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Episode 26: Friendship

Episode 26: Friendship

Michial Farmer moderates a discussion with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about the practice of friendship, its development from Biblical and Homeric times to modern Facebook "friends," and detours along the way. In addition the discussion ranges from modern short-sightedness regarding friendship and an attempt at a Christian theology of friendship. Among the texts and authors we discuss are Homer, 1 Samuel, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Cicero, the Inklings, The Lord of the Rings, Sherlock Holmes and James Watson, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, Martin Buber, and all sorts of others. We covered a bunch of text this episode.

The Christian Humanist Podcast · Michial Farmer

September 7, 20101h 3m

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Michial Farmer moderates a discussion with David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour about the practice of friendship, its development from Biblical and Homeric times to modern Facebook "friends," and detours along the way. In addition the discussion ranges from modern short-sightedness regarding friendship and an attempt at a Christian theology of friendship. Among the texts and authors we discuss are Homer, 1 Samuel, Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Cicero, the Inklings, The Lord of the Rings, Sherlock Holmes and James Watson, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, Martin Buber, and all sorts of others. We covered a bunch of text this episode.
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