Let's Go Walk and Listen!

by Etienne GilsonFull text can be found: https://ia803106.us.archive.org/6/items/etienne-gilson-being-and-some-philosophers-pontifical-institute-of-mediaeval-studies-2005/Étienne%20Gilson%20-%20Being%20and%20Some%20Philosophers-Pontifical%20Institute%20of%20Mediaeval%20Studies%20(2005).pdf"Equinitas ergo in se est equinitas tantum."

by Etienne GilsonFull text can be found: https://ia803106.us.archive.org/6/items/etienne-gilson-being-and-some-philosophers-pontifical-institute-of-mediaeval-studies-2005/Étienne%20Gilson%20-%20Being%20and%20Some%20Philosophers-Pontifical%20Institute%20of%20Mediaeval%20Studies%20(2005).pdf

by Etienne GilsonFull text can be found: https://ia803106.us.archive.org/6/items/etienne-gilson-being-and-some-philosophers-pontifical-institute-of-mediaeval-studies-2005/Étienne%20Gilson%20-%20Being%20and%20Some%20Philosophers-Pontifical%20Institute%20of%20Mediaeval%20Studies%20(2005).pdfPrologue00:16:54 Chapter 1 - On Being and the One

by Brother Lawrence of the ResurrectionTranslated by John J. DelaneyImage BooksWritings first appeared in 169200:00:07 Conversations with Brother Lawrence00:00:10 1st Conversation00:04:10 2nd Conversation00:14:48 3rd Conversation00:19:36 4th Conversation00:25:16 Letters00:25:23 1st Letter00:30:47 2nd Letter00:33:33 3rd Letter00:36:30 4th Letter00:38:59 5th Letter00:48:08 6th Letter00:49:34 7th Letter00:52:02 8th Letter00:54:13 9th Letter00:57:29 10th Letter00:59:34 11th Letter01:03:43 12th Letter01:07:21 13th Letter01:09:55 14th Letter01:12:14 15th Letter01:14:19 16th Letter01:17:08 Spiritual Maxims01:19:46 Practices Necessary to Obtain the Spiritual Life01:24:40 How We Must Adore God in Spirit and in Truth01:26:26 Of the Union of the Soul with God01:29:00 Of the Presence of God01:32:56 Ways of Acquiring the Presence of God01:36:01 The Benefits of the Presence of God

By Reuben SlifeReuben Slife is an editor of New Polity: A Journal of Postliberal Thought.Communio 50 (Winter 2023) © 2023 by Communio: International Catholic ReviewPgs. 735- 756“For a Christian, it is only in trans-forming that one inherits properly, because each thing—even our suffering under mechanistic meaninglessness—becomes itself only in receiving the form of Christ.”00:06:36 1. Was the American Founding a Sin?00:26:37 2. What is Good About America?00:27:33 2.1 Exterior Achievements 00:41:25 2.2 Generosity, Religiosity, and Other Cultural Characteristics00:44:59 2.3 Intentions00:48:49 Final Paragraph

by Avery DullesAvery Dulles, S.J., is Laurence J. McGinley Professor of Theology at Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y. This article is adapted from the McGinley Lecture delivered there Sept. 28.AMERICA October 23, 1993 Vol. 169 No. 1200:01:45 1. The Concept of Prophetic Humanism00:05:21 2. Human Dignity00:13:11 3. Human Existence as Communal00:15:15 4. The Family00:17:33 5. The Order of Culture00:21:53 6. The Economic Order00:26:58 7. The Political Order00:30:44 8. The Church

by W. Norris ClarkeCommunio 19 (Winter, 1992) by Communio: International Catholic Review"The perfection of being - and therefore of the person - is essentially dyadic, culminating in communion."00:06:36 The Dynamic, Relational Notion of Being00:25:18 Application to the Person00:34:03 Receptivity as a Perfection of Being and Person00:40:58 Objection00:52:21 Conclusions

