Pilgrims in the Wasteland with Dr. Arthur Just

03/02/2023 1h 2min
Pilgrims in the Wasteland with Dr. Arthur Just

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April is the cruellest month, breeding. Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing. Memory and desire, stirring. Dull roots with spring rain. (The Wasteland, T.S. Eliot) The Ringside Preachers and Dr. Arthur Just explore the poetry of T.S. Eliot and his expression of the Christian Faith at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne.   Topics: T.S. Eliot leading up to his Christian Conversion The Philosophy of Modern and Postmodern Christianity How does Eliot's poetry speak to Christians today? Repentance and Culture   Guest: Dr. Arthur Just Professor of Exegetical Theology and Assistant Faculty Marshal at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne.    Thank you:  Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne 1517.org  Grace Lutheran Ventura St. James Lutheran, Chicago   Music: Joel A. Hess (Willing Virginia) - "Birthdays, Roses, and Balloons " Dead Horse One - I love my man   Other stuff: Eliot and His Age, Russell Kirk The Golden Bough, Sir James George Frazer Literary Converts, Joseph Pearce The Confessions of X, Suzanne Wolfe James K A Smith Catherine Pickstock Graham Ward Liturgy in the Postmodern World, Keith Pecklers  The Idea of a Christian Society, T.S. Eliot Notes Towards a Definition of Culture, T.S. Eliot The Road, Cormac McCarthy The Book of Eli (movie) The Four Quartets, T.S. Eliot Murder in the Cathedral, T.S. Eliot