Best Mark Augustine Podcasts (2024)

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Toby Green, "A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution" (U Chicago Press, 2019) 49:04

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All too often, the history of early modern Africa is told from the perspective of outsiders. In his book A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution (University of Chicago Press, 2019), Toby Green draws upon a range of underutilized sources to describe the evolution of West Africa over a period of four…

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Mark Peterson, "The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power" (Princeton UP, 2019) 2:23:07

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In the vaunted annals of America’s founding, Boston has long been held up as an exemplary “city upon a hill” and the “cradle of liberty” for an independent United States. Wresting this iconic urban center from these misleading, tired clichés, The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power (Princeton University Press, 2019), highli…

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James D. Fisher, "The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain, 1660–1800" (Cambridge UP, 2022) 56:20

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The rise of agrarian capitalism in Britain is usually told as a story about markets, land and wages. The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain, 1660–1800 (Cambridge University Press, 2022) by Dr. James Fisher reveals that it was also about books, knowledge and expertise. It argues that during the early modern perio…

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Meet the Author with Ken Huck – July 11, 2024 – Shaun McAfee “All Things Catholic: A Guide from A to Z” and Jason Jones “The Great Campaign Against the Great Reset” 55:29

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Ken talks with Shaun McAfee “All Things Catholic: A Guide from A to Z” (Sophia Institute Press)and Jason Jones “The Great Campaign Against the Great Reset” (Crisis Publications/Sophia Institute Press). Shaun’s book available at: https://sophiainstitute.com/product/all-things-catholic/ and Jason’s book at: https://sophiainstitute.com/product/the-gre…

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Lectio The Case for Jesus: The Crucifixion of Jesus 35:01

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Why would Jesus, who preached about the love of God, detachment form worldly goods, and love of one’s neighbor, be so violently opposed that his enemies arranged his execution? In this session, Dr. Pitre looks at the details surrounding Jesus’s trial and Death and what these details reveal about Jesus and his mission. Buy Your Bible on Catholic.Mar…

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Ed Simon, "Devil's Contract: A History of the Faustian Bargain" (Melville House, 2024) 50:31

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From ancient times to the modern world, the idea of the Faustian bargain—the exchange of one’s soul in return for untold riches and power—has exerted a magnetic pull upon our collective imaginations. In Devil's Contract: A History of the Faustian Bargain (Melville House, 2024), Dr. Ed Simon takes us on a historical tour of the Faustian bargain, fro…

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Tabitha Stanmore, "Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic" (Bloombury, 2024) 33:13

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Imagine: it's the year 1600 and you've lost your precious silver spoons, or maybe they've been stolen. Perhaps your child has a fever. Or you're facing a trial. Maybe you're looking for love or escaping a husband. What do you do? In medieval and early modern Europe, your first port of call might have been cunning folk: practitioners of “service mag…

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Elizabeth Storr Cohen and Marlee J. Couling, "Non-Elite Women's Networks Across the Early Modern World" (Amsterdam UP, 2023) 47:33

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Elizabeth Cohen, Professor Emerita at York University, joins Jana Byars to talk about her new volume, Non-Elite Women's Networks Across the Early Modern World (Amsterdam University Press, 2023), edited with Marilee Couling. Non-elite or marginalized early modern women-among them the poor, migrants, members of religious or ethnic minorities, abused …

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Timothy Grieve-Carlson, "American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius" (Oxford UP, 2024) 1:05:11

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American Aurora: Environment and Apocalypse in the Life of Johannes Kelpius (Oxford UP, 2024) explores the impact of climate change on early modern radical religious groups during the height of the Little Ice Age in the seventeenth century. Focusing on the life and legacy of Johannes Kelpius (1667-1707), an enormously influential but comprehensivel…

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Jeremy Black, "Defoe's Britain" (St. Augustine's Press, 2023) 24:15

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The Weight of Words Series continues with Defoe's Britain (St. Augustine's Press, 2023), as historian Jeremy Black uses this writer to interpret Britain in the late 1600s, and likewise looks to the times to interpret the fiction. As seen in previous studies on Christie, Smollett, Fielding, and the Gothic novelists, Black tells the story of the stor…

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Lectio The Case for Jesus: Did Jesus Claim to Be God? 32:07

