Oh wow. Didn't realize you started this series back up. Two new videos to watch! Thanks for the great work, doc.

@GregoryBSadler

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We started it up in Spring. Then I had Covid which cancelled the May session

@dantheman6008

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@@GregoryBSadler hope you were able to recover well enough. That's about the time I had it too. Kicked my ass.

@GregoryBSadler

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@@dantheman6008 I've got some long-term effects, but otherwise am al right.

You weren't kidding Dr. Sadler. I tried finding it used on some pretty reliable book finder websites and still couldn't find it for under seventy bucks. I'll have to save up for it! I'm looking forward to it.

@GregoryBSadler

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You mean my book?

@benfelts8787

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@@GregoryBSadler yeah, I even saw it going for over a hundred.

I'm very interested in Blondel's work, currently reading L'Action and am dying for someone to translate his work on thought and being! Reading up on Blanchette's work and making my way to your work after. Would be so awesome if you translated! 😊

@GregoryBSadler

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That’s a lot of work, which unfortunately I don’t have the time to give to

Fantastic lecture! I'll be listening to this on my morning commute. Thanks Dr. Sadler.

@GregoryBSadler

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You're very welcome

Hey I've seen you in the Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour space and I just heard you say you wrote a dissertation on Blondel!? I was reading a dissertation on New Testament Scholarship on Merkava and Apophatic Theology like Pseudo-Dionysius and followed footnotes to Blondel. This is astonishing that you're so familiar with him!! Catholic Hegel? I must learn more

@GregoryBSadler

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I did indeed. I've also translated some of his works in my book on the 1930s Christian philosophy debates

Thanks Prof Sadler, Do you have any thoughts on what the popular meta-narrative about the Christian philosophy of the last few centuries might be now if intellectuals had maintained their interest in it more broadly? I think philosophy still has a lot of cultural cache for people working in the arts and humanities but that the folk philosophical meta-narrative has become that Christianity became untangled from philosophy after Kierkegaard and yet also that existentialism is somehow a purely enlightenment philosophy which superseded it. I must admit I myself also find it much easier to trace the genealogy of ideas through secular modern philosophers than through spiritual modern philosophers. I can see the German idealists all built on Kant and that Kant was strongly influenced by pietism and Swedenborg, but I don't really see many other arcs in it all, more generally. I also can't help but feel that Blondel pre-empted the best answer to the Christian philosophy debates, and that the debates themselves pre-empted both the conclusions to the later debates over the correct interpretation of de Lubac's work and even the content of the work of people like Niebuhr and Tillich, but I have no idea whether that really tracks. Strange question, maybe. Food for thought.

@GregoryBSadler

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I don’t think there is any one metanarrative out there

What do you think of the school of Radical Orthodoxy? As a Reformed Christian, I’m studying Milbank. I’m convinced of your approach. I’m seeing how Milbank is the Anglican version of Blondel for the 21s century, in some sense.

@GregoryBSadler

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I first encountered them in the late 1990s. I wasn't impressed. Blond and Milbank managed to misread Blondel. Ward and Picsktock could be interesting at points, but frankly I quit paying attention to all of them by 2010 or so