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

Logos Rising: Part One with Patrick Coffin

Where did everything begin? Language? Civilization? God’s people? The Incarnation? How about the discover of time, and the rise of Islam, and science?

All these topics and more are treated by Dr. E. Michael Jones, author editor of Culture Wars magazine, in his new (very readable if dense) tome Logos Rising: The History of Ultimate Reality. There so many elements to this important book that I needed to break it into two episodes. Not everyone is going to agree with 100% of his thesis, a maxim that applies to 100% of my guest. As ever, take what you find true and helpful and leave the rest. We cover the history of ultimate reality from creation up to the Incarnation of the Logos made flesh, Jesus Christ.

In Part II next week, we will cover from then until present day (well, almost).

The Medjugorje Deception

In June 1981, six Croatian teens (well, one was 10) went up Podbrdo Hill near the village of Medjugorje in then rural Yugoslavia. When they came down, they said they had seen “the Gospa” (Croatian for Lady). The local bishop, Pavao Žanić, was initially open to their claims but...after he interviewed them, and learned the full story, he knew it was a complete hoax.

If you do an internet search for “Medjugorje” you will find that the pro-apparition websites, books, DVDs, and prayer groups, positively swamp any critical sources. Yet the official judgment of the Catholic Church is clear: Medjugorje is rejected (officially, non constat de supernaturalitate). And yet Church leadership all the way up to Pope Francis treats the decades-sprawling phenomenon with a combination of kid gloves playing hot potato, to mix a metaphor.

The six seers have parlayed their so-called apparitions into consistently high sources of income, and the pilgrimage industry still rakes in millions each year off of naive, usually low information Catholics seeking solace or answers at the place.

Dr. E. Michael Jones, editor of Culture Wars magazine, wrote the first full length treatment of Medjugorje in 1988, and a book length account in 2010, which is why I invited him to give us an overview of the sprawling saga from the beginning. I do so with the intention of alerting my fellow Catholics who may be unaware (most are) of the truth about the Church’s discernment of this oddly toxic phenomenon.

Meet The Real Mayor Pete

Home Alone: A Neighbor's Thoughts on Pete Buttigieg

By E. Michael Jones

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From nowhere Pete Buttigieg, the homosexual mayor of South Bend, IN, has become a well-known fixture in the American media as a candidate for President of the United States. In this video Patrick Coffin interviews Dr. E. Michael Jones, who is Mayor Pete's neighbor and author of a concise biography about Mayer Pete titled “Home Alone: A Neighbor's Thoughts on Pete Buttigieg,” a riff on the candidate’s memoirs (well, a memoir cum political manifesto), Shortest Way Home: One Mayor’s Challenge and a Model for America’s Future. (May 28, 2019)

Mayor Pete grew up on the same street where the Jones family lives in South Bend. Jones’ oldest son attended the same high school, where both were class valedictorian (in different years, of course), and both went to Harvard. Yet, in Mayor Pete’s memoirs there is no mention of neighbors like the Jones family. As Jones makes clear, almost nothing is what it appears when it comes to this longshot Democratic candidate.

In this episode of the Patrick Coffin Show you will learn:

• The hard left wing political ideas of Antonio Gramsci and Michel Foucault held and taught by Mayor Pete’s father, the late Joe Buttigieg of Notre Dame, and how these have profoundly influenced Junior.

• Why the homosexual is now considered the ideal citizen.

• The context of Mayor Pete’s mendacious rise in local politics and why South Bend residents do not grade him highly as major.

• How the Democratic Party essentially invented Citizen Pete out of thin air.

• Why Mayor Pete’s so-called gay marriage in the Episcopal church is the apotheosis of the 1930 Anglican decision to permit birth control.

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.

The Fascinating Rise of the Horror Genre

Dr. E Michael Jones interviewed by Patrick Coffin on the rise of the horror genre.