The General Eclectic #3.1 "The Death and Life of Benedict"

Kale and Rod kick off season 3 to discuss liminal thinkers and the breaking up of old frames to see through, and the emergence of new ones. Standing inside and outside affords new perspectives.They go on to discuss Rod's attendance at the funeral for Pope Benedict XVI, what he saw, and how to make sense out of this giant of the 20th century. Are we in the time of Antichrist? Jumping off from Seewald's magisterial biography of Ratzinger/Benedict, we talk about what he meant and what he means.topics and links (some of these are affiliate links, fyi): -Mary Harrington (@moveincircles) and Louise Perry (@louise_m_perry) as rethinkers from alternate priors: Mary's Feminism Against Progress and Louise's The Case Against the Sexual Revolution. -Joseph Ratzinger's New Paganism address -Rod's 2002 NR Cover story on Catholicism and The Netherlands -the myth of the "Panzer Pope" and the gentle, monk-scholar -Rod's Benedict "Lessons from the funeral" and here -Robert Knapp's The Dawn of Christianity -Ratzinger and the rise of the time of AntiChrist -Sochi The Secret of Benedict -NT Wright's Revelations for Everyone -Benedict as katechon -Peter Seewald's Volume 1 and Volume 2 of the Biography of Benedict