
#5 - The Medieval v. Modern View of Nature
Tom and James discuss contrasting views of nature from premodern paganism, ancient Israel, early and medieval Christianity, and modernity. Why you need to pray for and with Creation to lay waste to the progeny of Francis Bacon and the technocratic paradigm.
Links:
God’s Philosophers | James Hannam (2009)
“The Papacy Against the False Gospel of Progress” | Pater Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist. (2013)
Laudato Si’ | Pope Francis (2015)
“A Magnificent, a Wonderful Encyclical” | Pater Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist. (2015)
The Rape of Man and Nature | Philip Sherrard (2015)
“Towards a Green Thomism” | The Distributist Review Archive (2016, republished)
Why Liberalism Failed | Patrick Deneen (2018)
Querida Amazonia | Pope Francis (2020)
Spiritual Practices for the Embertides:
Winter (Advent) Embertide | Tradistae
Spring (Lent) Embertide | Tradistae
Traditions around Ember Days | Fish Eaters