Kresta in the Afternoon – November 29, 2019 – Hour 1
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+ What is Beauty and Why do we Need it?
- Description: What is beauty? Is it just a matter of opinion or in the eye of the beholder? How can the virtues help us to better perceive and enjoy beauty? We'll talk with John-Mark Miravalle.
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John-Mark Miravalle
John-Mark L. Miravalle is professor of Systematic and Moral theology at Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Maryland. He's the author of three books, including Beauty: What it Is and Why it Matters. He has debated noted atheists on topics such as God's existence, same-sex marriage, and theistic morality. He and his wife Jessica have five children.
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Beauty: What It is and Why It Matters
We are meant for beauty, and beauty is meant for us. What we moderns have forgotten, the ancients knew well: true beauty heals the soul, draws us to God, and yields lasting happiness. Rich with the wisdom of Plato, Augustine, Aquinas, and St. John Paul II, these pages unpack perennial truths about beauty and rivet them into your soul, opening the eyes of your understanding to the beauty all around us. Offering an abundance of accessible examples, author John Mark Miravalle demonstrates that beauty is neither in the eye of the beholder, nor for the cultivated, the dreamer, or the hopeless romantic alone. On the contrary, the ability to understand, recognize, and delight in beauty readies all souls for heaven and makes it easier for us to get there. From these pages, you'll learn:
- Why beauty is not just a matter of opinion.
- The virtues we need to perceive beauty and to enjoy it.
- How to determine whether an artwork is truly beautiful.
- The respective roles of reason and emotion in appreciating beauty.
- How the beauty of nature testifies to God's existence . . . while rejection of God obscures nature's beauty.
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+ Understanding the Vatican-China Deal One Year Later (2 segments)
- Description: It has been more than a year since the Sino-Vatican agreement signed on September 22, 2018, and the situation of China’s Catholics continues to attract media attention. The present Sinicization campaign has grown more determined since Xi Jinping’s rise to power in 2012, and the government control of Catholicism has reached its highest level since the death of Mao in 1976. We'll talk more with Anthony Clark
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Dr. Anthony Clark
Anthony Clark is Professor of History at Whitworth University and the author of several books, including Catholicism and Buddhism: The Contrasting Lives and Teachings of Jesus and Buddha.
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A Place Of Peace – November 14, 2020