Beyond Cultural Christianity

Young Heretics

Spencer Klavan

Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Can Europe survive without its Christian spirit? Can the West? It's a question that's weighing on more and more intelligent people's minds, and Novalis helps us to grapple with it in a unique way. In this episode I look at three key areas--science, religion, and politics--where the secular spirit of Enlightenment humanism has exhausted itself and needs a new source of inspiration. Perhaps those sources are to be found in the middle ages, and perhaps Novalis can help us find them.

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0:00.0	Well, you've all heard of the Italian Renaissance, I'm sure.
0:04.0	Maybe you know about the Harlem Renaissance.
0:08.0	Perhaps you even remember Beyonces Renaissance, which was the album of the summer not too long ago.
0:14.0	But, my friends, would you mind if I told you about the medieval Renaissance? Renaissance. you know fellow kids but seriously we've been talking on the show about the
0:35.4	medieval Renaissance last week I introduced to you my pet theory that eras in history can leapfrog each other.
0:45.0	So just in the same way that when the Catholic Church was kind of worn out and spent intellectually from the Middle Ages, the pioneers of the Renaissance look back one
0:55.9	more era over to the pagan world and to Greece and Rome and they revived much of what
1:02.1	had been lost from that era, now we're at the end of about
1:06.2	500 years worth of departure from the medieval world that begins with the Renaissance and with the Protestant
1:14.3	reformation and the printing press and the scientific revolution and then
1:17.6	ultimately the Enlightenment gave us a lot of good stuff had a pretty good run
1:21.9	but is also much like the
1:24.0	medieval church is starting to look worn out and exhausted and we're in a bad way
1:29.7	if the dark ages were the grim tribalist repressive past that we all fear from the medieval world,
1:37.0	well I think we're pretty grim, tribal, and repressive now, just the fact that we casually kill babies in the womb, the fact that we are
1:47.7	unable to think of politics in any other way than kind of racial tribalism,
1:52.3	it all looks pretty primitive to me and
1:54.8	it looks desperately in need of some kind of revival and I suspect that the
2:00.4	source of that revival is going to be in the medieval world, which we have cut off from ourselves in much the same way as the medieval church cut itself off from the pagan world.
2:12.0	So that's my pet theory that I've been toying with and I found an
2:17.2	essay or I re-read an essay that really precisely says basically all of this way before any of the things I've just been talking
2:26.1	about were happening way before our contemporary era novales wrote in Christendom or Europe
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