After a few misfires and foul-ups, I'm proud to announce that the first episode of my podcast with Nathan Gilmour and David Grubbs, "The Christian Humanist." We'll be recording these every Tuesday (at least this semester...things can always change) on a variety of topics. (We've got the first six or seven lined up, and they look like winners to me.) We've submitted the episode to iTunes, so it'll be up there before too long, and you can subscribe to it there if you are so inclined. I'll also post a link to the MP3 and the show notes here each week. Happy listening, and let us know what you think!Episode #1: What Is Christian Humanism?
General Introduction
Definitions of Humanism
- “Secular humanism”
- Study of the humanities—discipline and education
- “Philosophy is the handmaiden of theology”
Humanism in the Early Church and the Medieval Era
- Justin Martyr’s adaptation of the Logos
- Tertullian’s rejection of Athens
- Alfred the Great as humanist
Humanism in the Renaissance
- Desiderius Erasmus vs. Martin Luther
- Francisco Suarez as heir of Aquinas
- John Milton’s classicism
- Francis Bacon’s New Science
General and Special Revelation
- John Calvin, the Seneca scholar
- Is Christian humanism intellectual arrogance?
20th- and 21st-century Humanism
- New Critics
- “Heroic Critics”
- The dismantling of the Canon
- Christian colleges and humanism
Theological Objections to Christian Humanism
- Pauline objection
- Augustinian objection
- Barthian objection
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Arnold, Matthew. Culture and Anarchy. New York: Oxford UP, 2006.
Augustine. Confessions. Trans. Henry Chadwick. New York: Oxford UP, 1998.
Bacon, Francis. The New Organon. Ed. Lisa Jardine and Michael Silverthorne. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2000.
Barth, Karl. Church Dogmatics: A Selection. Ed. Helmut Gollwitzer. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1994.
Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. New York: Riverhead, 1995.
Calvin, John. The Institutes of the Christian Religion. Trans. Ford Lewis Battles. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1960.
Carson, D.A. Christ and Culture Revisited. New York: Eerdmans, 2008.
Denby, David. Great Books. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1997.
Erasmus, Desiderius. The Praise of Folly and Other Writings. Ed. Robert M. Adams. New York: Norton, 1989.
Justin Martyr. The Writings of Justin Martyr. Ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson. Berkeley, Ca.: Apocryphile, 2007.
Kurtz, Paul. Humanist Manifestos I and II. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus, 1984.
L’Engle, Madeleine. Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art. New York: Shaw, 2001.
Milton, John. The Major Works. Ed. Stephen Orgel and Jonathan Goldberg. New York: Oxford UP, 2003.
Niebuhr, H. Richard. Christ and Culture. New York: Harper and Row, 1956.
Sayers, Dorothy L. The Mind of the Maker. New York: HarperOne, 1987.
Suarez, Francisco. On Creation, Conservation, and Concurrence: Metaphysical Disputations 20-22. Trans. Alfred J. Freddoso. Chicago: St. Augustine’s, 2002.
Tertullian. De Praescriptione Haereticorum ad Martyas. New York: General, 2009.
Tolkien, J.R.R. The Tolkien Reader. New York: Del Rey, 1986.
Trilling, Lionel. The Liberal Imagination. New York: New York Review of Books, 2008.
Links:
thechristianhumanist@gmail.com
Columbia University’s Literature Humanities
Bethel University’s Christianity and Western Culture
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