June
2011
Faith and Theology: Audio lecture: lessons from Augustine’s De Trinitate
“Over the past several weeks, my class on the trinity has been working through Augustine’s De Trinitate – an immense challenge! Today we reached the great finale of Book 15. So I tried to sum up Augustine’s theology of the trinity in a final lecture, outlining a series of brief “lessons from Augustine”. I had to record the lecture for some of the students, so I thought I’d also post it here. If you’re interested, you can listen below – there are six short parts, each about 10 minutes:”
Go grab them here. From Ben Myers’ Faith and Theology blog.
June
2008
Dante’s Divine Comedy
UC Berkely have made available mp3s of various lecture series, which are well worth a look. Last time, I mentioned three lectures on Dante’s Divine Comedy which are part of a course on Man, God, and Society in Western Literature delivered buy Hubert Dreyfus. The course description is:
Man, God, and Society in Western Literature – Spring 2007. Philosophical issues as expressed in poetry, drama, and the novel. This course will compare and contrast the Greek, Medieval, and modern worlds, as reflected in their greatest literature, with special emphasis on the role of the community in reconciling conflicts between sub-groups in society and the individual’s ability to understand and control his own life. We will also follow man’s realization that the changing answers to these questions are themselves self-interpretations.
You can get hold of the mp3s for this course here. The Divine Comedy is about halfway down, but you might like to listen to some of the others.
May
2008
The Dissolution of the Monasteries
I didn’t really cover much of the Dissolution yesterday, but the reaction of the population to the closing of the monasteries by Henry’s commissioners tells you something about the role of religious communities in 16th century England.
Radio 4′s In Our Time recently did a good 45 minute programme on the Dissolution.