17: Jason West

17: Jason West

Author: David Goa June 21, 2021 Duration: 52:50
Scholars and intellectuals, like artists, often if not always stand on the shoulders of others, those women and men, ancient and modern, who have gone before. At times, in conversation, the lineage surfaces and our debt to them is vivid, our gratitude palpable. So, it is for Jason West. As President, vice-Chancellor and Professor at Newman Theological College, Edmonton, he and his colleagues have enlivened Catholic Studies and the Humanities. In a casual conversation last fall he talked about his current thinking about art, poetry, painting and music, and how the work of the eminent Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain (1882-1973) had given him an entry point to consider the relationship of aesthetics to his first love, logic and the place of reason as a portal to glimpsing what is True.

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Author: Language: English Episodes: 32

In Conversation with David Goa
Podcast Episodes
32: Love of Learning Desire for God: Victor Carpay [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:28:38
I title this series of conversations with young people The Love of Learning and the Desire for God. I met each person in this series while teaching at Newman Theological College in Edmonton from 2020, during the pandemic…
31: Love of Learning Desire for God: Jacqueline Richard [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:08:33
I title this series of conversations with young people The Love of Learning and the Desire for God. I met each person in this series while teaching at Newman Theological College in Edmonton from 2020, during the pandemic…
30: The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: Anna Sidloski [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:15:35
I title this series of conversations with young people The Love of Learning and the Desire for God. I met each person in this series while teaching at Newman Theological College in Edmonton from 2020, during the pandemic…
29: The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: Andre Boudreau [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:30:48
I title this series of conversations with young people The Love of Learning and the Desire for God. I met each person in this series while teaching at Newman Theological College in Edmonton from 2020, during the pandemic…
28: The Love of Learning and the Desire for God [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 11:32
I title this series of conversations with young people The Love of Learning and the Desire for God. I met each person in this series while teaching at Newman Theological College in Edmonton from 2020, during the pandemic…
27: The Theotokos Joy of Canada Icon with Archbishop Vladika Lazar [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 51:44
I sat down with Archbishop Lazar last Fall to talk about the Theotokos, Joy of Canada icon that graces the Monastery of All Saints of North America’s Church. How did he come to commission this icon for the monastery? Wha…
26: Rethinking the Ekklesia - with Todd Weibe [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:14:46
I am pleased to be joined by Pastor Todd Wiebe for this on-going series of conversations on the Ekklesia. I met Todd some years ago and have had the pleasure of working together with him on various occasions. His pastora…
25: Rethinking the Ekklesia - with Eden Jersak [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:29:19
I am pleased to be joined by Pastor Eden Jersak for this on-going series of conversations on the Ekklesia. I am privileged to call Eden, and her husband Brad, friends and have spent many rich hours in conversation with t…
24: Rethinking the Ekklesia - with Donald Sjoberg [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:25:19
I am pleased to be joined by Pastor Donald Sjoberg for this on-going series of conversations on the Ekklesia. Bishop Sjoberg was born in 1930 on a farm near Clanwilliam, Manitoba. His early life was shaped by the Swedish…
23: Calum McCracken III [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 52:17
This is my third conversation with Calum McCracken. We continue exploring the place of religion in shaping political movements and focus on the rise of Christian Reconstructionism and its current shape, Christian Nationa…