JUST FYI POD: IDEAS
SEASON 1, EPISODE 7: “Our Ten Favorite Theological Works: #5”
During the first season of Just FYI Pod: Ideas, my cohost Clark Elliston and I will countdown our ten favorite works of theology. On today’s episode, we turn to the #5 book on our respective lists. I will discuss Henri de Lubac’s 1944 opus The Drama of Atheist Humanism (Le drame de l’humanisme athée), while Clark examines Rowan Williams’ 2003 text Silence and Honey Cakes. These are very different works, though their authors share certain theological sensibilities. Indeed, as our conversation will make clear, both de Lubac and Williams believe that the God-relationship is essential to human flourishing—not just in an ethereal sense but here and now, in the midst of everyday life.
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De Lubac has been on my reading list for a while now so enjoyed listening to this. Is it fair to assume that he’d agree that a significant part of the spiritual battle is between two competing accounts of freedom: namely the classical account and the liberal? Good podcast guys!
I was interested in your comments about Christian existentialism. Didn’t Kierkegaard possess sort of a melancholy personality, full of “ angst and absurdity?” The father of Christian existentialism? I’ve not read much about Kierkegaard, you’re the expert. Did he have problems with organized religion in matters of faith? Dianne and I are members of a small Episcopal church, but consider ourselves more Anglican than Episcopalian. TEC is too progressive and is declining rapidly. It’s interesting that you were drawn into Catholicism. It seems to be one of the few that have held on to orthodoxy.