Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Literature and philosophy discussions • Thematic focus on love and meaning • Influential novels and philosophical texts • Explorations of classical and modern works • Guest experts in philosophy and literature
The podcast "Sacred and Profane Love" explores the interplay between literature, philosophy, and theology, offering rich discussions that delve into how these works shape ideas about love, happiness, and meaning in human life. Hosted by Jennifer A. Frey, the podcast features in-depth conversations with philosophers, theologians, literary critics, poets, and writers, focusing on both classic and contemporary literary masterpieces. The podcast covers a wide array of themes, from tragedy and sin to virtue ethics and cultural critique.
Recurring topics include discussions of significant literary figures, such as St. Augustine, James Baldwin, Edgar Allan Poe, and T.S. Eliot. These conversations often explore the moral and philosophical dimensions of their works, examining the deeper implications of topics like original sin, virtue, and existential anguish. The podcast also frequently addresses the relevance of classic texts in modern contexts, highlighting how ancient wisdom can shed light on contemporary issues.
Another common thread is the exploration of the transformative power of literature and the humanities, particularly concerning education and personal growth. The discussions often touch on the potential of reading great books to impact intellectual and moral development. The podcast also features episodes on the intersection of literature with other art forms, such as music and theater, examining how these mediums contribute to the exploration of vital human questions.
Overall, "Sacred and Profane Love" provides a thoughtful platform for examining how diverse works of literature and philosophy can inform and enrich our understanding of complex human experiences. Through its scholarly yet accessible approach, the podcast invites listeners to engage deeply with texts that have shaped cultural and intellectual thought.
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Episodes:
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Episode 71: Dana Gioia on the Tragic Thought of Seneca
2024-Jun-21
56 minutes
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Episode 70: The Poetry of John Donne w/ Lars Engle
2024-Jun-07
63 minutes
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Episode 69: Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" w/ Aaron Gwyn
2024-May-24
57 minutes
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Episode 68: The Poetry of Jonathan Swift with Steve Karian
2024-May-03
56 minutes
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Episode 67: Poetry, Art, and Truth with Carl Phillips
2024-Apr-12
44 minutes
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Episode 66: Ovid's "The Art of Love" with Julia Hejduk
2024-Mar-22
47 minutes
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Episode 65: Boris Dralyuk on Nabokov’s Pnin
2024-Mar-01
47 minutes
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Episode 64: Patrick Deneen on DeLillo's White Noise
2024-Feb-16
59 minutes
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The Podcast Returns!
2024-Feb-16
2 minutes
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Episode 29: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice with Agnes Mueller
2024-Feb-15
74 minutes
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Re-run: Episode 43 - The Closing of the American Mind with Brad Carson
2023-Sep-01
66 minutes
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Re-run: Episode 50 - "Are the Humanities in Crisis" with Zena Hitz and Chad Wellmon
2023-Aug-25
79 minutes
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Re-run: Episode 45 - Roosevelt Montás on Great Books and Intellectual Transformation
2023-Aug-18
75 minutes
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Re-run: Episode 41 - James Baldwin is bringing the fire with Dr. Cornel West
2023-Aug-11
67 minutes
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Re-run: Episode 1 - The Short Stories of Flannery O’Connor with Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.
2023-Aug-04
52 minutes
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Re-run: Episode 55 - Christopher Snyder on Tolkien and Virtue Ethics
2023-Jul-28
69 minutes
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Re-run: Episode 56 - Dana Gioia on Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil
2023-Jul-21
72 minutes
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Re-run: Episode 48 - Crime And Punishment With Thomas Hibbs
2023-Jul-14
75 minutes
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Re-run: Episode 51 - A Canticle For Leibowitz With Christopher Frey
2023-Jul-08
96 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Summer Update
2023-Jul-07
1 minute
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Episode 63: St. Augustine's Confessions with Russell Hittinger, Part III
2023-Jun-14
73 minutes
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Episode 62: St. Augustine's Confessions with Russell Hittinger, Part II
2023-Apr-19
87 minutes
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Episode 61: St. Augustine's Confessions with Russell Hittinger, Part I
2023-Mar-17
100 minutes
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Episode 60: Randy Boyagoda on Original Prin and Dante's Indiana
2023-Feb-24
55 minutes
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Episode 59: TS Eliot with Anthony Domestico
2023-Jan-16
97 minutes
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Episode 58: Justin E.H. Smith on Edgar Allan Poe
2022-Dec-30
91 minutes
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Episode 57: JM Coetzee on Philosophy, Fiction, and the Academy
2022-Dec-16
84 minutes
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Episode 56: Dana Gioia on Charles Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil
2022-Dec-02
72 minutes
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Episode 55: Christopher Snyder on Tolkien and Virtue Ethics
2022-Nov-01
69 minutes
