Podcast appearances and mentions of Christopher O Blum

In this special episode, Dr. Christopher O. Blum sits down to reflect on St. Thomas Becket and what we can learn from his heroic witness today.

This fourth episode touches on the need for courage in the Christian life. In this four-part series, Dr. Ben Akers and Dr. Christopher O. Blum sit down to discuss St. Francis de Sales, his best known work The Introduction to the Devout Life, and the character of a christian revealed through his life's witness and writings. We hope you enjoy this new series on an incredible counter-reformation saint who truly is a gift of God to the universal Church and from whom we can learn much today.

This third episode focuses on St. Francis de Sales and his teaching on the moral life, virtue, and the place of sincerity in the Christian life. In this four-part series, Dr. Ben Akers and Dr. Christopher O. Blum sit down to discuss St. Francis de Sales, his best known work The Introduction to the Devout Life, and the character of a christian revealed through his life's witness and writings. We hope you enjoy this new series on an incredible counter-reformation saint who truly is a gift of God to the universal Church and from whom we can learn much today.

This second episode focuses on St. Francis de Sales and his teaching on attentiveness and prayer. In this four-part series, Dr. Ben Akers and Dr. Christopher O. Blum sit down to discuss St. Francis de Sales, his best known work The Introduction to the Devout Life, and the character of a christian revealed through his life's witness and writings. We hope you enjoy this new series on an incredible counter-reformation saint who truly is a gift of God to the universal Church and from whom we can learn much today.

This first episode introduces St. Francis de Sales, the times in which he lived, and looks at a fundamental virtue for the Christian life: obedience. In this four-part series, Dr. Ben Akers and Dr. Christopher O. Blum sit down to discuss St. Francis de Sales, his best known work "The Introduction to the Devout Life", and the character of a Christian. We hope you enjoy this new series on an incredible counter-reformation Saint and apply his wisdom to your life today.

Christopher O. Blum is Academic Dean and Professor of History and Philosophy at the Augustine Institute in Denver, Colorado, having previously served on the faculties of Christendom College and the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts. He received his Ph.D. in European History and the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Notre Dame in 1996. He has published dozens of academic essays and numerous translations of early modern texts, including Roses Among Thorns (Sophia Institute Press, 2014), a collection of excerpts from the letters of St. Francis de Sales. He is co-author with Dr. Christopher Shannon of The Past as Pilgrimage: Narrative,Tradition and the Renewal of Catholic History.

Joshua P. Hochschild is Professor of Philosophy and Director of Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Mount St. Mary's University. About A MIND AT PEACE. RECLAIMING AN ORDERED SOUL IN AN AGE OF DISTRACTION These past two decades, modern technology has brought into being scores of powerful challenges to our interior peace and well-being. We're experiencing a worldwide crisis of attention in which information overwhelms us, corrodes true communion with others, and leaves us anxious, unsettled, bored, isolated, and lonely. These pages provide the time-tested antidote that enables you to regain an ordered and peaceful mind in a technologically advanced world. Drawing on the wisdom of the world's greatest thinkers, including Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, and St. Thomas Aquinas, these pages help you identify – and show you how to cultivate – the qualities of character you need to survive in our media-saturated environment. This book offers a calm, measured, yet forthright and effective approach to regaining interior peace. Here you'll find no argument for retreat from the modern world; instead these pages provide you with a practical guide to recovering self-mastery and interior peace through wise choices and ordered activity in the midst of the world's communication chaos. Are you increasingly frustrated and perplexed in this digital age? Do you yearn for a mind that is more focused and a soul able to put down that IPhone and simply rejoice in the good and the true? It's not hard to do. The saints and the wise can show you how; this book makes their counsel available to you. Website: https://www.sophiainstitute.com/products/item/a-mind-at-peace Source: Sophia Institute Press --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/john-aidan-byrne0/support

Dr. Christopher O. Blum: “Beginnings and Ends in Biology” by Thomas Aquinas College Lectures & Talks

Are you increasingly frustrated and perplexed in this age of technology? While you might be reading this on a your phone, maybe you've noticed that our technology can unite us but, more often, seems to make us more isolated and anxious. Professor Christopher O. Blum has been considering our digital age in light of the Catholic tradition and he has brought together his analysis and advice in his new book, "A Mind at Peace: Reclaiming an Ordered Soul in the Age of Distraction." CE is supported by Sophia Institute Press and our listeners. If you are able to donate, please visit http://catholicexchange.com/donateSupport the show (https://catholicexchange.com/donate)

Christopher O. Blum is Academic Dean and Professor of History and Philosophy at the Augustine Institute in Denver, Colorado, having previously served on the faculties of Christendom College and the Thomas More College of Liberal Arts. He received his Ph.D. in European History and the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Notre Dame in 1996. He has published dozens of academic essays and numerous translations of early modern texts, including Roses Among Thorns (Sophia Institute Press, 2014), a collection of excerpts from the letters of St. Francis de Sales. He is co-author with Dr. Christopher Shannon of The Past as Pilgrimage: Narrative,Tradition and the Renewal of Catholic History.

Host Kathleen Beckman dialogues with Professor Christopher Blum regarding the wisdom of Blessed John Henry Newman published in a new book, Everyday Meditations and the spirituality of St. Francis de Sales published in a new book, The Sign of the Cross. They discuss how the spirituality of the saints help us to live rich interior […]