by John S. GrabowskiCommunio 22 (Spring, 1995) by Communio: International Catholic Reviewpgs. 139-163"The mystery of the human person, created in the image of the triune God, is illumined by revelation as a being who subsists in the communion of love."00:03:23 I. Patristic Beginnings: The Emergence of Person and Relation00:09:58 II. Medieval Synthesis: Substance and Subsistent Relation00:23:57 III. Modern Thought: Deeper Convergence00:25:44 1. The Person as Subject00:30:26 2. The Person as Dialogical00:33:26 3. The Person as Sexual00:36:04 4. Toward a Relational Metaphysic00:38:42 IV. Conclusion

by Luigi Giussani00:02:59 An Extraordinary Historical Reality00:13:00 The Terms of this New Reality00:19:02 Instinctive Resistance

by Luigi Giussani00:00:10 A Premise: Education in the Morality Necessary for Understanding00:11:19 Human Stature00:26:00 Human Existence00:29:15 An Awareness as Asking00:43:54 The Law of Life01:03:04 Conclusion

by Luigi Giussani00:06:43 The First Dawning of Explicitness00:10:56 A Challenge00:23:33 The Conclusive Declaration00:29:51 The Discretion of Freedom

by Luigi Giussani00:09:52 The Essentials of the Pedagogy of Christ's Self-Revelation00:15:24 For His Sake: The Core of Freedom00:27:09 The Moment of Identification

by Luigi Giussani00:00:21 The Itinerary of Conviction00:07:29 a) The Discovery of an Incomparable Man00:17:17 b) Power and Goodness00:23:34 A Question Arises, A Certainty Breaks Forth00:31:19 A Case of Moral Certainty

by Luigi Giussani00:00:54 The Fact as Criterion00:15:32 Concerning the Method00:26:55 The Starting Point

by Luigi Giussani00:05:21 A Radical Overturning of the Religious Method00:08:38 No Longer Just an Hypothesis00:13:19 A Problem that Must be Solved00:19:06 A Problem of Fact

by Luigi Giussani00:02:26 Some Examples00:24:17 Facing an Unimaginable Claim

by Luigi Giussani00:06:50 Some Attitudes of Religious Constructiveness00:25:56 A Spectrum of Hypotheses

by Luigi Giussani.00:00:00 Preface00:02:19 Introduction00:12:29 The Dizzying Human Condition00:23:42 Reason in Search of a Solution

From the American Humanist Association: Good without a Godhttps://americanhumanist.org/what-is-humanism/manifesto3/

Homo Abyssus: The Drama of the Question of Being by Ferdinand Ulrich. Translated by D.C. SchindlerLEXICONPlease note: The meaning of fundamental philosophical terms can never be adequately given in a simple definition, in abstraction from all context. The following exposition of terms is meant principally as a heuristic device, both to indicate the original German terms behind the English translations, and more generally to offer the reader initial help with the text, in which the terms and phrases will take on a richer sense and receive the proper qualifications. A = Aabsolute system (das absolute System)analogia proportionalitatis and analogia attributionis anthropological reduction (die anthropologische Reduktion)ad-vent (die Zu-kunft)anti-space and anti-time (Wider-raum und Wider-zeit)the “beginning” (der “Anfang”)being present (ontologische Gegen-wart)bonicity (die Bontät)cleared/spaced (geräumt)clinging-to-itself (an-sich-halten)contradiction (der Widerspruch)convertibility of being and “nothing” (die selbige Verwendung von Sein un “Nichts”)crisis of being (die Krisis des Seins)depotentiation (die Depotenzierung)distress (of the contradiction) (die Not)ensentitativeEr-eignisesseessential past (das Ge-wesen)essentiell (essentiell)exinanitio (or kenosis) (die Exinanitio)extro-version/intro-version (exitus/reditus) (Aus-kehr/Ein-kehr)facticity (die Faktizität)foregrasp (out into being) (der Vorgriff)freedom open all the way to the ground (Freiheit-zum-Grunde)“fullness of time” (die “Fülle der Zeit)generate/temporalize (zeitigen)Geschick (or the “self-sending” of being)gift/task of being (die Auf-Gabe)guiding pattern (die “Richte”)hypostasization (die Hypostasierung)ideal vacillation (ideale Schwebe)ideality (Idealität)indifferentiating (die Indifferenzierung)intellectus agens and intellectus possibilisintellectus capax entis (die “seinsvernehmende” Vernunft)in via (unterwegs)listening obedience (die Hörigkeit)the “little way” (der “kleine Weg”)judgment of existence/primal division of being (Seinsurteil, Ur-Teil des Seins)logicized spirit (der logisierte Geist)luminous night (Licht-Nacht)metaphysics as reenactment (die “Metaphysik in der Wiederholung”)motusmovement into subsistence (Subsistenzbewegung)movement into finitization (Verendlichungsbewegung)necessary sense of being (der notwendige Seins-sinn)need-relieving/neccesary (das “Not-wendige”)ontological difference (die ontologische Differenz)ontological moments (die Seinsmomente)ontological spatiotemporality (ontologische Raumzeitlichkeit)onto-theo-logy (die Onto-theo-logie)participation per compositionemparticipation per similitudinempneumatic reason (pneumatische Vernunft)posited or positing (gesetzt or die Setzung)positivity (die Postitivität)possibiliapotency-for-concrete-existence (Daseinsmöglichkeit)pseudo-subsistence (pseudo-Subsistenz)quantitas dimensivaratio/intellecuts (Verstand/Vernunft)reality (Realität)reflection or reflexivity (die Reflexion)res“sameness” (“Selbigkeit”)self-necessitation (sich-vernötigen)simplex apprehensiospeculation (die Spekulation)sublation (Aufhebung)subsistence (Subsistenz)substantiellsuperessentiality (die Überwesenhaftigkeit)temptation (die Versuchung)theologoumenonthing-of-the-past (das Ge-wesen)totum potestativumtransnihilation (Durchnichtung)uncaused character (Nichtverursachtsein)vacillation of being (or ontological vacillation) (Seinsschwebe)

