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    The Ad Fontes Podcast

    The writers and editors podcast of Ad Fontes, a journal of Protestant letters from The Davenant Institute. We don't just think ABOUT the sources; we think THROUGH the sources.
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    Episodes (85)

    So Moderate

    So Moderate

    This week, Rhys and Colin are joined by Davenant House Groundskeeper Jonathan McKenzie to discuss the virtue of moderation. Prompted by Davenant Press's recent publication A Treatise on Christian Moderation, they discuss the philosophical history of moderation, how it relates to both physical and intellectual pursuits, and how it fits into the pursuit of holiness.

    Timestamps
    00:00:00-00:14:00 - intro; defining moderation with Aristotle
    00:14:11-00:32:57 - Joseph Hall and the civil war; physical and intellectual moderation
    00:33:07-00:46:49 - objections to moderation; moderation as an extreme
    00:46:49-end - what we're reading; spotlight; end

    Texts Discussed
    A Treatise on Christian Moderation by Joseph Hall

    Spotlight
    Ad Fontes Winter 2024 print edition available now!

    What We're Reading
    Jonathan: David Pareus and Richard Baxter
    Colin: King Lear by William Shakespeare
    Rhys: Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton by Nicholas McDowell

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    en-usMarch 04, 2024

    Space: The Final Frontier

    Space: The Final Frontier

    Recorded in August 2023, Colin hosts this special live episode with the return of Onsi Kamel and our most featured guest, Colin's brother Justin.

    Colin, Onsi, and Justin discuss a paper Onsi delivered at the Bay Area Thomas Aquinas Society conference on a Thomistic view of "place". Albert the Great, Thomas' mentor, saw close links between metaphysics and his view of place physics - a physics which we now know is outdated. What did he believe about place? Does it hold up today with modern science? Can we salvage anything from medieval views of place and metaphysics?

    Timestamps
    00:00:00-00:11:35 - theology and science; Thomistic physics and metaphysics; place
    00:11:43-00:23:51 - Albert the Great on place; place and form; what the sun does
    00:24:02-end four elements; is space relative or absolute?; why space matters

    Texts Discussed
    De Natura Loci by Albert the Great

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    Made Like the Maker

    Made Like the Maker

    Happy New Year! Rhys and Colin are back together to discuss Made Like the Maker, the second volume in Colin's modernization of Thomas Traherne's Christian Ethics. They talk about who Traherne was, before diving into the nature of Christian ethics, what wisdom of "the whole" means, and Colin's provocative introductory essay to the book.

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    Timestamps
    00:00:00 – 00:08:31 - welcome; intro to Thomas Traherne
    00:08:40 - 00:22:10 - the nature of Christian ethics
    00:22:21 - 00:27:03 - wisdom and knowledge of the whole
    00:27:13 - 00:42:00 - the spiritual technology of Christian poetics
    00:42:08 - end - what we're reading; spotlight; wrap-up


    Currently Reading
    Colin: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
    Rhys: All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy   


    Texts Discussed
    Made Like the Maker by Thomas Traherne
    "Errantry" by J.R.R. Tolkien

    Spotlight
    Natural Theology: A Biblical and Historical Introduction and Defense (Second Edition) by David Haines

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    Why "The Road" is a Christmas Story

    Why "The Road" is a Christmas Story

    It's a Christmas special! This week, Rhys and Colin discuss an unlikely candidate for a Christmas story: The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Is there anything festive to be fount in this famously bleak post-apocalyptic story? Much in every way!

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    Timestamps
    00:00:00 – 00:11:17 - welcome; introduction to The Road
    00:11:28 - 00:21:18 - The Road as a love story; Platonic forms; materialism
    00:21:28 - 00:31:54 - the Word of God; carrying the fire
    00:32:04 -00:46:31 the truth about the world; effeminacy
    00:46:41 - end - what we're reading; Davenant Spotlight, wrap-up


    Currently Reading
    Colin: The Harmonian Man by Charles Fourier
    Rhys: Mystery in White by J. Jefferson Farjeon


    Texts Discussed
    The Road by Cormac McCarthy

    Spotlight
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    en-usDecember 19, 2023

    "Begotten or Made?" - Chapter 3 (Pt. 2)

    "Begotten or Made?" - Chapter 3 (Pt. 2)

    This week, Rhys and Colin continue their readthrough of Begotten or Made? by Oliver O'Donovan. Continuing through Chapter 3, they discuss the realities of artificial insemination by donor, covering the ethics of donor anonymity, and the motives behind AID verses adoption.

