Paul writes – ABC Radio in Australia has had some fascinating interviews over the last little while. Here’s three I’ve enjoyed:
Can music convey beliefs even when it is purely instrumental? Jeremy Begbie thinks it can, and as a musician and a theologian he teaches students at Wolfson College, Cambridge and Duke University in the US how to understand the parallels between complex musical harmonies and equally complex theological ideas such as the Trinity. Professor Begbie speaks to Rachael Kohn on the occasion of a series of lectures, Music, Modernity and God, for New College at the University of New South Wales.
Podcast and transcript here.
(One of my favourite artists) Bill Viola and his spiritual art
Few video artists can boast a hallowed placed in the world's churches and cathedrals, but Bill Viola's spiritual vision has been widely recognised by both the artistic as well as the religious establishment. In a rare and profoundly spiritual conversation, Bill Viola talks to Rachael Kohn at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image for the Melbourne Festival of the Arts.
Podcast and transcript here.
Stephen Batchelor - The Secular Dharma
Buddhist practitioners in the West will often say that Buddhism is not a religion as such. But author and Buddhist scholar Stephen Batchelor believes that even the "-ism" of Buddhism represents a departure from the teachings of the Buddha himself. So what role do philosophy, belief and the Big Questions have in the practices of compassion, meditation and awareness?
Podcast here.
Also, two great articles from the ABC Religion and Ethics Website
Just how realistic is just war? By Stanley Hauerwas.
Eastern philosophy and Western indulgence By Justine Toh.
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