The Beautiful and the Sublime: How to Make Art that Leads to God | Prof. Patrick Callahan

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This lecture was given on November 19th, 2024, at East Carolina University.

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About the Speaker:

Patrick Callahan is director of the Newman Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture as well as Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at St. Gregory the Great Seminary. There he directs and teaches in a Great Books Catholic program for students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and other regional colleges. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Dallas and his graduate work at Fordham University in Classics. He lives in Lincoln, NE with his wife and 5 children.

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1:13.7	So just to read the room, how many of you have read or have heard of Joseph Peeper?
1:19.9	Okay, some people.
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1:23.3	And then I assume this is you've read Leisure the Basis of Culture.
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1:40.3	All right, so that aside, right?
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