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What answers can we give skeptics who think that the early Christians exaggerated stories about Jesus and made him out to be something he was not? Dr. Pitre takes an in-depth look at three particular New Testament passages that show Jesus’s revelation of his divinity and his disciples’ understanding that Jesus is the one true God. Buy Your Bible on…

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Fear and the Media (w/ Alec Liu) 1:10:10

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In today’s age, it can feel like every day we hear about how our political leaders and media institutions pray on fear. It’s very likely that you’ve been on the receiving end of it, or at least known people who have, where any number of sensationalist headlines, articles, or videos can take us into our more basic fear, and anxiety ridden states. We…

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Denva Gallant, "Illuminating the Vitae Patrum: The Lives of Desert Saints in Fourteenth-Century Italy" (Penn State UP, 2024) 52:54

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During the fourteenth century in Western Europe, there was a growing interest in imitating the practices of a group of hermits known as the Desert Fathers and Mothers. Laypeople and religious alike learned about their rituals not only through readings from the Vitae Patrum (Lives of the Desert Fathers) and sermons but also through the images that b…

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Nicola Clark, "The Waiting Game: The Untold Story of the Women Who Served the Tudor Queens" (Norton, 2024) 59:57

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Every Tudor Queen had ladies-in-waiting. They were her confidantes and her chaperones. Only the Queen's ladies had the right to enter her most private chambers, spending hours helping her to get dressed and undressed, caring for her clothes and jewels, listening to her secrets. But they also held a unique power. A quiet word behind the scenes, an a…

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Matthew Goldmark, "Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America" (U Virginia Press, 2023) 39:32

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Drawing on literary texts, conversion manuals, and colonial correspondence from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain and Peru, Forms of Relation: Composing Kinship in Colonial Spanish America (University of Virginia, 2023) shows the importance of textual, religious, and bureaucratic ties to struggles over colonial governance and identities. Dr.…

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Meet the Author with Ken Huck – June 27, 2024 – Bill Donohue “Cultural Meltdown: The Secular Roots of Our Moral Crisis” and John-Mark Miravalle “Thinking Clearly: Catholic Philosophy for a Culture in Chaos ... 54:45

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Ken talks with Bill Donohue “Cultural Meltdown: The Secular Roots of Our Moral Crisis” (Sophia Institute Press) and John-Mark Miravalle “Thinking Clearly: Catholic Philosophy for a Culture in Chaos” (Our Sunday Visitor). Dr. Donohue’s book is available at: https://sophiainstitute.com/product/cultural-meltdown/ and Dr. Miravalle’s at: https://www.or…

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Lectio The Case for Jesus: The Kingdom of God and the Messiah 32:11

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Who did Jesus claim to be? Who was he? Looking at Jesus’s own words and his fulfillment of two key Old Testament prophecies in the Book of Daniel, Dr. Pitre opens up Jesus’s oft repeated promise to usher in the Kingdom of God. Buy Your Bible on Catholic.Market. Watch Bible Studies on FORMED. Sign Up for FORMED. Support this podcast and the Augustin…

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Matthijs Lok, "Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past" (Cambridge UP, 2023) 56:51

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Contemporary Europe seems to be divided between progressive cosmopolitans sympathetic to the European Union and the ideals of the Enlightenment, and counter-enlightened conservative nationalists extolling the virtues of homelands threatened by globalised elites and mass migration. Europe Against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Maki…

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Henry Reece, "The Fall: The Last Days of the English Republic" (Yale UP, 2024) 36:11

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Why did England's one experiment in republican rule fail? Oliver Cromwell's death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in English history. In less than two years, there were close to ten changes of government; rival armies of Englishmen faced each other across the Scottish border; and the Long Parliament was finally dissolve…

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Judith Vitale et al., "Drugs and the Politics of Consumption in Japan" (Brill, 2023) 1:13:15

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In early modern Japan, upper status groups coveted pills and powders made of exotic foreign ingredients such as mummy and rhinoceros horn. By the early twentieth century, over-the-counter-patent medicines, and, more alarmingly, morphine, had become mass commodities, fueling debates over opiates in Japan's expanding imperial territories. The fall of…