Homo Abyssus: The Drama of the Question of Being by Ferdinand Ulrich. Translated by D.C. SchindlerCh. 7 - Ontological Spatiotemporality1. Ontological Spatiotemporality and the Movement into Subsistence - 00:00:002. A Consideration of Physical Temporality: Some of the Aberrations That Occur in the Unfolding of Time and Ontological Spatiotemporality - 00:15:123. Ontological Spatiotemporality and the Concrete Substance - 00:24:194. Ontological Spatiotemporality and the Reception of Being - 00:30:485. Ontological Spatiotemporality and the "Fullness of Time" - 00:38:04

by Francesco BellucciPublished in The Review of Metaphysics (March 2025): 467-490The Thesis:A complete sign is a proposition. (major premise)The definition of "sign" is actually a definition of "complete sign." (minor premise)Hence, the definition of "sign" is actually a definition of the proposition.I. - 00:00:00II. - 00:10:40III. - 00:35:46IV. - 00:45:27V. - 00:58:34

by Sean Foley and Jonathan ButtaciPublished in The Review of Metaphysics (March 2025): 403-443Criterion 1. The receptive intellect must play a constitutive role in the human activity of contemplation.Criterion 2. If the agent intellect is a human intellectual principle, it must play a role in the human activity of contemplation that reflects its divine character.I - The Divinity of the Agent IntellectII - Criteria for Interpretive Adequacy 00:08:00III - A Justification for Applying Criterion 2 Ex Hypothesi 00:21:11IV - Assimilationist Proposals 00:24:02V - Dispositionalist Proposals 00:39:45VI - Initiationist Proposals 00:46:26VII - Abstractionist Proposals 00:50:12VIII - Preliminary Conclusions 01:12:05

by Apolonio and Siobhan LatarCommunio 51 (Winter 2024). © 2024 by Communio: International Catholic Review" [I]t is precisely in his courageous, fruitful will not to grasp, his refusal to claim for his own what is not given, that the deepest truth, beauty, and goodness of man's nature is displayed most radiantly."1. Introduction2. Giussani on Virginity 00:04:283. Tolkien and the Virginity of Subcreation 00:28:064. Conclusion 00:56:56

Excerpt from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallacepgs. 692-6981996

