Logos Rising: Part Two with Patrick Coffin

This rounds out a two-part series on the profound implications and global scope of Jones’ 800+ page Logos Rising: The History of Ultimate Reality. In the first episode, we covered from creation up to the Incarnation of the Logos Himself, Jesus Christ.

In Part Two, we hit the high spots from the early Church and St. Paul, up to the “death and burial’ of Thomism (the study and application of St. Thomas Aquinas to philosophical errors and other problems) in America at Notre Dame University.

In this episode you will learn

• Why St. Paul’s speech at the Areopagus in Acts 17 failed compared to his efforts in Corinth

• How the Logos was present, if simultaneously marred, in the rise of Islam

• Vis a vis the Jews, how does Muslim rejection of Logos manifest itself

• The discovery of time by St. Augustine in the fourth century

• Why the Catholic Church strongly endorses the classical realism of Thomas Aquinas

• How Hegel’s thesis/antithesis/synthesis schema is a secular reaching out for both the Trinity and divine providence in history 

• The difference between science and Science, Inc and why the latter is alleged to be superior to religion in grasping ultimate reality

• Why the future and well-being of the West depends upon its recovery of Logos

Resources mentioned in this episode

• Logos Rising: The History of Ultimate Reality by E. Michael Jones

• City of God by St. Augustine of Hippo

• The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit: And Its Impact on World History by E. Michael Jones

• Barren Metal: A History of Capitalism as the Conflict between Labor and Usury by E. Michael Jones

What the Bleep Happened to Architecture

Socrates said that the order of the city was the order of the soul writ large. That observation is all the more true today—and not a compliment to the modern soul or the modern city. Most people simply don’t advert to the quiet influence the surrounding architecture has on their psyche: the shape and scale of buildings, the order and proportion (or lack thereof). The father of modern Bauhaus architecture is the German Walter Gropius, a promiscuous cad who married a promiscuous shrew named Anna Mahler, wife of composer Gustav Mahler. Dr. E. Michael Jones, editor of Culture Wars magazine says that Gropius painted into his architectural vision a radically new kind of building and with it, a revolution in urban planning.

In this episode you will learn:

• The subtle (?) ways in which the architecture that surrounds us tells us who we are and what our life’s priorities ought to be

• How Gropius’s rationalization of his own degeneracy got transmuted into buildings built purely for function, and ugly as sin besides

• Why rebellion against Logos leads to disorder and chaos in the external design of things

• What public housing Projects in Chicago, suburban Moscow, and industrial Poland have in common

• Why classical architecture as nurtured by Catholic principles and sound philosophy can lead the way to beautify both home and church design.