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Genji Yasuhira, "Catholic Survival in the Dutch Republic: Agency in Coexistence and the Public Sphere in Utrecht, 1620-1672" (Amsterdam UP, 2024) 1:04:49

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Even in adversity, Catholics exercised considerable agency in post-Reformation Utrecht. Through the political practices of repression and toleration, Utrecht’s magistrates, under constant pressure from the Reformed Church, attempted to exclude Catholics from the urban public sphere. However, by mobilising their social status and networks, Catholic …

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Meet the Author with Ken Huck – June 20, 2024 – Dan LeRoy “Why We Think What We Think: The Rise and Fall of Western Thought” and T.M. Doran “Seeing Red” 55:43

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Ken talks with Dan LeRoy “Why We Think What We Think: The Rise and Fall of Western Thought” (Sophia Institute Press) and T.M. Doran “Seeing Red” (Ignatius Press). Dan’s book available at: https://sophiainstitute.com/product/why-we-think-what-we-think/ and Tom’s book at: https://ignatius.com/seeing-red-seerp/ L'articolo Meet the Author with Ken Huck…

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Lectio The Case for Jesus: When Were the Gospels Written? 36:01

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Some attempt to cast doubt on the reliability of the Gospels, asserting they were written too late in the first century to provide accurate information about Jesus. Is there any evidence that the Gospels were written closer to the events they describe? And how did the disciples’ training as students influence the reliability of their witness? Buy Y…

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Fear in the Brain: the Neuroscience of Fear (w/ Kevin Sattler) 1:18:07

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Fear is a familiar part of most of our lives, from being afraid of the dark or dreading public speaking, to possibly experiencing life-threatening situations where our sense of safety is challenged and even taken away. And yet often we move through life being influenced by these fears, and not knowing exactly what’s happening for us internally. Neu…

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Harry R. McCarthy, "Boy Actors in Early Modern England" (Cambridge UP, 2022) 44:27

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Boy Actors in Early Modern England: Skill and Stagecraft in the Theatre (Cambridge University Press, 2022) by Dr. Harry McCarthy provides a new approach to the study of early modern boy actors, offering a historical re-appraisal of these performers' physical skills in order to reassess their wide-reaching contribution to early modern theatrical cul…

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Carlos M. N. Eire, "They Flew: A History of the Impossible" (Yale UP, 2023) 53:57

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In the early modern era, seemingly impossible stories of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft were common and believable. The important question of the time was not if these things happened, but why. This was particularly true as the rise of Protestantism began to challenge Catholic beliefs in miracles and continued to be the case even after scie…

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Walter Sinnott Armstrong on AI and Morality 13:58

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Can AI help us make difficult moral decisions? Walter Sinnott Armstrong explores this idea in conversation with David Edmonds in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

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Meet the Author with Ken Huck – June 13, 2024 – Ken talks with Thomas Nash “To Whom Shall We Go?: The Biblical Case for the Catholic Church” (Emmaus Road) and Bronwen McShea “Women of the Church: What ... 53:05

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Thomas’s book available at: https://stpaulcenter.com/…/to-whom-shall-we-go-the…/ and Bronwen’s book at: https://ignatius.com/women-of-the-church-wcwckp/ L'articolo Meet the Author with Ken Huck – June 13, 2024 – Ken talks with Thomas Nash “To Whom Shall We Go?: The Biblical Case for the Catholic Church” (Emmaus Road) and Bronwen McShea “Women of th…

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Sudev Sheth, "Bankrolling Empire: Family Fortunes and Political Transformation in Mughal India" (Cambridge UP, 2024) 52:36

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Running and securing an empire can get expensive–especially one known for its opulence, like the Mughal Empire, which conquered much of northern India before rapidly declining in the eighteenth century. But how did the Mughals get their money? Often, it was through wealthy merchants, like the Jhaveri family, who willingly—and then not-so-willingly–…

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Lectio The Case for Jesus: Are the Gospels Biographies? 34:45

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Do the Gospels tell us the truth about Jesus? Or should we view them as folklore, fables, or legends? Dr. Pitre demonstrates how the Gospels are best understood as ancient biographies, and, consequently, as reliable sources of historical information about Jesus. Buy Your Bible on Catholic.Market. Watch Bible Studies on FORMED. Sign Up for FORMED. S…

