A Cross Philosophy

A Cross Philosophy
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A look at developments in Christian thought, belief, and practice.

  1. 04/07/2021

    Origen of Alexandria

    Welcome! Please shoot me an email with feedback about the episode, suggestions for future episodes, or whatever! acrossphilosophy@gmail.com Or, leave a voice message for me! Just use the link: https://anchor.fm/a-cross-philosophy1/message Source material: Prayer of Origen https://acollectionofprayers.com/tag/origen/ Prologue to Commentary on the Song of Songs https://books.google.com/books?id=Mjxy0Fl7VMsC&pg=PA21&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false Matthew 19:11-12 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+19&version=NIV Matthew 5:27-30 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+5&version=NIV Readings of Scripture:           Body reading -- Text has a basic, "literal" meaning - the way it was written.           Soul reading -- Text has a "moral" meaning - how believers should live.           Spirit reading -- Text has a "Christ" meaning - relationship of Christ to the Church. 1 Corinthians 10:1-4 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+10&version=NIV Exodus 17:6-7 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=exodus+17&version=NIV Numbers 20:7-13 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=numbers+20&version=NIV Galatians 4:22-26 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=galatians+4&version=NIV On First Principles http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/04120.htm Hebrews 11:24-26 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=hebrews+11&version=NIV Origen in modern theology: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/03/27/its-not-important-if-the-bible-is-true-what-matters-is-that-its-real/

    34 min

  2. 07/04/2020 ·  Bonus

    Why are we doing this podcast?

    Welcome! Please shoot me an email with feedback about the episode, suggestions for future episodes, or whatever! acrossphilosophy@gmail.com   Or, leave a voice message for me! Just use the link: https://anchor.fm/a-cross-philosophy1/message  If you like the show, leave us some great & positive feedback. If you don't love the show, email me about how I can improve. Thanks for listening!  The Confessions of St. Augustine: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/hum100/augustinconf.pdf Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2500

    28 min

  3. 07/03/2020

    Thomas Aquinas

    Thanks for listening! Please send us an email with feedback about the episode, suggestions for future episodes, or whatever! acrossphilosophy@gmail.com    Or, leave a voice message for us! Just use the link: https://anchor.fm/a-cross-philosophy1/message Source material: On the Unity of the Intellect against the Averroists https://issuu.com/bouvard6/docs/saint_thomas_aquinas_beatrice_h Comparison/Contrast of Averroës and Aquinas https://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1758&context=phil_fac Summa Theologica https://www3.nd.edu/~afreddos/summa-translation/TOC.htm The 4 Causes:  1. Material cause = the stuff of matter--potentiality 2. Formal cause = the form of matter--its essence--God is the only being with complete actuality and essence, and is the only pure formal cause and needs no potentiality 3. Efficient cause = something that has an effect 4. Final cause = goal or purpose toward which a thing is oriented--the ultimate goal of humanity is to behold the Divine Essence The 5 Ways 1. Evidence of Motion 2. Effects must have causes; there must be a beginning cause. 3. Matter cannot create itself; there must be a way to account for the first matter. 4. The existence of gradations implies an ultimate starting point for comparison. 5. Behavior of things implies a Grand Designer.

    37 min

  4. 06/17/2020 ·  Bonus

    The Devil in the Belfry by Edgar Allan Poe

    Welcome! Please shoot me an email with feedback about the episode, suggestions for future episodes, or whatever! acrossphilosophy@gmail.com   Or, leave a voice message for me! Just use the link: https://anchor.fm/a-cross-philosophy1/message   Text of the story: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/POE/belfry.html Change is tough. What are we really holding onto when we resist change? Is tradition good or bad?

    27 min

  5. 05/23/2020

    Anselm of Canterbury

    Welcome! Please shoot me an email with feedback about the episode, suggestions for future episodes, or whatever! acrossphilosophy@gmail.com   Or, leave a voice message for me! Just use the link: https://anchor.fm/a-cross-philosophy1/message   Source material: Proslogium - https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/anselm-proslogium.asp Why the God-man? (Cur Deus Homo) - https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/anselm-curdeus.asp Anselm's ontological argument for the existence of God: By definition, God is the greatest possible being that can be imagined. God exists as an idea in the mind. A being that exists as an idea in the mind AND in reality is greater than a being that exists only as an idea in the mind. Thus, if God exists only as an idea in the mind, then we can imagine something that is greater than God. But we cannot imagine something that is greater than God (for it is a contradiction to imagine a being greater than the greatest possible being that can be imagined.) Therefore, God exists.

    31 min

  6. 05/23/2020

    Athanasius of Alexandria

    Welcome! Please shoot me an email with feedback about the episode, suggestions for future episodes, or whatever! acrossphilosophy@gmail.com  Or, leave a voice message for me! Just use the link: https://anchor.fm/a-cross-philosophy1/message  Source material:  Bible passages: https://www.biblegateway.com/  Prayer of Athanasius: https://classicalchristianity.com/2011/10/15/the-dying-prayer-of-st-athanasius/  On the Incarnation: https://www.ccel.org/ccel/athanasius/incarnation.ix.html  Nicene Creed, CE 325: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/nicenecreed.asp  Luke 1:34-35: “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.  2 Corinthians 13:14: May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.  Matthew 3:16-17: As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.”  Orations Against the Arians: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2816.htm

    31 min

  7. 05/11/2020

    Augustine of Hippo, pt 2

    This is the second installment about Augustine. I highly suggest you go listen to the first installment, if you have not already done so! Here's the link to Part 1: https://anchor.fm/a-cross-philosophy1/episodes/Augustine-of-Hippo--pt--1-ed89h1 Welcome! Please shoot me an email with feedback about the episode, suggestions for future episodes, or whatever! acrossphilosophy@gmail.com   Or, leave a voice message for me! Just use the link: https://anchor.fm/a-cross-philosophy1/message Source material: Augustine: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/ Plotinus: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plotinus/#Infl On the Trinity: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1301.htm The Confessions: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/hum100/augustinconf.pdf An Introduction to Augustine's Confessions: https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/augustine/introconf.html Romans 13: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+13&version=NIV The Confessions app: https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/unit/networkphoneconnect/VillanovaMobileApps/augustine-s-confessions.html

    37 min

  8. 05/11/2020

    Augustine of Hippo, pt. 1

    Welcome! Please shoot me an email with feedback about the episode, suggestions for future episodes, or whatever! acrossphilosophy@gmail.com   Or, leave a voice message for me! Just use the link: https://anchor.fm/a-cross-philosophy1/message    Source material:  Augustine: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/ Plotinus: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plotinus/#Infl On the Trinity: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1301.htm The Confessions: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/hum100/augustinconf.pdf An Introduction to Augustine's Confessions: https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/augustine/introconf.html Romans 13: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+13&version=NIV The Confessions app: https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/unit/networkphoneconnect/VillanovaMobileApps/augustine-s-confessions.html Part 2: https://anchor.fm/a-cross-philosophy1/episodes/Augustine-of-Hippo--pt-2-ed89eg

    34 min
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