Can We Create Ourselves?“Humanist and Christian Theologies of the Body”By Benedict M. Ashley, O.P.1985Part IV Chs. 12-14: A Process Theology of the BodyChapter 12: The Spiritual Bodyi: Glorious Wounds1) The Dead Body of Christ2) Why Did He Die?3) Meritii: The Immortal Body (00:51:34)1) Life After Death?2) The Body Transformed3) Guesswork4) The Intermediate State5) The Self-CondemnedChapter 13: The Glorified Body (03:23:56)i: The God Revealed in Jesus1) Father, Son, and Spirit2) Does the Christian God Exist?ii: Persons Without Bodies (04:17:50)1) Do Angels Exist?2) Encountering the Angelsiii: The Eucharistic, Transformed World (05:07:39)1) Eucharistic Transformation2) The Trinity Centered Universe3) The Transformed WorldChapter 14: The Godliness of Matter (06:31:32)i: How Matter Mirrors Godii: The Human Body: God’s Image (06:42:03)iii: The Body is God’s Glory (06:45:05)

Can We Create Ourselves?“Humanist and Christian Theologies of the Body”By Benedict M. Ashley, O.P.1985Part IV Chs. 10-11: A Process Theology of the BodyChapter 10: Ethics of Co-Creative Stewardshipi: Ecologyii: Food (00:30:31)1) The Stewardship of Food and Drink2)The Christian Ideal of Povertyiii: Security (00:52:28)1) Stewardship and Aggression2) The Christian Ideal of Martyrdom and Non-Violenceiv: Sexuality and Sociality (01:10:19)1) Evolutionary and Other Meanings of Sexuality2) The Future of Sex3) A Creative Ethics of Sexualityv: Information, Society, Creativity (02:12:08)1) Communication2) Governmentvi: Ethics and History (02:44:21)Chapter 11: God’s Fullness in Bodily Form (Col. 2:9) (03:19:10)i: The Son of God1) Christology from Below, from Above, from Without, from Within2) The Annunciation of the Virginal Conception3) Baptism, Temptation, Transfiguration, Sacrifice4) The Historical Authenticity of these Experiencesii: The Body of Christ (04:48:41)1) True Man2) The Christian Church as the Body of Christ3) Ministryiii: The Mother of God (06:37:02)1) The Mother of Jesus2) True God

Can We Create Ourselves?“Humanist and Christian Theologies of the Body”By Benedict M. Ashley, O.P.1985Part III: A Radical Process Interpretation of ScienceChapter 7: Primary Units in Processi: The Meaning of the Evolutionary Process1) The Variety of Evolutionary Processes2) Evolution and Causalityii: False Clues (00:26:12)1) Reductionism2) Process Philosophies3) Clearing Away the Nonsenseiii: Primary Unites (01:00:28)1) Empirical Being2) The Natural Unit3) Units in Process4) Kinds of ProcessChapter 8: Process and Creativity (02:22:10)i: Natural Processes1) Categories and Causes2) Too Many Categories?ii: Transcendent Process: Body and Mind (02:59:26)1) Interiority and Transcendence2) Human Creativity3) The Mind-Body Problem4) Bodily Beauty5) A Radical Process PhilosophyChapter 9: Historicity and the Human Body (04:39:54)i: Two Conceptions of Human Historicity1) Humanism and Historicity2) Christianity and Historicityii: Cultural Relativism (05:19:38)1) Nature, Nurture and History as a Science2) Morality and Cultural Relativismiii: The Bible, Human Historicity and Ethics (06:23:20)1) Adam and Biblical Anthropology2) Natural Law and Christology

