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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #91: Dystopias
General Introduction – Being-towards-the-end-of-semester – Emmanuels far and near – Thanks, Theology Nerd Throwdown! – Chess update What is a Dystopia? – Topos – Utopias and dystopias – The great...
View ArticleThe Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #94: The Forest
General Introduction - Grubbs is back! – Old English – Snow – Listener feedback Etymology - Not promising – Madness and wood Biblical Forests - The Epic of Gilgamesh – Wildernesses and deserts –...
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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #100: Doxology
General Introduction – Spring Breaked, Spring Breaking, Will Spring Break – No listener feedback The Old 100th - Which tune? – A happy coincidence – Defining our terms – Words to frame God’s glory –...
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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #107: Medieval 101
General Introduction - A busy summer – How we spent our summer vacations – Three big announcements The Middle Ages and Antiquity - The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire – Rhetorical constructs – A...
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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #130: A C.S. Lewis Overview
A note: You may notice a marked difference in tone between the General Introduction and the rest of the episode. This is because they were recorded on two different days. We had a lot more energy on...
View ArticleThe Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #131
General Introduction - A full slate of PhDs – Listener feedback – Some Lewis corrections and additions – A technical comment, plagued by technical problems – Yes, Grubbs knows about Tolkien’s Beowulf...
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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #132: Physics
General Introduction - Our special guest – Listener feedback – I dream of The Christian Humanist Podcast – C.S. Lewis and universalism – In which we explain pop culture to David Grubbs – Tolkien and...
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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #133: Psychology
General Introduction - Stay tuned ‘til the end for listener feedback Aristotelian Psychology - What does Aristotle mean by soul? – The soul and the body – Dante’s interpolation – Your undecaying mind –...
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The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #144: Allegory
David Grubbs holds forth with Nathan Gilmour and Michial Farmer about allegory, both as a mode of reading and as a literary genre. The debate hinges on what terms mean in which contexts: is a literary...
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My Colleague J.R.R. Tolkien: A Review of Tolkien’s Beowulf Translation
Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien 425 pp. Houghton MIfflin Harcourt. $28.00 There’s a special kind of joy that fills the air when a group of people,...
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Christian Humanist Profiles 25: The Hobbit Party
Imagine rolling green hills at twilight, speckled with the glow of round windows peeking from under eaves of turf, each opening to a scene of snug, domestic comfort. Imagine an idyllic pastoral land,...
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Christian Humanist Profiles 36: Tolkien’s Sacramental Vision
In his introduction to George Macdonald’s Phantastes, C.S. Lewis credits the novel with baptizing his imagination, giving him a taste for the good and the numinous that led, ultimately, to Christian...
View ArticleChristian Humanist Profiles 46: The Oxford Inklings
“Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.” With this proverb, the ancient Hebrew sages defined the value of friendship. Similarly, the Stoic Marcus Aurelius began his Meditations enumerating...
View ArticleThe Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #174: Tolkien for the Hostile
David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour attempt to defend the works of J.R.R. Tolkien against Michial Farmer–a well-known hater. CORRECTION: Grubbs mentions Faramir meditating sympathetically about a dead...
View ArticleChristian Humanist Profiles 61: Joseph Loconte
Before the wars in Middle-earth, before the battles of Narnia, there was a war in Europe—the Great War, the war to end war, that fell tragically short of that dream of peace, and left men and nations...
View ArticleChristian Humanist Profiles 132: Philip Ryken
In his introduction to Beowulf, the scholar Friedrich Klaeber explains the great Geatish warrior’s resemblances to Christ by concluding that “the narrative derived a superior dignity from suggesting...
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