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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Duration: 1:14:56
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10: Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:04:30
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9: Ray Sawatsky [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 45:26
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8: Norton Mezvinsky [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 45:11
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7: Brad Jersak [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:05:10
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6: Andrew Corley [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 37:09
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5: Tahir Uluc [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 49:18
I welcome you to my conversation with Professor Uluc in which he speaks forthrightly about the institutional changes brought about recently in Turkey, particular those in religious education. It is a fluid situation and…
4: Symeon van Donkelaar [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 38:48
I welcome you to our conversation on the meaning of icon and of place; on what is often described as the impurities in the soil, which Symeon sees as its distinctive personality, and, on the act of translating the Orthod…
3: Amjad Hussain [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 41:01
I welcome you to our conversation on Norway, Islam, and issues of religion and public life.
2: Cyril Hovorun [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 36:01
I welcome you to our conversation on church and state and the challenges to the Orthodox churches posed by nationalism, fundamentalism and anti- Semitism in the post-Soviet period.