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    Timestamps
    00:00:00 – 00:19:08 Intro; recap; the ends of the procreative organs; representation by effacement or replacement
    00:19:19 - 00:27:29 - donor anonymity
    00:27:41 - 00:47:03 - is AID like adoption?
    00:47:13 - end - What We're Reading; Davenant Spotlight; wrap up


    Currently Reading
    Colin: Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Defining Difference by Audre Lorde   
    Rhys: The Road by Cormac McCarthy   


    Texts Discussed
    Begotten or Made? by Oliver O'Donovan

    Spotlight
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    en-usDecember 04, 2023

    "Begotten or Made?" - Chapter 3 (Pt. 1)

    "Begotten or Made?" - Chapter 3 (Pt. 1)

    This week, Rhys and Colin continue their readthrough of Begotten or Made? by Oliver O'Donovan. In Ch. 3, O'Donovan finally addresses the topic of artificial insemination, addressing questions about the ends of medical intervention; the differences between cure, compensation, and circumvention in treatment; and the ethics of involving a third party in the reproductive process.

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    Timestamps
    00:00:00 – 00:10:39 - Intro; recap; the possibility of artificial insemination by donor
    00:10:50 – 00:24:43 - the ends of AID; the multiple goods of the procreative organs; cure, circumvention, and compensation
    00:24:54 – 00:38:39 - ethics of the third party in AID; reproduction a private act; proxy relationships and their limits
    00:38:38 – 00:50:14 - the Patriarchal and Levirate patterns in Scripture; problematic anonymity of AID
    00:50:23 - end - What We’re Reading; Spotlight; wrap-up


    Currently Reading
    Colin: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
    Rhys: Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes


    Texts Discussed
    Begotten or Made? by Oliver O'Donovan

    Spotlight
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    We're All Hoboes Now (ft. Nathan Johnson)

    We're All Hoboes Now (ft. Nathan Johnson)

    This week, Rhys and Colin are joined by Nathan Johnson, Provost of Davenant Hall, to discuss his Ad Fontes article "When Rights Go Wrong: Simone Weil on Uprootedness and the Way Forward". Why are obligations more important than rights? What roots do human societies need to flourish? And is rootedness compatible with multiculturalism? They discuss all these questions and more!

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    Timestamps
    00:00:00-00:13:21 - Intro; introduction to Simon Weil and The Need for Roots
    00:13:31-00:30:52 difference between rights and obligations; Weil vs. the social contract
    00:31:03-00:54:14 the need for roots; roots and multiculturalism
    00:54:24-end - what we're reading; spotlight; wrap up

    Currently Reading
    Colin: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass  
    Rhys: Covenant: The New Politics of Home, Neighbourhood, and Nation by Danny Kruger
     Nathan: The Shining Human Creature by Thomas Traherne

    Texts Discussed
    "When Rights Go Wrong: Simone Weil on Uprootedness and the Way Forward" by Nathan Johnson
    The Need for Roots by Simone Weil
    "The Iliad, or the Poem of Force" by Simone Weil

    Spotlight
    Made Like the Maker by Thomas Traherne (pre-order now!)

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    en-usOctober 18, 2023

    "Begotten or Made?" - Chapter 2 (Pt. 3)

    "Begotten or Made?" - Chapter 2 (Pt. 3)

    This week, Rhys and Colin resume their walkthrough of Begotten or Made? by Oliver O'Donovan.

    Having discussed "the psychological case" in transsexualism, they now discuss O'Donovan's account of "the social case". What are we saying when we refuse to admit someone is "in the wrong body", yet make social allowances for them? Should medicine be marhsaled in service of social problems? And whose job is it to make someone face reality? All these questions and more are hashed out this week.

