duncanreyburn
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160 | The Genesis of Meaning - 04 - Symbols
29/03/2021 Duração: 19minIn this series, we're exploring how the early chapters of the book of Genesis offer clues into a kind of phenomenology of perception — a way of speaking about our most primal experiences of meaning and of being in the world. Support: patreon.com/unorthodoxy
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159 | The Genesis of Meaning - 03 - Light
08/03/2021 Duração: 23minIn this series, we're exploring how the early chapters of the book of Genesis offer clues into a kind of phenomenology of perception — a way of speaking about our most primal experiences of meaning and of being in the world. Support: patreon.com/unorthodoxy
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158 | The Genesis of Meaning - 02 - Beginning
22/02/2021 Duração: 25minIn this series, we're exploring how the early chapters of the book of Genesis offer clues into a kind of phenomenology of perception — a way of speaking about our most primal experiences of meaning and of being in the world Support: patreon.com/unorthodoxy
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157 | The Genesis of Meaning - 01- Plausibility
08/02/2021 Duração: 24minIn this series, we'll be exploring how the early chapters of the book of Genesis offer clues into a kind of phenomenology of perception — a way of speaking about the most primal experiences we have of meaning and of being in the world Support: patreon.com/unorthodoxy
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156 | Q & A no. 15 - Miscellaneous
07/12/2020 Duração: 23minIn this episode, we'll be looking at a few questions on miscellaneous subjects.
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155 | Q & A no. 13 - Martyrdom
30/11/2020 Duração: 23minIn this episode, we'll be looking at the nature of martyrdom and what it means to face up to this mysterious protest against the mob.
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154 | Q & A no. 12 - Eucatastrophe
02/11/2020 Duração: 14minWe'll be looking at 4 questions and 4 answers in this episode: 1) If GK Chesterton were alive today which aspects of today’s world do you think would most interest him? 2) What is the value, if any, of seeing “the news” as it exists on television, social media, etc.? 3) What is the proper way of understanding Darwinism in the context of Genesis? 4) What is the significance of the term “eucatastrophe”?
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153 | Q & A no. 11 - Introversion & Extroversion
26/10/2020 Duração: 14minIn this episode, I look at clarifying the difference between introversion and extroversion in Jung's book on Psychological Types, and also at some brief ideas around how Jungian typology interacts with the enneagram. Twitter: @duncanreyburn
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152 | Q & A no. 10 - Viral Politics
05/10/2020 Duração: 28minIn this episode, I answer this question: "I’m reading Camus’s The Plague and I’m at the point where fighting and grieving have become routine. They still track the numbers of deaths, but nobody thinks about what they mean. The US is at this point with COVID. Where do we go from here?” To do this, I explore how the "virus" acts as a structuring principle in fascism, deconstruction, and in online political squabbles, and then I look at a few key things that can help us (anyone really) to figure out "where ... we go from here".