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The Revelation of Faith: Hebrew and Medieval Classics
Reading the World Classics, Season 5—from the Bible to The Canterbury Tales
Completed · 87 episodes
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From the Hebrews to the Middle Ages: Does Obedience to God Diminish Humanity? 1. Was Humanity Innocent Before the Fall? 2. Personal Sin and Responsibility 3. Job: A Happy Man Suddenly Afflicted 4. The Wisdom of Defiance: Job's Three-Thousand-Year-Old Question Bonus | How Do We Read the Bible Within a Humanist Tradition? 5. Why Does God Not Eliminate Evil? 6. Evil as a Problem of Human Nature and Institutions 7. The Wisdom of Psalms and Why Good People Suffer 8. What Kind of Wisdom Is Acceptance of Fate? 9. Song of Songs: Can Passionate Love Poetry Be Sacred Scripture? 10. Prophets Who Connect God and Humanity 11. What Kind of Intellectual Is a Prophet? 12. Jonah the Runaway Prophet: Was He Right to Resist God? 13. How to Read the New Testament: An Archaeology of Knowledge 14. The Coming of Jesus: How Was the New Testament Born? 15. Gospel in the Wilderness: Contents and Divisions of the New Testament 16. The Messianic Secret 17. Paul the Roman: Christianity's Most Controversial Figure 18. The Four Gospels: Four Sides of One Palace 19. Why Did Christianity Appeal to Rome's Poor? 20. Women's Participation in Early Christianity 21. Battlefield of Doctrine: “Holy Women” and “Holy Prostitutes” 22. What Is the World After Death? Christianity and the Disadvantaged 23. What Did Christianity Possess That Classical Philosophy Did Not? Christian Humanism 24. From Religion of the Heart to Religion of Ritual | Romanizing Christianity 25. From Incomplete to Exemplary: How Christianity Remade the Image of Children 26. God and Caesar: Patriotism in the Bible 27. From Bible to Constitution: Political Common Sense in Scripture 28. Does Morality Need Religion to Awaken It? 29. Can Government Remove Evil from Human Nature? 30. Why Did a Morally Perfect God Replace the Greek Gods? 31. How Did Sex Become a “Sin”? 32. How Did Western Views of Sex Change from the Middle Ages to the Reformation? 33. From Tolerance to Contempt: Christian Views of Prostitution 34. Beggars Are Not Contemptible, but the Righteous Do Not Beg 35. A Game of Power: Serving God Before Serving the People 36. Christianity on War and Peace: From Nonresistance to Just War 37. How Should We Understand “Contradictions” in the Bible? 38. What Can Inconsistencies in Sacred Texts Teach Us? 39. Is God Dead—or Silent? 40. How Do We Distinguish Good and Evil in a Godless World? 41. Overview: Philosophy and Religion from Greece and Rome to the Middle Ages 42. Blaming Christianity for Rome's Fall: Augustine Responds | City of God 1 43. Prophetic Politics Then and Now: The Danger of Binary Political Myths | City of God 2 44. Can a Gang of Criminals Have Just Laws? | Augustine's City of God 3 45. Remaking a Roman Comedy Through Medieval Chastity | Hrotsvitha's Abraham 1 46. Female Chastity in Body and Soul | Hrotsvitha's Abraham 2 47. How Did She Create an Exception in a Middle Ages Hostile to Theater? | Hrotsvitha's Abraham 3 48. Female Mysticism and “Marriage to Christ” | Hildegard's Book of the Rewards of Life 1 49. Distinctive Female Visions of the Middle Ages | Hildegard's Book of the Rewards of Life 2 50. What Kind of “Love” Did the Middle Ages Invent? | Hildegard's Book of the Rewards of Life 3 51. Empty Infatuation and Compelled Visions | Hildegard's Book of the Rewards of Life 4 52. No Narrative Without Retelling: A Distorting Mirror of Humanity | One Thousand and One Nights 1 53. Selling Fiction: Magicians and Storytellers | One Thousand and One Nights 2 54. Adult Tales of Love and Desire | One Thousand and One Nights 3 55. Wondrous Lives and Absurd Destinies | One Thousand and One Nights 4 56. Between Faith and Philosophy | Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed 1 57. Hidden Truth Beneath the Bible's Literal Meaning | Guide for the Perplexed 2 58. Allegorical Interpretation: Reason Confronts Faith | Guide for the Perplexed 3 59. Where Hermeneutics Comes From and Where It Goes | Guide for the Perplexed 4 60. Philosophy Between the Lines: Esoteric Political Writing | Guide for the Perplexed 5 61. Tradition and Transformation: A Humanism of Faith | Aquinas, Selected Political Writings 1 62. Sacred Shadows: Unjust Laws and Tyrants | Aquinas, Selected Political Writings 2 63. How Should We View Aquinas Today? | Selected Political Writings 3 64. Repressed Female Desire and Tragedy | Marie de France's Lais 1 65. Deception and Betrayal in Situational Ethics | Marie de France's Lais 2 66. From Warrior to Lover: The Evolution of Chivalry | Marie de France's Lais 3 67. Secular Satire in Animal Fable | The Romance of Reynard 1 68. Popular Carnival: Animal Fable and Medieval Urban Culture | The Romance of Reynard 2 69. Animal Fables Are Never Only About Animals | The Romance of Reynard 3 70. Why Was Allegorical Literature Popular in the Middle Ages? | The Romance of the Rose 1 71. A Portrait of Romantic Love | The Romance of the Rose 2 72. What Was Love Like in Medieval Literature? | The Romance of the Rose 3 73. How Can Slanders Against Women Be Refuted? | Christine de Pizan's City of Ladies 1 74. Does Friendship Have a Gender? | City of Ladies 2 75. How Do Montaigne and Liu Bei Differ on Brotherhood? | City of Ladies 3 76. What Routes Did Marco Polo Travel? | The Travels of Marco Polo 1 77. How Difficult Was Medieval Travel? | The Travels of Marco Polo 2 78. How Should We Judge Truth and Fiction in Travel Writing? | The Travels of Marco Polo 3 79. Literature and Society on the Pilgrimage Road | Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 1 80. Can Money Really Bring Salvation? | The Canterbury Tales 2 81. Eternal Life and Sudden Death: The Body and Morality of Death | The Canterbury Tales 3 82. Why Could the Church Not Eradicate Corruption Born of Power? | The Canterbury Tales 4 83. Epilogue: The Middle Ages Were Not Entirely Dark Farewell: May Reading the Humanist Classics Rise to New Heights Leung Man-tao: Reading Classics Is Not Only About Caring for Ourselves