Can We Create Ourselves? “Humanist and Christian Theologies of the Body” By Benedict M. Ashley, O.P. 1985 Part II: Christian Theologies of the Body Chapter 4: The Platonic Christian Theology i: Biblical Themes 1) The Body is a Tomb 2) Bible and Body 3) Liberation and Resurrection Theme 4) Creation or Image Theme 5) Sin-Death-Cross Theme 6) Wisdom Theme 7) Stewardship Theme 8) Fertility Theme 9) Suffering Servant Theme 00:32:10 ii: Eastern Platonic Christian Theology 1) From the Jewish to Greek World-View 2) Anthropology of Origen and the Cappadocians 3) Anthropology of the Pseudo-Dionysius and St. Maximus 01:20:08 iii: Western Platonic Christian Theology 1) The Anthropology of St. Augustine 2) Medieval Theology Before the Rise of the Universities 02:00:27 Chapter 5: The Aristotelian Christian Theology i: The Aristotelian Alternative 1) Aristotle in the Eastern Church 2) Aristotle in the Latin Universities 3) The Survival of Platonic Dualism 02:49:56 ii: Nominalism and the Shift from Nature to Law 1) Nominalism and Voluntarism 2) From Nature to Law 03:05:47 iii: Renaissance and the Platonic Idealization of the Body 1) The Ideal Body 2) The Mathematization of Natural Science 03:35:34 iv: The Body and the Sacraments 1) The Reformation Subordination of Sacrament to Word 2) The Counter-Reformation Reduction of Sacrament to Law 3) The Desacralized Body 04:32:03 Chapter 6: Christian Theology Confronted by Humanism i: The Cartesian Transition 1) The Phenomenal Body 2) The Cartesian Christian Theology 05:02:38 ii: Christian Reaction to the Rise of Humanism 1) The Rise of Empiricism 2) The Experiment with Idealism 05:36:36 iii: Compromises 1) Protestant Approachement 2) Catholic Approachement 05:57:59 iv: The Dialogue with Scientistic or Positivistic Humanism 1) The Thomistic Revival 2) Recent Renewals 3) The Lessons of History

Can We Create Ourselves? “Humanist and Christian Theologies of the Body” By Benedict M. Ashley, O.P. 1985 Part I: Science, the Body and the Humanist Theology Chapter 1: Can We Create Ourselves? i: We Are Bodies ii: Can We Create Ourselves? - 6:05 iii: The Body and Ethics - 14:19 iv: A Hermeneutical Method - 17:19 1) The Interpretative Dilemma 2) An Expanding Horizon Chapter 2: What Does Science Say We Are? - 38:22 i: We are Thinking Bodies 1) The Scientific Vision 2) We are Communicators 3) We are Self-Aware ii: Our Bodies Serve Our Brains - 47:59 1) We are Brains 2) We are Homeostatic Systems 3) We are Genetic Codes iii: We are Matter-Energy - 1:17:49 1) We are Matter 2) We are Energy iv: We Have Evolved and Will Perish in the Cosmic Epoch - 1:39:02 1) We Have a Cosmic History 2) We are Upstream Swimmers v: A Scientific Definition of the Human Person - 1:57:45 Chapter 3: Humanist Theologies of the Body (1700-2000) - 2:01:03 i: The World-View of Humanism 1) The Humanist Interpretation of Science 2) Contemporary Humanism and the Human Body 3) What Separated Humanism from Christianity? ii: The Empiricist Development of the Humanist World-View - 2:36:50 1) The Newtonian World-View and Deism 2) Darwin and the Evolutionary View of Nature 3) Einstein and the Relativistic World-View iii: The Idealist Critique of the Empiricist Interpretation of Humanism - 3:01:29 1) The Kantian Epistemological Revolution 2) Idealism and Historicity 3) Humanism, Phenomenology, and Hermeneutic Philosophy 4) The Human Body in Art and Literature iv: Resolution of the Inner Contradictions of Humanism - 3:55:33 1) The Marxist Critique 2) Process Philosophy as a Revision of Humanism 3) The Strength of Humanism v: Conclusion of Part I - 4:16:51

The Heart: An Analysis of Human and Divine Affectivity by Dietrich von Hildebrand A Doctoral Dissertation. https://archive.org/details/heartanalysisofh0000vonh Part 3: The Human Heart Transformed Ch. 1 - The Heart of the True Christian Ch. 2 - Amare in Deo - 20:40 Appendix: Introduction to the 1965/77 Edition of The Heart Dietrich von Hildebrand - 47:00

The Heart: An Analysis of Human and Divine Affectivity by Dietrich von Hildebrand A Doctoral Dissertation. https://archive.org/details/heartanalysisofh0000vonh Part 2: The Heart of Jesus Ch. 1 - The Affectivity of the God-Man Ch. 2 - The Mystery of the Sacred Heart - 1:11:26 Ch. 8 - The Heart as the Real Self - 3:31:54

