The Role of Poetry in the Christian Life | Dr. Patrick Callahan

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🗓️ 24 May 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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This lecture was given on April 5, 2022 at Cairn University. The handout for this lecture can be found here: https://tinyurl.com/2p8psrnj. For more information on upcoming events, please visit our website at www.thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Patrick Callahan is director of the Newman Institute for Catholic Thought & Culture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln as well as Assistant Professor of English & Humanities at St. Gregory the Great Seminary. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Dallas and his graduate work at Fordham University in Classical Philology. While his doctoral work focused on ancient Greek commentaries to the lyric poet Pindar, his recent work focuses on early Jesuit Latin texts.

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0:38.5	tamistic institute.org. Our topic this evening is the role of poetry in the Christian life.
0:49.2	And to make sure that you're kind of tracking everything that's going on, I'm going to do the
0:53.0	very undergraduate thing of giving you my thesis, right?
0:56.0	So what is our thesis here, right?
0:58.0	What are we tracking? What's going on?
1:00.0	My thesis is twofold.
1:02.0	First, poetry as measured word
1:06.0	is the mode of speech most like Christ,
1:09.0	the eternal logos. Second, because of the mimetic nature of the human person,
1:17.3	poetry plays a central role both historically in the work of salvation and personally in the
1:23.7	conformity of the human person to Christ.
1:30.6	So that's a lot, right?
1:32.7	There's two big divisions there.
1:37.6	And before I even take you into the first one, we're going to have a bit of a digression, right? Because I'm not sure talking to some of you on the way, it seems everyone here wonderfully, it's a wonderful idea,
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