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    Timestamps
    00:00:00-00:07:00 - Intro; Begotten or Made? recap
    00:07:13-00:30:30 - "The social case" in transsexualism; reality claims; changes in trans issues; accommodation at scale; can you put the breaks on?; thankfulness for reality
    00:30:40-00:38:43 - Who is responsible for burdening someone with reality?; can we avoid the reductio ad absurdum?;
    00:38:53-00:45:23 - Welcome v. acceptance of reality; vocations of the body
    00:45:33-end - What We're Reading; Davenant Spotlight; wrap up

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    Currently Reading
    Colin: The Florentine Codex by Bernardino de Sagahun
    Rhys: A Prefeace to Paradise Lost by C.S. Lewis 

    Texts Discussed
    Begotten or Made? by Oliver O'Donovan

    Spotlight
    Communicating God's Trinitarian Fullness by Joe Rigney

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    en-usOctober 02, 2023

    Time to Meet Your Hoedemaker (ft. James Wood)

    Time to Meet Your Hoedemaker (ft. James Wood)

    We're back! This week, Rhys and Colin are joined by James Wood, discussing his recent Ad Fontes article "How Abraham Kuyper Lost the Nation and Sidelined the Church."

    They discuss Kuyper's approach to church and state, the critiques made by his forgotten foil Hoedemaker, and how their debates are relevant to contemporary debates about politics and the renewal of the church.

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    Timestamps
    00:00:00-:00:11:09  - Intro and introduction to Abraham Kuyper
    00:11:18-00:24:16 - Kuyper on church and state; Hoedemaker's objections
    00:24:28-00:34:17 - Hoedemaker, a bridge between Reformation political theology and modern liberal politics; Christians and public schools
    00:34:28-00:52:16 - important dead Dutch guys; staying or going in compromised denominations
    00:52:26-end - what we're reading; conclusion

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    Currently Reading
    Colin: Starry Messenger by Galileo Galilei
    Rhys: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 
    James: City of God by Augustine; Reformed Ethics by Herman Bavinck; TheToxic War on Masculinity by Nancy Pearcey

    Texts Discussed
    "How Abraham Kuype Lost the Nation and Sidelined the Church" by James Wood
    "Calvin's Complex Ecumenism" by James Wood
    Aaron's Rod Blossoming by George Gillespie
    The Two Kingdoms: A Guide for the Perplexed by Brad Littlejohn

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    en-usSeptember 18, 2023

    Welcome to Hot Dog Church 🌭⛪

    Welcome to Hot Dog Church 🌭⛪

    In Onsi's final episode as a host, he, Colin, and Rhys talk about the dominant force in American Protestantism: the non-denominational megachurch (or, to its truest admirers, "hot dog church"). Does Davenant do hot dog church? What are its strengths? How does it fit into the Reformation tradition?

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    Texts Discussed
    "Catholicism Made Me Protestant" by Onsi Kamel
    Confessions by Augustine

    Spotlight
    Second Annual Bay Area Davenant Dinner (Saturday August 12 2023)

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    en-usJuly 17, 2023

    SPECIAL: The Classical Learning Test (Twitter Space w/ Jeremy Tate)

    SPECIAL: The Classical Learning Test (Twitter Space w/ Jeremy Tate)

    The classical education world has experienced some healthy internal debate recently. Two significant features of modern education - an emphasis on diversity and the prevalence of standardized testing - have come into focus in discussions around the increasingly popular Classical Learning Test (CLT). Here, we repost audio of a Twitter Spaces conversation between Colin Redemer and Jeremy Tate, Founder and CEO of the CLT as they discuss the state of the CLT and classical education more broadly.

    Articles Behind the Discussion
    "Classical Education's Woke Co-Morbidity" by Matthew Freeman
    "Awkward Family Dinner: A Review of Reforming Classical Education" by Austin Hoffman
    "Revisiting Platonic Education: The Ever Shareable Feast" by Colin Redemer
    "The Ends of "Mere Classical" Schools" by Clifford Humphrey
    "Diverse Classics and Whole Person" by Jeremy Tate
    "Toward A Classical Counter Elite" by Matthew Freeman
    "Is the CLT going woke?" by Ben Merkle

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    en-usJuly 03, 2023

    Christ and the Nations (LIVE from Convivium 2023!)

