Christian Imagination of Flannery O’Connor and J. R. R. Tolkien | Prof. Raymond Hain

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🗓️ 12 January 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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This lecture was given on October 29, 2020 at Baylor University.

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About the speaker:

Professor Raymond Hain is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Providence College and Associate Director of the Providence College Humanities Program. He received his BA in Philosophy from Christendom College and his MA and PhD in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame, where he studied under Ralph McInerny and David Solomon. He works primarily in moral philosophy in the Thomistic tradition, as well as topics in applied ethics (especially bioethics and the ethics of architecture) and connections between philosophy and literature. As part of the Humanities Program, he directs the Providence College Humanities Forum and the Providence College Humanities Reading Seminars.

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0:00.0	This talk is brought to you by the Tamistic Institute.
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0:11.1	It has been said that Art and the Saints are the greatest apologetics for the Christian faith.
0:19.2	I don't think it's too hard to see why this might be true.
0:23.1	Traditionally, the three deepest experiences of human knowing are mystical, moral, and poetic.
0:31.3	Mystical knowledge remains in the soul, tending towards silence, as great 20th century philosopher Jacques Maritan once said. But moral
0:40.8	knowledge expresses itself in a life and poetic knowledge in a work. Things that others can reach
0:47.6	out and touch and through them find their way back to the mysterious sources of that knowledge,
0:53.2	and then back out again to the created world
0:55.4	and its creator. Goodness and beauty, the gifts of artists and saints, offer us in a special
1:02.9	way an invitation to God himself. My own particular Christian tradition is that of the Roman Catholic
1:10.1	Church, which is probably good news to at least one of you, the one whose name is shameless papist.
1:18.4	Saw that on my video feed.
1:22.0	And the Catholic Church has had some remarkable things to say about the rule of the artist.
1:27.1	Let me read now a beautiful
1:28.6	paragraph on artistic creativity from the 1992 Catholic Catechism. It's a paragraph that comes
1:35.2	at the end of the Catechism's discussion of the Eighth Commandment prohibiting lying. Art for
1:40.7	the Christian is inseparable from truth. Here's the passage.
1:45.0	Created in the image of God, man also expresses the truth of his relationship with God, the Creator, by the beauty of his artistic works.
1:56.0	Indeed, art is a distinctively human form of expression beyond the search for the necessities of life, which is common to all living creatures.
2:07.2	Art is a freely given superabundance of the human beings' inner riches.
2:13.1	To the extent that it is inspired by truth and love of beings.
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