The Heart: An Analysis of Human and Divine Affectivity by Dietrich von Hildebrand A Doctoral Dissertation. https://archive.org/details/heartanalysisofh0000vonh Part 1: The Human Heart Ch. 1 - The Role of the Heart Ch. 2 - Non-Spiritual and Spiritual Affectivity - 58:27 Ch. 3 - Tender Affectivity - 2:06:45 Ch. 4 - Hypertrophy of the Heart - 2:35:03 Ch. 5 - Affective Atrophy - 2:55:56 Ch. 6 - Heartlessness - 3:08:07 Ch. 7 - The Tyrannical Heart - 3:22:07 Ch. 8 - The Heart as the Real Self - 3:31:54

by Paolo ProsperiCommunio 45 (Summer 2018). © 2018 by Communio: International Catholic Reviewhttps://www.communio-icr.com/files/45.2_Prosperi_WEB.pdf"Such an impossible unity of passion and freedom is really the beginning of heaven on earth."I - 00:02:28II - 00:07:09III - 00:19:18IV - 00:25:33V - 00:38:14VI - 00:51:28VII - 01:12:04VIII - 01:32:18

by Don Adams Published in The Review of Metaphysics (December 2024): 231-256 II - 2:30 III - 10:49 IV - 18:07 V - 32:05 VI - 37:57 VII - 51:54

From https://www.kolbefoundation.org/gbookswebsite/studentlibrary/greatestbooks/aaabooks/stein/faceofgod.html

by Victor Salas Published in The Review of Metaphysics 78 (September 2024): 31-54

A poem. In appreciation of Maxim Gorky at the International Convention of Atheists, 1929 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/42166/staying-power

Is It Possible To Live This Way? An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence by Luigi Giussani Vol. 3 Charity - Part III - Virginity III. Virginity 1. Called for a Task - 00:23 a) The Choice of Specific People - 00:23 b) To Witness to Him - 2:52 c) Living with Him - 3:56 d) For the Destiny of Men - 4:30 2. Through Sacrifice, The Hundredfold - 6:20 - Sacrificing the Immediate Reaction - 6:20 - A Foretaste of Eternal Tenderness - 10:26 - Virginity: Assembly - 13:40 By Way of Introduction This is an unusual book. It is a kind of "novel," as those who first read the proofs noted. In this work the discovery of life as "vocation" comes about not through deduction but through the evidence of an experience lived according to reason, within the same breath as Mystery. It deals with the path that Father Luigi Giussani took throughout a year in dialogue with about one hundred young people who had decided to commit their lives to Christ through total dedication to the Mystery and to His destiny in history. The Church calls this life "virginity."

Is It Possible To Live This Way? An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence by Luigi Giussani Vol. 3 Charity - Part II - Sacrifice II. Sacrifice 1. The Value of Sacrifice - 4:34 - Watershed - 5:23 a) Sacrifice Seems Contrary to Nature - 6:36 b) When It Became Interesting - 7:50 c) When It Becomes a Value for the Life of Man - 17:34 - Because of Original Sin - 21:27 2. What Sacrifice Consists Of - 23:29 3. The Truest Sacrifice is Recognizing a Presence - 30:24 - Sadness and Asking - 32:37 4. The Sacrifice of Faith and the Charism - 35:55 - Sacrifice: Assembly - 45:33 By Way of Introduction This is an unusual book. It is a kind of "novel," as those who first read the proofs noted. In this work the discovery of life as "vocation" comes about not through deduction but through the evidence of an experience lived according to reason, within the same breath as Mystery. It deals with the path that Father Luigi Giussani took throughout a year in dialogue with about one hundred young people who had decided to commit their lives to Christ through total dedication to the Mystery and to His destiny in history. The Church calls this life "virginity."

Is It Possible To Live This Way? An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence by Luigi Giussani Vol. 3 Charity - Part I - Charity I. Charity 1. The Intimacy of a Presence that Faith Recognizes - 1:55 - Without "Reasons" - 6:01 - The Reason for Charity - 9:25 2. Charity: The Gift of the Self, Moved - 10:17 a) A Pure Gift of Self - 12:19 b) Moved - 19:23 - Being Moved Out of a Judgement - 33:37 3. "Perfect, Like Your Heavenly Father" - 36:37 4. Morality is to Imitate God in Charity - 48:58 - Coming from God, the Law of the I is Love - 50:31 - Gift of Self to the End - 56:56 - Moving Oneself for Another - 58:15 - To Bring Into Being, To Save - 60:16 - Charity: Assembly - 1:10:12 By Way of Introduction This is an unusual book. It is a kind of "novel," as those who first read the proofs noted. In this work the discovery of life as "vocation" comes about not through deduction but through the evidence of an experience lived according to reason, within the same breath as Mystery. It deals with the path that Father Luigi Giussani took throughout a year in dialogue with about one hundred young people who had decided to commit their lives to Christ through total dedication to the Mystery and to His destiny in history. The Church calls this life "virginity."

