Gabriel Marcel: Session 4

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This is the fourth session that focuses on the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel. In the tenor of the ancient practice of Lectio Divina, James Finley reads passages from Kenneth T. Gallagher's The Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel, reflects on the qualitative essence of the spirit of this text, and finishes with a meditative practice. Resources: Turning to the Mystics is a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more about James Finley, visit his faculty profile here. The transcript for this episode can be found here. The book we will be using this season can be found here. Connect with us: Have a question you'd like Jim or Kirsten to answer about this season? Email us: [email protected] Send us a voicemail: cac.org/voicemail We'll be accepting questions for our Listener Questions episode until May 13th, 2025. This podcast is made possible, thanks to the generosity of our donors. If you would love to support the ongoing work of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the continued work of our podcasts, you can donate at https://cac.org/support-cac/podcasts/ Thank you!

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation.
0:04.3	To learn more, visit cac.org.
0:09.8	Greetings. I'm Jim Finley.
0:13.2	Welcome to Turning to the Mystics.
0:31.0	Greetings, everyone, and welcome to our time together, turning for trustworthy guidance to Gabriel Marcel's teachings on love.
0:34.6	As with our prior two sessions on fidelity and and then on Hope, we're still in passages in Marcel
0:43.3	and commentary found in chapter 5 of Kenneth Gallagher's book, The Philosophy of Gabriel
0:51.1	Marcel.
0:52.3	And now we're at Roman numeral 3, page 86, to the end of the chapter.
0:58.2	And so Marcel begins.
1:01.7	In a very kind of down-to-earth kind of experiential way about love.
1:07.8	Gallagher says on Marcel, Marcel approaches his understanding of love as any experience which opens us to another can be called love.
1:19.9	Until in the end, we may not only say that communion is founded on love, but that communion is love.
1:26.7	So we'll begin there.
1:28.0	That when we speak of love, it's in the experience that opens us to another.
1:32.8	It's love that delivers us from the notion that we're a separate, isolated unto ourself,
1:39.0	person as being adequate for understanding the mystery of who we are.
1:44.0	But somehow the mystery of who we are includes an openness, in love, towards another.
1:51.8	And also I would say this too, is we move toward the other, and that we move toward the other
1:57.4	as lovable. And we move toward the other as having a value
2:03.6	in their very presence that we recognize.
2:06.6	And therefore, we seek to merge and be one with that value
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