    Christ and the Nations (LIVE from Convivium 2023!)

    Recorded LIVE at our 2023 National Convivium Irenicum, Colin and Onsi are joined by Pastor Daniel Doleys to discuss the sessions from our annual gathering, which focussed on "Christ and the Nations: A Protestant Theology of Statecraft". They talk about Schleirmacher,  kingship, supererrogation (whatever that is), and more.

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    Currently Reading
    Onsi: "Against Aristotle on the Eternity of the World" by John Philoponus
    Colin: "White Dress" by Lana Del Rey
    Daniel: "Divine Providence" by Stephen Charnock

    Texts Discussed
    N/A

    Spotlight
    Synopsis of a Purer Theology 

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    en-usJune 12, 2023

    Ask Me Anything!

    Ask Me Anything!

    This week, Onsi, Colin, and Rhys answer YOUR questions! They talk about Onsi's problem with C.S. Lewis, working in a Catholic college, a curriculum for the classics, Protestant and Thomism, whether modernity exists, and why they've remained silent on the topic of fairies.

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    Currently Reading
    Onsi: The Book of Khalid by Ameen Rihani
    Colin: "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron
    Rhys: First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami

    Texts Discussed
    The Iliad and the Odyssey by Homer
    Theogony and Works and Days by Hesiod
    Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
    Lives by Plutarch
    Enduring Divine Absence by Joseph Minich
    Bulwarks of Unbelief by Joseph Minich
    The Discarded Image by C.S. Lewis
    The Myth of Disecnhantment by Jason Josephson-Storm

    Spotlight
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    en-usMay 22, 2023

    "Begotten or Made?" - Chapter 2 (Pt. 2)

    "Begotten or Made?" - Chapter 2 (Pt. 2)

    How does our society perceive gender confusion? Continuing their readthrough of Begotten or Made? Onsi, Colin, and Rhys discuss what Oliver O'Donovan calls "the psychological case", one of two ways our society tries to explain the problem, but which he argues is fraught with insonsistencies.

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    Currently Reading
    Onsi: The Philosophy of History by G.W.F. Hegel  
    Colin: The Social Contract by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    Rhys: God's Clockmaker: Richard of Wallingford and the Invention of Time by John North

    Texts Discussed
    Begotten or Made? by Oliver O'Donovan

    Spotlight
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    en-usMay 01, 2023

    Image Problem

    Image Problem

    People talk a lot about "the image of God" these days, or the imago dei. But what do they mean by this? Often, it's not what people used to mean. This week Onsi, Colin, and Rhys talk about shifting views of "the image of God", the lack of traditional consensus on the topic, and whether you even need the idea to talk about human dignity.

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    Currently Reading
    Onsi: The Art of Bible Translation by Robert Alter
    Colin: The Nixton Tapes: 1973, edited by Douglas Brinkley and Luke A. Nichter  
    Rhys: A Brief History of the Hundred Years War by Desmond Seward

    Texts Discussed
    Rhys' midwit meme
    De Trinitate by Augustine
    Categories by Aristotle
    Summa Theologiae I.91.a3 by Thomas Aquinas (on angels and the image of God)
    Institutes 1.15.3 by John Calvin

    Spotlight
    First Annual Davenant Award Banquet (Wednesday 19th April 2023)

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    en-usApril 17, 2023

    "Begotten or Made?" - Chapter 2 (Pt. 1)

    "Begotten or Made?" - Chapter 2 (Pt. 1)

    Procreation is linked to the male-female binary. But how do we respond to that reality: with welcome, or resentment? Onsi, Colin, and Rhys continue their readthrough of Oliver O'Donovan's Begotten or Made?  and tackle this question and more as they reach Chapter 2, "Sex By Artifice."