Is It Possible To Live This Way? An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence by Luigi Giussani Vol. 2 Hope - Part III - Trust II. Trust - The Path from Faith to Trust - 00:12 - Faith - 00:23 - Freedom - 6:01 - Obedience - 7:34 - Hope - 9:34 - Poverty - 11:01 1. Trust Is To Entrust Yourself To Someone - 14:12 2. The Corollaries Of Trust - 20:56 a) Abandonment - 21:00 b) I Can Do All Things In The One Who Is My Strength - 25:17 3. The Greatest Banquet In the History Of The House - 30:40 - Mission and Gladness - 32:26 - Generator of a People - 34:25 4. Awareness Of Time - 39:32 a) Time Does Not Belong To Us - 41:36 b) The Mystery Is Good - 49:55 c) Sorrow, Love for a Present - 53:23 - Trust: Assembly - 1:01:36 By Way of Introduction This is an unusual book. It is a kind of "novel," as those who first read the proofs noted. In this work the discovery of life as "vocation" comes about not through deduction but through the evidence of an experience lived according to reason, within the same breath as Mystery. It deals with the path that Father Luigi Giussani took throughout a year in dialogue with about one hundred young people who had decided to commit their lives to Christ through total dedication to the Mystery and to His destiny in history. The Church calls this life "virginity."

Is It Possible To Live This Way? An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence by Luigi Giussani Vol. 2 Hope - Part II - Poverty II. Poverty - From Hope, Poverty - 00:14 1. Do Not Hope For Future Happiness Based On A Particular Present Possession - 2:53 - From the Certainty that "God Fulfills," The Freedom of Things - 7:47 - Gladness - 10:20 - Free Because You Lack Nothing - 20:00 2. Poverty, Law Of The Dynamic Of Knowledge - 27:01 By Way of Introduction This is an unusual book. It is a kind of "novel," as those who first read the proofs noted. In this work the discovery of life as "vocation" comes about not through deduction but through the evidence of an experience lived according to reason, within the same breath as Mystery. It deals with the path that Father Luigi Giussani took throughout a year in dialogue with about one hundred young people who had decided to commit their lives to Christ through total dedication to the Mystery and to His destiny in history. The Church calls this life "virginity."

Is It Possible To Live This Way? An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence by Luigi Giussani Vol. 2 Hope - Part I - Hope I. Hope 1. Certainty Regarding the Future - 10:34 - A Possession That Is Already Given - 23:24 - Certainty of Fulfillment - 25:29 2. The Dynamic of Hope - 28:48 - Desire - 29:37 - The Certainty of Fulfillment - 35:06 - The Dream and the Ideal - 36:41 - A Question that Imbues Everything - 41:22 3. Towards the Possession of an Arduous Good - 43:57 - Certainty and Desire - 47:29 - The Desire for an Arduous Good - 48:48 - The Inevitable Uncertainty - 49:28 a) A Difficult Path - 55:50 b) The Strength of Jesus - 56:55 c) Faithfulness to Belonging - 1:04:09 d) Forgiveness - 1:06:33 - The Opposite of Patience - 1:08:23 - Witness - 1:10:16 - Assembly - 1:12:00 By Way of Introduction This is an unusual book. It is a kind of "novel," as those who first read the proofs noted. In this work the discovery of life as "vocation" comes about not through deduction but through the evidence of an experience lived according to reason, within the same breath as Mystery. It deals with the path that Father Luigi Giussani took throughout a year in dialogue with about one hundred young people who had decided to commit their lives to Christ through total dedication to the Mystery and to His destiny in history. The Church calls this life "virginity."

