87. Evolutionary Love and Other Big Ideas — John Durham Peters with Terryl Givens

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🗓️ 2 October 2021

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It can be delicious sometimes to just sit and listen to two great minds musing on some of the great questions of life. Even when their conversations feel a bit beyond our grasp, they point to deeper realms and invite us to journey with them into a richer intellectual life.

That’s exactly what we have for you today. Two of the great intellectuals in the Latter-day Saint world, Terryl Givens and John Durham Peters, invite us to drop in on a conversation between good friends—a conversation that ranges across a variety of fascinating topics.

John Durham Peters (born 1958) is Professor of English and Professor of Film & Media Studies at Yale University. A media historian and social theorist, he authored the acclaimed book Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communication. His other books include Courting the Abyss, and The Marvelous Clouds.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, this is Aubrey Chavez from Faith Matters. It can be a beautiful
0:04.3	experience sometimes to sit back and listen to two great minds musing on some of
0:08.4	the biggest questions of life. Even when their conversations feel a bit beyond
0:12.4	our grasp, they point to deeper realms and invite us to journey with them into a
0:16.2	richer intellectual life. That's exactly what we have for you today. Two of the
0:20.3	great intellectuals in the Latter-day St. World, Terrell Gibbons and John Durham
0:23.8	Peters, invite us to drop in on a conversation between good friends. A
0:27.6	conversation that ranges across a variety of fascinating topics. John Durham
0:32.2	Peters is a professor of English and professor of film and media studies at
0:36.0	Yale University. A media historian and social theorist, he authored the acclaimed
0:40.7	book Speaking Into the Air, a history of the idea of communication. His other
0:44.8	books include According the Abyss and the Marvelous Clouds. We hope that you
0:48.7	enjoy this episode. Hello and welcome to another episode of Conversations
0:54.1	with Terrell Gibbons sponsored by Faith Matters. I am here with one of my beloved
1:00.2	friends and an academic whom I just highly admire and love talking to because
1:07.4	he has such a lively and engaging mind. His name is John Durham Peters. He's the
1:14.3	Maria Rosa, a medical professor of English and a film.
1:18.9	The professor of English and a film and media studies at Yale. That's fairly recent,
1:28.7	right? You've been there just a few years. You came from... Four and a half years,
1:32.3	that long. Came from an endowed chair at Iowa. We can't seem to arrange
1:37.7	ourselves so that we're on the same half of the continent at the same time. But
1:42.5	he's well, as I mentioned, expert in media studies. You're quite prolific. You've
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