Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Bishop Barron: Word on Fire" video.

  1. 20:00 -- JP: "The philosopher, ah, German philosopher, what's his name" -- RB: "You have to narrow that one down" -- JP: "Yes, ah, the phenomenologist" -- RB: "Husserl?" -- JP: "No, his student" -- RB: "Heidegger." -- JP: "Heidegger!" .............. Listening to two unquestionably brilliant and well-educated men talking about these subjects, this is what the university should be! Not the woke nonsense that we get nowadays.
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  2. 54:46 - The silence of Christ in the presence of the Inquisitor may represent the lack of an explicit contemporary answer (the "old" answer, the writing-down of the Word of God is, after all, a part of the past from most humans' point of view) that the Ivan-part of Dostoevsky's Self felt; the kiss at the end was representative of the mystery of the undeniable love of Christ that both the Ivan-part and the Alyosha-part of Dostoevsky's Self. Even the Inquisitor thirsted for that, which was why he left the cell door open at the end. The New Atheists try their hardest to close that door. As far as Ivan's thirst for renewal goes -- his optimistic outlook in spite of it all ... an optimism for the "sticky little leaves" -- it could not be destroyed even by 600+ pages of a Russian novel focusing on the ugliest and most despicable human absurdities. For a musical representation of this, you might like to listen to Rimsky-Korsakov's "Russian Easter Overture", which expresses the chiaroscuro of a Russian spring. Which has the added relevance (in this discussion) of using Russian Orthodox themes as the depressing context in which the thrill of the springtime theme is embedded. The counter-argument to that, of course, is the elegiac heartbreak of Grieg's "The Last Spring". I hate to leave the discussion there -- I find Dostoevsky's optimism too appealing -- but I need sleep.
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