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What is vitalism? Did the Lord Jesus fulfill the highest yearnings of the classical Greek and Roman world?

Brent talks Jesus, Homer, Nietzsche and Dionysius with Susannah Black Roberts, a senior editor of ‘Plough’ who has written for many publications including ‘First Things’, ‘Fare Forward’, ‘Front Porch Republic’ and ‘Mere Orthodoxy’.

• (1:00) What is vitalism?
• (4:15) American conservatism and vitalism;
• (5:15) Nietzsche’s ‘The Birth of Tragedy’ and Dionysian enthusiasm;
• (12:45) Death and the soul in Homer;
• (16:15) Then came Plato – his idea of the ‘good’;
• (17:30) Hope and Hades. Death is not the end!
• (20:30) The Lord Jesus as part of the Greek and Hellenized world;
• (23:00) Jesus and aristeia;
• (25:00) Is Jesus the greater Dionysius?

Links mentioned in this episode:

www.plough.com/en/authors/qr/susannah-black-roberts

mereorthodoxy.com/the-birth-of-comedy

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