November 4, 2021
Etienne Gilson’s Transformation of the City of God
It follows the philosopher’s quest for a universal human society as it gradually degenerates from the heavenly city of Augustine to the secular humanist globalism of our time. It began with well-meaning medieval thinkers who had an overconfidence in the ability of natural reason to unite the whole world in the Catholic faith, but this gradually led to an overconfidence in the irreducible mysteries of Christianity and in Jesus Christ. I started to turn my back on that person.
Gilson wrote in 1952, when the European Union was beginning to emerge, and also provided a critical assessment of various attempts to define Europe.
Peter Redpath, co-founder of the International Etienne Gilson Society, joins the podcast to discuss this newly translated work.
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Transformation of the City of God
https://www.cuapress.org/9780813233253/the-metamorphoses-of-the-city-of-god/
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