Passion for Learning S2. E1: The Heart of the University

David McCarthy gives a quick word on Season 2 and a few stats about our listeners across the globe.

Emma Weinheimer and Joshua Hochschild, Ph.D., talk with Dr. Barrett Turner of the Theology Department at Mount St. Mary's University. Dr. Turner is a moral theologian with expertise in political theology. He guides us through Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes, from the perspective of a Catholic tradi…

Emma Weinheimer talks with Dr. Paige Hochschild about Augustine and his Confessions. Dr. Hochschild is a historian of the early Church and a systematic theologian, as well as the chair of the department of theology at Mount St. Mary's University.  She studies Augustine in particular. In the Co…

Emma Weinheimer and Dr. Joshua Hochschild discuss Greek tragedy with Dr. Kurt Blaugher, long-time theatre professor at Mount St. Mary's University. Dr. Blaugher draws out the enduring themes of two plays, "Antigone" and "Philoctetes," and he focuses on the ritual and perfor…