Is It Possible To Live This Way? An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence by Luigi Giussani Vol. 1 Faith - Part III - Obedience III. Obedience 1. The Reasonable Consequence of Faith - 0:51 - Obedience is Born as a Reasonable Attitude - 4:01 - The Content of the Word "Follow" - 21:36 - Because of this God Glorified Him - 27:07 - The Reasonableness of Following - 29:13 2. True Obedience is a Friendship - 32:06 - Following Someone Who is in Front of You - 32:11 - Following: To Understand and Imitate - 35:39 - Obedience, Gesture of the I - 38:32 - True Following is Friendship - 41:34 - Synthesis - 46:17 - Assembly - 49:35 - Conclusion: From Faith to Obedience - 1:16:44 - Faith - 1:16:48 - Freedom - 1:20:00 - Obedience - 1:21:58 By Way of Introduction This is an unusual book. It is a kind of "novel," as those who first read the proofs noted. In this work the discovery of life as "vocation" comes about not through deduction but through the evidence of an experience lived according to reason, within the same breath as Mystery. It deals with the path that Father Luigi Giussani took throughout a year in dialogue with about one hundred young people who had decided to commit their lives to Christ through total dedication to the Mystery and to His destiny in history. The Church calls this life "virginity."

Is It Possible To Live This Way? An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence by Luigi Giussani Vol. 1 Faith - Part II - Freedom II. Freedom - The Five Passages of Faith 1. What is Freedom? - 6:38 - The Experience of Satisfaction - 9:12 - The Trajectory of Freedom - 14:53 2. How Freedom Moves - 19:50 a) Through Creatures - 19:57 b) Imperfect Freedom - 23:28 3. The Conditions of Freedom - 31:12 a) The Awareness of Destiny - 31:27 b) Self-Control - 32:18 - The Companionship - 32:55 - A Summary - 39:59 - Invitation to Prayer - 45:07 - Assembly - 46:02 - An Announcement - 2:00:13 By Way of Introduction This is an unusual book. It is a kind of "novel," as those who first read the proofs noted. In this work the discovery of life as "vocation" comes about not through deduction but through the evidence of an experience lived according to reason, within the same breath as Mystery. It deals with the path that Father Luigi Giussani took throughout a year in dialogue with about one hundred young people who had decided to commit their lives to Christ through total dedication to the Mystery and to His destiny in history. The Church calls this life "virginity."

Is It Possible To Live This Way? An Unusual Approach to Christian Existence by Luigi Giussani Vol. 1 Faith - Part I - Faith I. Faith 1. A Way of Knowing that Implicates Reason - Direct and Indirect Knowledge - 1:20 - Knowledge Through Faith - 8:02 - Fundamental Method for Culture and History - 13:04 - A Decisive Premise - 14:54 - An Invitation to Prayer - 25:11 - Gathering Our Thoughts - 28:04 2. The Dynamic of Faith - 36:42 - The Credibility of the Witness - 40:38 a) An Encounter - 46:57 b) An Exceptional Presence - 54:08 c) Wonder - 1:01:43 d) Who is this Man? - 1:09:29 e) Responsibility Before the Fact - 1:14:42 - Assembly - 1:19:42 By Way of Introduction This is an unusual book. It is a kind of "novel," as those who first read the proofs noted. In this work the discovery of life as "vocation" comes about not through deduction but through the evidence of an experience lived according to reason, within the same breath as Mystery. It deals with the path that Father Luigi Giussani took throughout a year in dialogue with about one hundred young people who had decided to commit their lives to Christ through total dedication to the Mystery and to His destiny in history. The Church calls this life "virginity."

The Trial of Desire by Francesco Botturi from the magazine TRACES April 2024 - Pain and Technology - Affliction and Compassion - 5:42 - Suffering and Desire - 7:08 - Passio Christi Passio Hominis - 11:27

Between Past and Future: Six Exercises in Political Thought by Hannah Arendt Ch. 4 - What is Freedom Part I Part II - 23:52 Part III - 40:04 Part IV - 1:02:17

Existence and Freedom: Toward an Ontology of Human Finitude by Calvin O. Schrag ISBN: 0-8101-0224-3 Part VII - Decision and Integrity 1. Freedom and Choice 2. The Unauthentic Mode - 16:13 3. Resolve and Authenticity - 49:50 4. Authenticity and Community - 1:30:00