Are You Seeing Reality Wrong? A Catholic Philosopher Explains

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Dominican Friars Province of St. Joseph

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🗓️ 13 April 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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In this episode of Godsplaining, Fr. Bonaventure Chapman sits down with Professor Philip Rosemann to explore the deep connections between philosophy through the ages. Currently the Cottrill-Rolfes Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Kentucky, Prof. Rosemann has taught philosophy across the world, from in Belfast (N. Ireland), Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), Nkozi (Uganda), Dallas, and Maynooth (Ireland). In their conversation, Prof. Rosemann and Fr. Bonaventure work out the relation between nature and grace, as well liturgy and language. Reflecting on Prof. Rosemann's book, Gratia non tollit naturam: Technologies of the Self and the Catholic Constitution of Time and Space, and touching on his upcoming project on language, they tease out what it means to truly live liturgically highlighting the Liturgy of the Hours. Find Prof. Rosemann's latest book, Gratia non tollit naturam: Technologies of the Self and the Catholic Constitution of Time and Space, here: https://a.co/d/061j0LZH Interested in more? Find more book written by Prof. Rosemann here: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Philipp-W.-Rosemann/author/B001HCXRHS Send your questions for the friars to: godsplaining@opeast.org Subscribe to our channel https://www.youtube.com/c/Godsplaining Support the Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/godsplaining Shop merch: https://godsplaining.org/store/ Shop Books Written by the Friars Witness: https://www.avemariapress.com/products/witness-1?srsltid=AfmBOoo3b2MbHxat33i-cwrd1AcSW_hPBfcHcm4-8XxJoCDn4OUgTBe_ Training the Tongue: https://stpaulcenter.com/store/training-the-tongue-and-growing-beyond-sins-of-speech Your Eucharistic Identity: https://ignatius.com/your-eucharistic-identity-yeip/ St. Dominic's Way of Life: https://www.amazon.com/Saint-Dominics-Way-Life-Knowing/dp/1681929392 Prudence: Choose Confidently, Live Boldly: https://www.amazon.com/Prudence-Choose-Confidently-Live-Boldly/dp/1681927322/ Connect on Social Media Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/godsplaining/ Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/godsplaining/ Follow us on X: https://x.com/godsplaining To learn more about the Province of St. Joseph visit: www.opeast.org To support the Province of St. Joseph visit: www.dominicanfriars.org Intro - 00:00 Drawing connections between, ancient, medieval, modern and postmodern philosophy - 5:20 Studying at Louvain-la-Neuve - 7:20 Responding to God breaking through - 13:01 The tension between God's transcendence and the Incarnation - 17:17 Why is it important to think of the Catholic faith in the contemporary context? - 18:17 Gratia non tollit naturam - 21:53 Is modern philosophy just an abstract, theoretical construct? - 24:24 Our mediated contact with nature - 26:02 The structure of modern life - 28:39 Joseph Ratzinger and liturgy - 30:25 Having fun with Germany terminology - 32:00 The modern subject vs the liturgical subject - 32:45 The liturgical subject notion, in Catholic space and time - 34:40 The Liturgy of the Hours - 37:45 "Otherness," Divine eruption, and living liturgically - 42:26 Professor Rosemann's latest project - 45:32 Reflection on language today - 46:25 What does it mean to learn to speak God's language? - 47:19

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0:00.0	This is Father Bonimichard Chapman, and welcome to Godsplaining.
0:09.0	Thanks for all those who support us on Patreon. You can do so with a monthly donation.
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0:18.0	Wherever you listen to your podcasts, I am very excited because I,
0:23.5	this is a guest spaining. I do love guest-splaining episodes, and I have a very special guest.
0:27.5	This is Professor Philip Rosemond. Professor Rosemond, welcome to Godsplaining.
0:32.9	I'm very happy to be here. Thanks for having me.
0:35.6	Okay. Let me just introduce since some of our viewers
0:38.4	or listeners or podcasters, podcast E's, will not know about you yet. Oh dear. Oh dear. That is shocking.
0:46.6	I know. It's incredible. Maybe they're probably going to write in the comments so we all know. We all
0:51.1	know Professor Rosemont. So Professor Rosemont is the Cochrerell-Rolfe's chair in Catholic Studies at the University of Kentucky.
0:58.0	And you can tell his accent is a kind of Kentucky deep Kentucky accent.
1:01.7	He's joined that department since 2003.
1:05.5	Now, Professor Rosemont has plenty of things in his background.
1:09.4	I'll just mention that he has a master's from Ireland. He did studies in grew up in Germany, a licentiate and a PhD
1:16.1	de Lisbon, and then another doctorate. This is a here, Dr. Dr. Rosemont, from the National
1:25.9	University of Ireland.
1:28.3	He also spent time... That kind of thing is very, very important in Germany, so I...
1:30.7	It's extremely...
1:31.3	I will insist that for the duration of the interview, you refer to me as Professor Doctor Doctor,
1:37.2	otherwise I would be deeply offended.
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