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Episode 54: Karen Swallow Prior on The Scarlet Letter
2022-Oct-14
75 minutes
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Episode 53: Paul Mariani on Robert Lowell
2022-Sep-30
59 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 52: The Hillbilly Thomists
2022-Sep-16
52 minutes
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Episode 51: A Canticle for Leibowitz with Christopher Frey
2022-Jul-11
96 minutes
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Episode 50: "Are the Humanities in Crisis" with Zena Hitz and Chad Wellmon
2022-Jul-01
79 minutes
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Episode 49: Christopher Beha on Lucky Per
2022-May-20
101 minutes
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Episode 48: Crime and Punishment with Thomas Hibbs
2022-Apr-27
75 minutes
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Episode 47: Justin E.H. Smith on Suttree
2022-Mar-18
80 minutes
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Episode 46: Katy Carl
2022-Feb-04
63 minutes
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Episode 45: Roosevelt Montas on Great Books and Intellectual Transformation
2022-Jan-14
75 minutes
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Episode 44: The Tragic Abyss with Dr. Kevin Kambo
2021-Dec-31
85 minutes
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Episode 43: The Closing of the American Mind with Brad Carson
2021-Dec-07
66 minutes
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Episode 42: Graham Greene's The Heart of the Matter
2021-Nov-05
67 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 41: James Baldwin is Bringing the Fire with Dr. Cornel West
2021-Oct-21
67 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 40: The Tragic Vision of Eugene O'Neill
2021-Oct-05
89 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 39: Gabriel Marcel's Thirst
2021-Sep-20
60 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 38: The Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
2021-Aug-29
55 minutes
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Bonus Episode: Matthew Mehan on Children's Literature
2021-Aug-16
40 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 37: Boethius and John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces
2021-Aug-02
57 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 36: The Realist Poetry of Czeslaw Milosz
2021-Jun-25
68 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 35: Morten Hoi Jensen on Jens Peter Jacobsen
2021-Jun-01
82 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 34: Dante's Paradiso
2021-May-17
102 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 33: Dante's Purgatorio
2021-Apr-12
84 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 32: The Therapeutic Fiction of David Foster Wallace
2021-Mar-16
83 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 31: The Hellish Desires of Dante's Inferno
2021-Mar-01
93 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 30: The Seducer, Self-Creation and The Aesthete
2021-Feb-09
85 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 29: Thomas Mann's Death in Venice with Agnes Mueller
2020-Dec-31
74 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 28: Agnes Callard on Antigone
2020-Dec-08
76 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 27: Karen Swallow Prior on Reading Joseph Conrad Well
2020-Nov-20
62 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 26: St. Augustine and the Index of Self-Destructive Acts
2020-Nov-05
62 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 25: On Solitude with Rilke and Merton
2020-Oct-15
72 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 24: On Reading The Plague in a Plague
2020-Jun-08
82 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 23: Lost in Thought with Zena Hitz
2020-May-07
98 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 22: Huxley on Love and Longing in the Dystopia
2020-Apr-20
102 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 21: Joseph Conrad's Lord Jim
2020-Apr-04
79 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 20: Scruton's Wagner: Sex, Death, and the Sacred
2020-Feb-27
70 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 19: Love and Lust in Lolita
2020-Jan-17
73 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 18: Carrying the Flame
2019-Nov-20
55 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 17: The Death of a Whisky Priest
2019-Oct-10
54 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 16: King Lear's Vision
2019-Sep-20
55 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 15: Goethe's Faust
2019-May-24
60 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Episode 14: Walker Percy on Being Lost in the Cosmos
2019-May-17
55 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 1: Flannery O'Connor on Redemptive Love
2019-Apr-22
52 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 2: Doestoevsky and Transfiguring Love
2019-Apr-22
47 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 3: Walt Whitman on Civic Hope
2019-Apr-22
44 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 4: Madame Bovary
2019-Apr-22
55 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 5: Brewer on the Symposium
2019-Apr-22
42 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 13: Jane Austen on the Virtues of Social Life
2019-Apr-22
50 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 12: Meaning, Murder, and Divine Madness
2019-Apr-22
49 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 11: The Contemplative Realism of Marilynne Robinson
2019-Apr-22
52 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 10: A Twitch Upon The Thread
2019-Apr-22
53 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love, Episode 9: Podcast Revelations Of Love In John
2019-Apr-21
56 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 8: “Sophocles and Tragic Love"
2019-Apr-21
45 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 7: “Boasts of Love in Troilus and Criseyde”
2019-Apr-21
57 minutes
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Sacred and Profane Love Episode 6: Elena Ferrante on Friendship and the Intellectual Life
2019-Apr-21
53 minutes
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