020 - On David Foster Wallace

Godsplaining

Dominican Friars Province of St. Joseph

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2019

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Fr. Gregory and Fr. Bonaventure talk about one of their favorite contemporary authors--David Foster Wallace--and his commitment to truth as a new sincerity.

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0:00.0	Welcome to God's Plaining.
0:07.0	Contemplative Preachers, Contemporary Age.
0:10.0	Each week, join the Dominican friars as they consider all things Catholic.
0:15.0	Welcome to God's Plaining.
0:19.0	I am Father Gregory Pine joined here by Father Bonaventure Chapman.
0:23.0	How you doing?
0:23.8	Doing great, yourself.
0:25.3	Feeling groovy.
0:26.1	Hey, happy advent.
0:26.9	Happy advent.
0:27.9	That's right.
0:28.4	We are here, I guess, in the third or fourth week of Advent, something like that.
0:31.6	Maybe it's around Christmas Christmas I'm not sure
0:33.1	time warp because we record things before we post them. Ahhmm yeah we would never
0:38.6	tell you that the weight I just did. All right so let's see here here we are as in Olden Days, happy Golden Days, and we are in the end of, you know,
0:50.3	this semester here.
0:51.3	So, finished up first semester as a PhD candidate in the
0:54.6	Catholic University of America classes gone well I think so it's you know going back
1:00.0	from the other side of the lectern so teaching philosophy at the last two years so now I was grading
1:04.4	exams and writing them and now I'm actually going to be taking them again this week so that's a little bit different and
1:10.3	studying for them again is fascinating.
1:13.0	But yeah, I think it's good to get the mindset
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