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Chloe Wigston Smith, "Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World" (Yale UP, 2024) 51:22

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In the eighteenth century, women’s contributions to empire took fewer official forms than those collected in state archives. Their traces were recorded in material ways, through the ink they applied to paper or the artefacts they created with muslin, silk threads, feathers, and shells. Handiwork, such as sewing, knitting, embroidery, and other craf…

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Bronagh Ann McShane, "Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration" (Boydell & Brewer, 2022) 37:56

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Irish Women in Religious Orders, 1530-1700: Suppression, Migration and Reintegration (Boydell & Brewer, 2022) by Dr. Bronagh Ann McShane investigates the impact of the dissolution of the monasteries on women religious and examines their survival in the following decades, showing how, despite the state's official proscription of vocation living, rel…

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Joseph A. Skloot, "First Impressions: Sefer Hasidim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing" (Brandeis UP, 2023) 56:29

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Joseph A. Skloot joins Jana Byars to talk about his new book, First Impressions: Sefer hasimdim and Early Modern Hebrew Printing (Brandeis UP, 2023). First Impressions uncovers the history of creative adaptation and transformation through a close analysis of the creation of the Sefer Hasidim book. In 1538, a partnership of Jewish silk makers in the…

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Meet the Author with Ken Huck – June 6, 2024 -Dr. Scott Hahn “Catholics in Exile: Biblical Wisdom for the Journey Home” (Emmaus Road) and Helen Hoffner “Catholicism Everywhere: From Hail Mary Passes to ...

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Dr Hahn’s book available at: https://stpaulcenter.com/…/catholics-in-exile-biblical…/ and Helen’s book at: https://sophiainstitute.com/product/catholicism-everywhere/ L'articolo Meet the Author with Ken Huck – June 6, 2024 -Dr. Scott Hahn “Catholics in Exile: Biblical Wisdom for the Journey Home” (Emmaus Road) and Helen Hoffner “Catholicism Everywh…

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Vince Brown, Caribbean Vectors (EF, JP) 45:51

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The largest slave uprising in the 18th century British Caribbean was also a node of the global conflict called the Seven Year’s War, though it isn’t usually thought of that way. In the first few days of the quarantine and our current geopolitical and epidemiological shitshow, John and Elizabeth spoke with Vincent Brown, who recently published Tacky…

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Lectio The Case for Jesus: The Early Church Fathers 32:11

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The early church is not silent on the authorship of the Gospels. From the earliest members of the Christian faith, the early Church Fathers, we learn how well-attested it was that the Gospels are in fact written by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Buy Your Bible on Catholic.Market. Watch Bible Studies on FORMED. Sign Up for FORMED. Support this podca…

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Startup Founders Reflecting on their Fear of Failure (w/ Varun Deedwaniya) 1:17:45

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How do we face our fears and pursue the challenges we wish to master? In today’s continuation of our mini-series on Facing Fear, Varun Deedwaniya, Rahul’s brother and former co-founder of BreakoutIQ, joins us to talk fear both in business and in personal life. Rahul and Varun’s warm and comfortable dynamic provides a clear anecdote to the butterfli…

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Stephanie Joy Mawson, "Incomplete Conquests: The Limits of Spanish Empire in the Seventeenth-Century Philippines" (Cornell UP, 2023) 47:34

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"When the Spanish colonization of the Philippines began in 1565, early reports boasted of mass conversions to Christianity and ever-increasing numbers of people paying tribute to the Spanish crown. This suggests an uncomplicated story of an easy imposition of Spanish sovereignty. But as Stephanie Mawson shows in her book, Incomplete Conquests: The …

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Matthew Kadane, "The Enlightenment and Original Sin" (U Chicago Press, 2024) 55:14

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Matthew Kadane, Professor of History at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, talks about his just new book, The Enlightenment and Original Sin (University of Chicago Press, 2024). An eloquent microhistory that argues for the centrality of the doctrine of original sin to the Enlightenment. What was the Enlightenment? This question has been endlessly d…

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Meet the Author with Ken Huck – May 30, 2024 – Michael Amodei “Reaching for Heaven: 14 Spiritual Goals as You Grow Older” and Deacon Richard Eason “Spiritual Lightning: Answering Your Call from Jesus to ...