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    Currently Reading
    Onsi: The Search After Truth by Nicolas Malebranche
    Colin: Mutlipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman
    Rhys: They Were Counted by Miklos Banffy

    Texts Discussed
    Begotten or Made? by Oliver O'Donovan
    That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
    "St. Andrew's Day, 1935" by George Orwell
    Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body by Pope John Paul II

    Spotlight
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    en-usApril 03, 2023

    WARNING: This Education Contains Plato

    WARNING: This Education Contains Plato

    Should Christian classical education teach Plato? Or any philosophy, for that matter? This week, Onsi, Colin, and Rhys discuss Colin's recent Ad Fontes article, responding a to a review of his chapter in Reforming Classical Education. They discuss whether Christian high schoolers should really be learning philosophy, and why Christians who believe philosophical primary texts to be important should handle them with care.

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    Currently Reading
    Onsi: The Republic of Arabic Letters: Islam and the European Englightenment by Alexander Bevilacqua
    Colin: Discourse of Method and Mediations on First Philosophy byRene Descartes
    Rhys: The Dissolution of the Monasteries: A New History byJames G.L. Clark

    Texts Discussed
    Reforming Classical Education: A New Paradigm
    "Awkward Family Dinner: A Review of Reforming Classical Education" by Austin Hoffman
    "Revisiting Platonic Education: The Ever Sharable Feast" by Colin Redemer
    "Same-Sex Marriage and Constitutional Law" by Martha Nussbaum
    Republic by Plato

    Spotlight
    The New Albion - Rhys Laverty's new Substack (subscribe now!)

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    en-usMarch 20, 2023

    "Begotten or Made?" - Chapter 1 (Pt. 3)

    "Begotten or Made?" - Chapter 1 (Pt. 3)

    How did our society's view of freedom come about? And why would Christians ever have a problem with compassion? Continuing their readthrough of Begotten or Made?, Onsi, Colin, and Rhys discuss these big questions, which ends up involving a surprisng conversation about opera.

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    Currently Reading
    Onsi: The Passenger andStella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
    Colin: Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
    Rhys: Stories With Intent by Klyne R. Snodgrass

    Texts Discussed
    Begotten or Made? by Oliver O'Donovan
    "Wartime broadcast, 1940" by Princess Elizabeth and Princes Margaret
    That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
    The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis  
    Meaning in History by Karl Lowith
    The Magic Flute by Mozart
    Fidelio by Beethoven

    Spotlight
    The Shining Human Creature by Thomas Traherne

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    en-usMarch 07, 2023

    Lost In Translations

    Lost In Translations

    How should Christians approach Bible translation? Should Scripture be fitted into out native language, or should our native language stretch to make room for Scripture?
    This is a key question for Protestantism, which was birthed in the context of new biblical translations. Translations produced by Protestants, such as Luther's Bible and the KJV, have undoubtedly shaped their native tongues. This week, Onsi, Colin, and Rhys talk about different translations and their approaches.

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    Onsi: Collected Poems by C.P. Cavafy  
    Colin: A Secular Age by Charles Taylor  
    Rhys: Richard II by William Shakespeare

    Texts Discussed
    "On the Different Methods of Translating" by Friedrich Schleirmacher
    The Message by Eugene Peterson
    "Presbyterians in Egypt" by Onsi Kamel
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    "Begotten or Made?" - Chapter 1 (Pt. 2)

    "Begotten or Made?" - Chapter 1 (Pt. 2)

    Should technology have a role in human reproduction? This is the basic question tackled by Oliver O'Donovan's book Begotten or Made?, one of the 20th century's most important works of medical ethics, and recently republished by the Davenant Press. This week, our co-hosts continue their walkthrough of the book, unpacking its riches. They discuss what kind of art medicine is, why people seem to hate their own flesh, whether technocracy precedes technology, and more.

    NOTE: most books below are linked via Bookshop.org. Any purchases you make via these links give The Davenant Institute a 10% commission, and support local bookshops against chainstores/Amazon.

    Currently Reading
    Onsi: Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
    Colin: The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R Tolkien
    Rhys: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (on Audible)

    Texts Discussed
    Begotten or Made? by Oliver O'Donovan

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