225 episodes
Keeping Faith & Breaking Ground The Cornerstone Forum
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Without Christianity neither the nature of the present crisis of culture nor the meaning of history itself can be properly comprehended. If the Christian revelation is to come to our aid in this moment of peril, we must learn to account for its sweeping claims in ways that are faithful to Church teachings, intellectually cogent, morally rigorous, charitable, anthropologically sound, and undeterred by the moribund spirit of our age.
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Abide With Us
An excerpt from the audiobook version of Gil Bailie's 2016 Angelico Press book, God's Gamble - the gravitational power of crucified love. (The audiobook is available on Audible as well as other platforms)
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Billy Budd Part 4
Gil Bailie examines Herman Melville’s last novel as a case study of how the Christian Gospel is gradually undermining the legitimacy of the scapegoating mechanisms upon which cultures depend. The race between the message of the Gospel and the effects of the Gospel has begun. Will it lead to repentance or apocalypse?
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Billy Budd Part 3
Gil Bailie examines Herman Melville’s last novel as a case study of how the Christian Gospel is gradually undermining the legitimacy of the scapegoating mechanisms upon which cultures depend. The race between the message of the Gospel and the effects of the Gospel has begun. Will it lead to repentance or apocalypse?
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Billy Budd Part 2
Gil Bailie examines Herman Melville’s last novel as a case study of how the Christian Gospel is gradually undermining the legitimacy of the scapegoating mechanisms upon which cultures depend. The race between the message of the Gospel and the effects of the Gospel has begun. Will it lead to repentance or apocalypse?
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Billy Budd Part 1
Gil Bailie examines Herman Melville’s last novel as a case study of how the Christian Gospel is gradually undermining the legitimacy of the scapegoating mechanisms upon which cultures depend. The race between the message of the Gospel and the effects of the Gospel has begun. Will it lead to repentance or apocalypse?
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Creation, Fall, & Sacrifice Part 8
Is there a main theme, a discernable underlying story, perhaps a real story that informs the myriad biblical narratives? Gil Bailie believes there is and leads the listener on a voyage of discovery into the biblical texts.
This eight part series explores the biblical themes of creation, fall, and sacrifice as depicted in various stories related in the biblical texts using the interpretive tools made available in René Girard's mimetic theory.