A Cross Philosophy

Welcome! Please shoot me an email with feedback about the episode, suggestions for future episodes, or whatever! acrossphilosophy@gmail.com Or, leave a voice message for me! Just use the link: https://anchor.fm/a-cross-philosophy1/message Source material: Prayer of Origen https://acollectionofprayers.com/tag/origen/ Prologue to Commentary on the Song of Songs https://books.google.com/books?id=Mjxy0Fl7VMsC&pg=PA21&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false Matthew 19:11-12 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+19&version=NIV Matthew 5:27-30 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=matthew+5&version=NIV Readings of Scripture:           Body reading -- Text has a basic, "literal" meaning - the way it was written.           Soul reading -- Text has a "moral" meaning - how believers should live.           Spirit reading -- Text has a "Christ" meaning - relationship of Christ to the Church. 1 Corinthians 10:1-4 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+10&version=NIV Exodus 17:6-7 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=exodus+17&version=NIV Numbers 20:7-13 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=numbers+20&version=NIV Galatians 4:22-26 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=galatians+4&version=NIV On First Principles http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/04120.htm Hebrews 11:24-26 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=hebrews+11&version=NIV Origen in modern theology: https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/03/27/its-not-important-if-the-bible-is-true-what-matters-is-that-its-real/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Welcome! Please shoot me an email with feedback about the episode, suggestions for future episodes, or whatever! acrossphilosophy@gmail.com   Or, leave a voice message for me! Just use the link: https://anchor.fm/a-cross-philosophy1/message  If you like the show, leave us some great & positive feedback. If you don't love the show, email me about how I can improve. Thanks for listening!  The Confessions of St. Augustine: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/hum100/augustinconf.pdf Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2500 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Thanks for listening! Please send us an email with feedback about the episode, suggestions for future episodes, or whatever! acrossphilosophy@gmail.com    Or, leave a voice message for us! Just use the link: https://anchor.fm/a-cross-philosophy1/message Source material: On the Unity of the Intellect against the Averroists https://issuu.com/bouvard6/docs/saint_thomas_aquinas_beatrice_h Comparison/Contrast of Averroës and Aquinas https://epublications.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1758&context=phil_fac Summa Theologica https://www3.nd.edu/~afreddos/summa-translation/TOC.htm The 4 Causes:  1. Material cause = the stuff of matter--potentiality 2. Formal cause = the form of matter--its essence--God is the only being with complete actuality and essence, and is the only pure formal cause and needs no potentiality 3. Efficient cause = something that has an effect 4. Final cause = goal or purpose toward which a thing is oriented--the ultimate goal of humanity is to behold the Divine Essence The 5 Ways 1. Evidence of Motion 2. Effects must have causes; there must be a beginning cause. 3. Matter cannot create itself; there must be a way to account for the first matter. 4. The existence of gradations implies an ultimate starting point for comparison. 5. Behavior of things implies a Grand Designer.  --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Welcome! Please shoot me an email with feedback about the episode, suggestions for future episodes, or whatever! acrossphilosophy@gmail.com   Or, leave a voice message for me! Just use the link: https://anchor.fm/a-cross-philosophy1/message   Text of the story: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/POE/belfry.html Change is tough. What are we really holding onto when we resist change? Is tradition good or bad? --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Welcome! Please shoot me an email with feedback about the episode, suggestions for future episodes, or whatever! acrossphilosophy@gmail.com   Or, leave a voice message for me! Just use the link: https://anchor.fm/a-cross-philosophy1/message   Source material: Proslogium - https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/anselm-proslogium.asp Why the God-man? (Cur Deus Homo) - https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/anselm-curdeus.asp Anselm's ontological argument for the existence of God: By definition, God is the greatest possible being that can be imagined. God exists as an idea in the mind. A being that exists as an idea in the mind AND in reality is greater than a being that exists only as an idea in the mind. Thus, if God exists only as an idea in the mind, then we can imagine something that is greater than God. But we cannot imagine something that is greater than God (for it is a contradiction to imagine a being greater than the greatest possible being that can be imagined.) Therefore, God exists. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Welcome! Please shoot me an email with feedback about the episode, suggestions for future episodes, or whatever! acrossphilosophy@gmail.com Or, leave a voice message for me! Just use the link: https://anchor.fm/a-cross-philosophy1/message Source material: Bible passages: https://www.biblegateway.com/ Prayer of Athanasius: https://classicalchristianity.com/2011/10/15/the-dying-prayer-of-st-athanasius/ On the Incarnation: https://www.ccel.org/ccel/athanasius/incarnation.ix.html Nicene Creed, CE 325: https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/nicenecreed.asp Luke 1:34-35: “How will this be,” Mary asked the angel, “since I am a virgin?” The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God. 2 Corinthians 13:14: May the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Matthew 3:16-17: As soon as Jesus was baptized, he went up out of the water. At that moment heaven was opened, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and alighting on him. And a voice from heaven said, “This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased.” Orations Against the Arians: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2816.htm --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This is the second installment about Augustine. I highly suggest you go listen to the first installment, if you have not already done so! Here's the link to Part 1: https://anchor.fm/a-cross-philosophy1/episodes/Augustine-of-Hippo--pt--1-ed89h1 Welcome! Please shoot me an email with feedback about the episode, suggestions for future episodes, or