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Michael’s book available at: https://www.avemariapress.com/products/reaching-for-heaven and Deacon Eason’s at: https://sophiainstitute.com/product/spiritual-lightning/ L'articolo Meet the Author with Ken Huck – May 30, 2024 – Michael Amodei “Reaching for Heaven: 14 Spiritual Goals as You Grow Older” and Deacon Richard Eason “Spiritual Lightning: An…

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Lectio The Case for Jesus: Were the Gospels Anonymous? 34:05

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Can we trust the Gospels? Were these accounts written by individuals with firsthand knowledge of Jesus Christ? Dr. Brant Pitre begins this series by examining why the Gospels are reliable sources of information about Jesus and by looking at the historical evidence that backs up this claim. Buy Your Bible on Catholic.Market. Watch Bible Studies on F…

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Iris Moon, "Melancholy Wedgwood" (MIT Press, 2024) 1:12:18

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Melancholy Wedgwood (MIT Press, 2024) is an experimental biography of the ceramics entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood that reveals the tenuous relationship of eighteenth-century England to late-capitalist modernity. It traces the multiple strands in the life of the ceramic entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood (1730–1795) to propose an alternative view of eightee…

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Yehonatan Eybeshitz, "Pearls of Wisdom from Rabbi Yehonatan Eybeshitz: Torah Giant, Preacher & Kabbalist" (Gerber's Miracle Publishers, 2021) 31:14

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Rabbi Yehonatan Eybeshitz was one of the greatest rabbis of the eighteenth century. Even as a child, he was renowned as one of the rare geniuses of his time. Among the most revered Torah scholars of the last 300 years, Rabbi Eybeshitz was also a prolific writer, preacher, and Kabbalah master. His innumerable writings cover all areas of Jewish Learn…

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Meet the Author with Ken Huck- May 23, 2024 – Archbishop Emeritus Alfred Hughes and Susan De Bartoli

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Ken talks with Archbishop Emeritus Alfred Hughes “Spiritual Masters: Living and Praying in the Catholic Tradition” (Ignatius Press) and Susan De Bartoli “Welcoming the Holy Spirit with Padre Pio” (Ave Maria Press). Archbishop Hughes’s book available at: https://ignatius.com/spiritual-masters-spmp/ Susan’s book at: https://www.avemariapress.com/prod…

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Lectio Mark: Question and Answer 29:50

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As the study comes to the end, we pause to reflect on some questions that have arisen during our journey through Mark's Gospel. Buy Your Bible on Catholic.Market. Watch Bible Studies on FORMED. Sign Up for FORMED. Support this podcast and the Augustine Institute on the Mission Circle.By Augustine Institute

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Facing Fear: Join Our New Mini-series! 43:33

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Join our new mini-series, where Gabe and Rahul open the door on the vast, ubiquitous topic of “fear”. In this introductory episode, we start to share our own relationship with fear, and tease the topics that we hope to explore in the coming episodes: What is fear, and how does it manifest in our minds, bodies, and emotions? How do we know when fear…

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Jason A. Kerr, "Milton's Theological Process: Reading de Doctrina Christiana and Paradise Lost" (Oxford UP, 2023) 32:42

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This volume proposes a method for reading Milton's De Doctrina Christiana as an artifact of his process of theological thinking rather than as a repository of his doctrinal views. Jason A. Kerr argues that reading in this way involves attention to the complex material state of the manuscript along with Milton's varying modes of engagement with scri…

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Assaf Tamari, "God as Patient: The Medical Discourse of Lurianic Kabbalah" (Magnes Press, 2023) 40:56

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In a broken world, in which even God Himself is in a state of deep crisis, what is required in order to mend the rupture? How can one heal God and His world? Moreover, what might allow our actions to be effective? These questions stand at the heart of the Lurianic Kabbalah, the apex of the Safedian intellectual and religious renaissance of the sixt…

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Priya Satia, "Empire of Guns: The Violent Making of the Industrial Revolution" (Bloomsbury, 2019) 53:36

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From the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, the industrial revolution transformed Britain from an agricultural and artisanal economy to one dominated by industry, ushering in unprecedented growth in technology and trade and putting the country at the center of the global economy. But the commonly accepted story of the industrial revolution, anc…

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