Reflections on the Christian imagination and philosophical theology by Duncan Reyburn, PhD.
Episodes
Monday Sep 17, 2018
Monday Sep 17, 2018
This podcast is an audio recording of the first chapter of Seeing Things As They Are: GK Chesterton and the Drama of Meaning (Cascade, 2016), read by the author, Duncan Reyburn. The book can be found here:
https://wipfandstock.com/seeing-things-as-they-are.htm
More on the book: "The jovial journalist, philosopher, and theologian G. K. Chesterton felt that the world was almost always in permanent danger of being misjudged or even overlooked, and so the pursuit of understanding, insight, and awareness was his perpetual preoccupation. Being sensitive to the boundaries and possibilities of perception, he was always encouraging his audience to find a clear view of things. His belief was that it really is possible, albeit in a limited way, to see things as they are. This book, which marries Chesterton's unique perspective with the discipline of philosophical hermeneutics, aims to outline what Chesterton can teach us about reading, interpreting, and participating in the drama of meaning as it unfolds before us in words and in the world. Strictly speaking, of course, Chesterton is not a hermeneutic philosopher, but his vast body of work involves important hermeneutic considerations. In fact, his unique interpretive approach seems to be the subtext and implicit fascination of all Chesterton scholarship to date, and yet this book is the first to comprehensively focus on the issue. By taking Chesterton back to his philosophical roots—via his marginalia, his approach to literary criticism, his Platonist-Thomist metaphysics, and his Catholic theology—this book explicitly and compellingly tackles the philosophical assumptions and goals that underpin his unique posture towards reality."
Monday Sep 03, 2018
Monday Sep 03, 2018
This episode forms part of a unique approach to the enneagram of personality called the enneagram of mimetic desire. This approach combines insights from mimetic psychology (informed especially by the thinking of René Girard and J-M Oughourlian) and various teachings on the enneagram to create a tool for discerning how desire works through us and those around us. The broader aim of the enneagram of mimetic desire is to help us to notice the desires we’re emulating and to figure out those desires that bring us into conflict with us, and in so doing to help us to better navigate our relationships.
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Twitter: @duncanreyburn
Email: unorthodoxy@zoho.com
Monday Aug 27, 2018
Monday Aug 27, 2018
This episode forms part of a unique approach to the enneagram of personality called the enneagram of mimetic desire. This approach combines insights from mimetic psychology (informed especially by the thinking of René Girard and J-M Oughourlian) and various teachings on the enneagram to create a tool for discerning how desire works through us and those around us. The broader aim of the enneagram of mimetic desire is to help us to notice the desires we’re emulating and to figure out those desires that bring us into conflict with us, and in so doing to help us to better navigate our relationships.
Support this podcast: patreon.com/unorthodoxy
Twitter: @duncanreyburn
Email: unorthodoxy@zoho.com
Monday Aug 20, 2018
Monday Aug 20, 2018
This episode forms part of a unique approach to the enneagram of personality called the enneagram of mimetic desire. This approach combines insights from mimetic psychology (informed especially by the thinking of René Girard and J-M Oughourlian) and various teachings on the enneagram to create a tool for discerning how desire works through us and those around us. The broader aim of the enneagram of mimetic desire is to help us to notice the desires we’re emulating and to figure out those desires that bring us into conflict with us, and in so doing to help us to better navigate our relationships.
Support this podcast: patreon.com/unorthodoxy
Twitter: @duncanreyburn
Email: unorthodoxy@zoho.com
Monday Aug 13, 2018
Monday Aug 13, 2018
This episode forms part of a unique approach to the enneagram of personality called the enneagram of mimetic desire. This approach combines insights from mimetic psychology (informed especially by the thinking of René Girard and J-M Oughourlian) and various teachings on the enneagram to create a tool for discerning how desire works through us and those around us. The broader aim of the enneagram of mimetic desire is to help us to notice the desires we’re emulating and to figure out those desires that bring us into conflict with us, and in so doing to help us to better navigate our relationships.
Support this podcast: patreon.com/unorthodoxy
Twitter: @duncanreyburn
Email: unorthodoxy@zoho.com
Monday Jul 23, 2018
Monday Jul 23, 2018
This episode forms part of a unique approach to the enneagram of personality called the enneagram of mimetic desire. This approach combines insights from mimetic psychology (informed especially by the thinking of René Girard and J-M Oughourlian) and various teachings on the enneagram to create a tool for discerning how desire works through us and those around us. The broader aim of the enneagram of mimetic desire is to help us to notice the desires we’re emulating and to figure out those desires that bring us into conflict with us, and in so doing to help us to better navigate our relationships.
Support this podcast: patreon.com/unorthodoxy
Twitter: @duncanreyburn
Email: unorthodoxy@zoho.com
Monday Jul 16, 2018
Monday Jul 16, 2018
This episode forms part of a unique approach to the enneagram of personality called the enneagram of mimetic desire. This approach combines insights from mimetic psychology (informed especially by the thinking of René Girard and J-M Oughourlian) and various teachings on the enneagram to create a tool for discerning how desire works through us and those around us. The broader aim of the enneagram of mimetic desire is to help us to notice the desires we’re emulating and to figure out those desires that bring us into conflict with us, and in so doing to help us to better navigate our relationships.
Support this podcast: patreon.com/unorthodoxy
Twitter: @duncanreyburn
Email: unorthodoxy@zoho.com
Monday Jul 09, 2018
Monday Jul 09, 2018
This episode forms part of a unique approach to the enneagram of personality called the enneagram of mimetic desire. This approach combines insights from mimetic psychology (informed especially by the thinking of René Girard and J-M Oughourlian) and various teachings on the enneagram to create a tool for discerning how desire works through us and those around us. The broader aim of the enneagram of mimetic desire is to help us to notice the desires we’re emulating and to figure out those desires that bring us into conflict with us, and in so doing to help us to better navigate our relationships.
Support this podcast: patreon.com/unorthodoxy
Twitter: @duncanreyburn
Email: unorthodoxy@zoho.com
Seeing Things as They Are: GK Chesterton and the Drama of Meaning: https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Things-They-Are-Chesterton/dp/1498231888/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1529923816&sr=8-1
Monday Jul 02, 2018
Monday Jul 02, 2018
In this episode, a few more questions are answered, which relate to (1) the story of this podcast, (2) the distinction between faith, hope and love, (3) if and how we can know about God, (4) how to grow using personality typologies like the enneagram, MBTI, big 5, etc. Useful books on the MBTI: Jung, 'Personality Types'; Quenk, 'Was That Really Me?' Then, Michael Pierce's MBTI typology chanel on YouTube is the best one I know of in terms of its depth and insights:
Michael Pierce: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmDcT_Pujk8vOcxk_IcnxtQ
Email: unorthodoxy@zoho.com
Twitter: @duncanreyburn
Support: patreon.com/unorthodoxy
Monday Jun 25, 2018
Monday Jun 25, 2018
In this epside, we’re going to look at an answer to just one question: "When reading the gospels, and especially focusing on the life, death and resurrection of Jesus, how might we mediate between literalist interpretations and more 'Gnostic' or mythological interpretations of the story without necessarily getting stuck in a simplistic either/or? In other words, is there a middle-ground between reading Jesus as the God-Man and reading Jesus as myth?
Support this podcast: patreon.com/unorthodoxy
Twitter: @duncanreyburn
Email: unorthodoxy@zoho.com