Canadian Philosophy and Theology professor and former Catholic Monk Dr. Sean J. McGrath examines how to practice contemplative Christianity in the secular age. Subscribe on Substack. https://centerofthecross.substack.com/
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Seeds of Secular Christianity | Secular Christ Season 3 (Trailer)
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In our third season of Secular Christ with Sean J. McGrath we go searching for the seeds of Secular Christianity. The series will go live in early 2024.Oleh Center of the Cross
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Q&A with Sean McGrath & Summary of season 2
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Live Q&A and summary of season 2 of Secular Christ. Recorded 13th of November 2022.Oleh Center of the Cross
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Announcement: Q&A & Live discussion with Sean McGrath
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We would like to invite you to an online meetup and Q&A with Sean J. McGrath where we will wrap up the second season of Secular Christ. We will be meeting on Zoon on Sunday the 13th of November at 5:00 PM CET. We will start with a short lecture by McGrath and a summary of the second season. We then invite you all to converse, ask your questions and…
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S2E5 The razor's edge of contemplative Christianity
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What's the point of a Christian community? Why is community important for a contemporary contemplative Christian? In the final episode of the second season of Secular Christ, Sean McGrath turns to the question of community. We discuss its importance in the contemplative tradition and its absence within psychoanalysis and Analytical Psychology. We d…
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S2E4 A letter to a young contemplative
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Sean McGrath received an email from a young person who has been listening to Secular Christ asking: How can I keep growing spiritually through the Christ image, any words of wisdom that has helped you along your path of living the contemplative life? Here's Sean's reply.Oleh Center of the Cross
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S2E3 The self that cannot help itself
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In the third episode, McGrath takes on the self-help industry and how its ideological spokespersons such as Jordan B. Peterson misses the point of grace and self-transformation through self-surrendering. He discusses how to understand the Lord's Prayer (previously discussed with Donald Carveth) and how contemplative Christianity offers a different …
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S2E2 Perverse Christianity and its remedy
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In this episode, McGrath explores the symbolic structures that underlie our search for truth and meaning. He contrasts the "going east" with a return to the "western symbolic" in order to connect with our spiritual and religious mother tongue. He examines how 2000 years of Christianity is a part of the problem and is accelerating a perversion as we…
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S2E1 Secular Christ season 2 | A sermon for the New age
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In the second season of Secular Christ, Dr. Sean J. McGrath continues his conversation with Jungian Analyst Jakob Lusensky about the contemplative life in a Secular Age. In this episode McGrath introduces the concept of "Christ nature" and contrasts it with Buddha Nature before he turns to Paul and the Colossians and the Gospel of John to ground it…
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E8 Turn your eyes away | Antichrist & Climate change
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In this last episode of this season, Sean McGrath continues his conversation with Jungian Analyst Jakob Lusensky, in seeking the secular Christ. A conversation that leads back to the question of antichrist and how social media and consumerism feed a life of the imaginary at the cost of the real. McGrath discusses climate change, 'Friday's for futur…
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E7 The Christ virus | A return to Secular Christ
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"What we're talking about in the Christ is something that actually doesn't naturally belong in this world. It is experienced as infection in a certain way, but it's the infection that brings life and hope and new forms of community." In this episode, Sean McGrath returns to some of the questions we initially asked in this podcast. In what way is Ch…
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E6 How to practice contemplative Christianity? (No rules for life)
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How to practice contemplative Christianity? In this episode of Secular Christ, McGrath makes it clear that there are no (Jordan B Peterson) rules for life needed, but what's necessary is to carve out a space in our everyday life for contemplation, meditation, and prayer. He discusses further the importance of coming to terms with our own psychologi…
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E5 Richard Rohr and the rediscovery of contemplative Christianity
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In the fifth episode of Secular Christ, Philosophy and Theology professor, Sean J McGrath continues his seeking for Christ in the Secular Age. His starting point this time is the work of the American Franciscan priest and writer Richard Rohr, who through his many books and public lectures has led to a rediscovery of the cosmic christ and contemplat…
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E4 The gnostic Slavoj Žižek | A philosophy of human poverty
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“Why has somebody like Slavoj Žižek with his Lacanian atheism and cynicism a better purchase on the essence of Pauline Christianity? It’s because there is a tragic ground to Christianity. Tragedy and hopelessness is the prolegomena, it’s the port of entry into Christianity.” In this episode of the Secular Christ, Philosophy and Theology professor, …
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E3 Christ is not an archetype | A critique of Jordan B Peterson
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In this episode Philosophy and Theology professor, Sean J McGrath offers a critique of the phenomenon Jordan B Peterson’s archetypal take on Christianity. McGrath sees his fellow Canadian as a representative of the philosophy of human potentiality which he contrasts with a philosophy of human poverty. McGrath discusses these themes together with Be…
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In the second episode of Secular Christ Sean J McGrath helps us to make a necessary distinction between naive versus mature secularism. He follows Charles Taylor's description of what happens to religion in the secular age and how religious belief has turned into a consumer product. McGrath goes on to describe how Christianity in instances has beco…
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E1 Who is Christ in today's secular world?
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In our first episode, Philosophy and Theology professor and former Catholic monk Sean J McGrath lays the foundation for our search for Christ in the secular world. Questions we will address in this podcast: * What’s the value of individuation and Christian faith in a socio-political order which is apparently falling apart? * How are we to understan…
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A trailer to the podcast Secular Christ with Sean J McGrath Send in a voice message with your questions or thoughts: https://anchor.fm/secular-christ/messageOleh Center of the Cross
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