This week Rhys, Colin, and Jonathan continue the podcast's readthorugh of Begotten or Made? This time they discuss the relational and procreative good of marriage and how they relate, why IVF is Nietzschean, and what Protestants think of contraception.

Timestamps
00:00:00-00:09:38 - intro, recap, the unitive/relation good of marriage
00:09:47-00:18:47 relation of various goods in marriage
00:18:57-00:37:51 - why IVF is Nietzschean
00:38:00-47:00:00 - Protestants and contraception
00:47:10-end - what we're reading; spotlight; wrap up

Texts Discussed
Begotten or Made? by Oliver O'Donovan

Spotlight
On the Death of Christ and Other Atonement Writings by John Davenant

What We're Reading
Jonathan: The Silmarillion by J.R.R Tolkien
Colin: Leviathan byThomas Hobbes
Rhys: Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts

Music
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This week, Rhys and Colin are joined by Davenant House Groundskeeper Jonathan McKenzie to discuss the virtue of moderation. Prompted by Davenant Press's recent publication A Treatise on Christian Moderation, they discuss the philosophical history of moderation, how it relates to both physical and intellectual pursuits, and how it fits into the pursuit of holiness.

Timestamps
00:00:00-00:14:00 - intro; defining moderation with Aristotle
00:14:11-00:32:57 - Joseph Hall and the civil war; physical and intellectual moderation
00:33:07-00:46:49 - objections to moderation; moderation as an extreme
00:46:49-end - what we're reading; spotlight; end

Texts Discussed
A Treatise on Christian Moderation by Joseph Hall

Spotlight
Ad Fontes Winter 2024 print edition available now!

What We're Reading
Jonathan: David Pareus and Richard Baxter
Colin: King Lear by William Shakespeare
Rhys: Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton by Nicholas McDowell

Music
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Recorded in August 2023, Colin hosts this special live episode with the return of Onsi Kamel and our most featured guest, Colin's brother Justin.

Colin, Onsi, and Justin discuss a paper Onsi delivered at the Bay Area Thomas Aquinas Society conference on a Thomistic view of "place". Albert the Great, Thomas' mentor, saw close links between metaphysics and his view of place physics - a physics which we now know is outdated. What did he believe about place? Does it hold up today with modern science? Can we salvage anything from medieval views of place and metaphysics?

Timestamps
00:00:00-00:11:35 - theology and science; Thomistic physics and metaphysics; place
00:11:43-00:23:51 - Albert the Great on place; place and form; what the sun does
00:24:02-end four elements; is space relative or absolute?; why space matters

Texts Discussed
De Natura Loci by Albert the Great

Music
Intro and Outro:
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