whatever! acrossphilosophy@gmail.com Or, leave a voice message for me! Just use the link: https://anchor.fm/a-cross-philosophy1/message Source material: Augustine: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/ Plotinus: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plotinus/#Infl On the Trinity: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1301.htm The Confessions: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/hum100/augustinconf.pdf An Introduction to Augustine's Confessions: https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/augustine/introconf.html Romans 13: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+13&version=NIV The Confessions app: https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/unit/networkphoneconnect/VillanovaMobileApps/augustine-s-confessions.html --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Welcome! Please shoot me an email with feedback about the episode, suggestions for future episodes, or whatever! acrossphilosophy@gmail.com Or, leave a voice message for me! Just use the link: https://anchor.fm/a-cross-philosophy1/message Source material: Augustine: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/augustine/ Plotinus: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plotinus/#Infl On the Trinity: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1301.htm The Confessions: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/hum100/augustinconf.pdf An Introduction to Augustine's Confessions: https://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/augustine/introconf.html Romans 13: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+13&version=NIV The Confessions app: https://www1.villanova.edu/villanova/unit/networkphoneconnect/VillanovaMobileApps/augustine-s-confessions.html Part 2: https://anchor.fm/a-cross-philosophy1/episodes/Augustine-of-Hippo--pt-2-ed89eg --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Welcome! Please shoot me an email with feedback about the episode, suggestions for future episodes, or whatever! acrossphilosophy@gmail.com  Or, leave a voice message for me! Just use the link: https://anchor.fm/a-cross-philosophy1/message If you like the show, leave us some great & positive feedback. If you don't love the show, email me about how I can improve. Thanks for listening! Source material: Hocking, William Ernest. Types of Philosophy. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1929. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.932/page/n4/mode/2up Russell, Bertrand. A History of Western Philosophy. New York: Touchstone. 1972. http://www.ntslibrary.com/PDF%20Books/History%20of%20Western%20Philosophy.pdf What is Theology? https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0040571X9609900203?journalCode=tjxa Believing vs. Knowing: https://philosophynow.org/issues/6/When_Does_Believing_Become_Knowing --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Thank you for listening! Please email me at acrossphilosophy@gmail.com with any suggestions, input, or feedback! OR, leave me a voice message, and you might appear on the show! https://anchor.fm/a-cross-philosophy1/message A look at Tertullian (2nd century) Source Material: On Baptism available http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0321.htm Apology available http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0301.htm On Idolatry available http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0302.htm Prayer of Irenaeus -- Against Heresies, 3.6.4 http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103.htm Baptism -- On Baptism 12, 16  Love Feasts -- Apology 39 Military Service -- On Idolatry 19 Church & State -- Apology 32 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Thank you for listening! Please email me at acrossphilosophy@gmail.com with any suggestions, input, or feedback! OR, leave me a voice message, and you might appear on the show! https://anchor.fm/a-cross-philosophy1/message A look at Irenaeus of Lyons (2nd century) Source material : Against Heresies available http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0103.htm Demonstration of the Apostolic Teaching available https://ccel.org/ccel/irenaeus/demonstr/demonstr.i.html Luke 8:10 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke+8&version=NIV Acts 9 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts+9&version=NIV “It was necessary to clearly prove, and also to bring forward their doctrines, with the hope that perchance some of them, exercising repentance and returning to the only Creator and God, the Maker of the universe, may obtain salvation.” (Against Heresies, 1.31.3) Rule of Faith, an early creed (Against Heresies, 1.10.1) “Suppose there arise a dispute relative to some important question among us, should we not have recourse to the most ancient Churches with which the apostles held constant intercourse, and learn from them what is certain and clear in regard to the present question? For how should it be if the apostles themselves had not left us writings? Would it not be necessary, [in that case,] to follow the course of the tradition which they handed down to those to whom they did commit the Churches?” (Against Heresies, Book 3) “There is shown forth One God, the Father . . . above whom there is no other God, and after whom there is no other God . . . By the Word He created the things that were made . . . rightly and fittingly the Word is the Son . . . The Spirit gives order and form to the diversity of the powers . . . rightly and fittingly the Spirit [is called] the Wisdom of God.” (Demonstration of the Apostolic Teaching, Book 5) “We cast blame upon Him, because we have not been made gods from the beginning, but at first merely men, then at length gods; although God has adopted this course out of His pure benevolence.” (Against Heresies, 4.38.4) John 10:33-36 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+10&version=NIV Reference to Matthew, Mark, Luke, & John as the only 4 gospels (Against Heresies 3.11.7-8) --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

This podcast will be a look at the lives and writings of individual Christians throughout history. Several overarching questions guide the material presented in each episode. This podcast is NOT an apologetic, but it is a fresh and honest look at old ideas. Moreover, it is a call to imitate those who have gone before, whether you are a Christian or not. Some general source information: Bainton, Roland H. Christianity. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. Ferguson, Everett. Early Christians Speak: Faith and Life in the First Three Centuries. Abilene: Abilene Christian University Press, 1999. Green, Bradley, Editor. Shapers of Christian Orthodoxy. Downers Grove: IVP Academic, 2010. Hughes, Kevin L. Faith Handed On: Church History. Chicago: Loyola Press, 2001.