Other Presentations by Gil Bailie
Presentations by Gil Bailie made since the mid-1980s through 2018
Being Scene: Gil Bailie & Ron Austin
The Advent of History & the History of Advent
A Retreat at Monserrat – Dallas, Texas
Nothing Remains Intact Without Effort
Emancipation from Radical Emancipation
Reflections on Isak Dineson’s Babette’s Feast
Introduction to The Truth of Poetry & The Poetry of Truth
Violence Unveiled Audiobook New Introduction
Being Scene: The Self and the Sound of Two Hands Clapping
A presentation by Gil Bailie and Ron Austin, Fellows of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, California in 2011
Being Scene Part 1 – Gil Bailie
Being Scene Part 2 – Ron Austin
The Advent of History & The History of Advent
A Retreat at the Monserrat Jesuit Retreat Center – Dallas, Texas
Nothing Remains Intact Without Effort
Resentment
A public presentation given in Brisbane, Australia in 2003 entitled “The Religious Challenges of the 21st Century”.
2000 Years And No New God
Friedrich Nietzsche’s aphoristic lament in his late work “The Antichrist” that it had been almost “two thousand years and no new god” glimpses an important anthropological effect of the Christian revelation. The word Nietzsche uses to characterize what he loathes most about the cultural effect of Christianity is the word pity. It isn’t pity; it is empathy for victims as victims that the Gospel awakens, and it is that empathy that has had a mounting effect on cultural life during the last “two thousand years”. In this presentation from 2002 Gil Bailie describes in broad overview of effects of the Gospel on cultures exposed to it using the interpretive lens of René Girard’s mimetic theory.
Emancipation from Radical Emancipation
Gil Bailie’s presentation at the 2011 Conference of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. The conference theme was “Radical Emancipation – Confronting the Challenge of Secularism“. Mr. Bailie’s talk was the third of the three person contingent from the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology recorded at the conference and were given under the heading: “Emancipation from Radical Emancipation – the Apprehension of Personal Vocation through Liturgy and the Arts”
Christian Virtues Gone Mad
An expanded version of Gil Bailie’s presentation at the 2009 Colloquium on Violence and Religion conference at St. Mary’s University, London.
Unlike the generation that sacrificed so much to preserve our civilization, many of us have lately come to believe that we can discharge our present responsibilities simply by relaxing the religious, moral, social and cultural traditions that have defined our culture, relieving our children of the burden of having exemplary models to emulate and ennobling standards to which to aspire, and taking special care not to inconvenience newcomers to our societies with any serious need to familiarize themselves with these traditions. This minimalist approach to cultural responsibility is a striking example of what G. K. Chesterton called Christian virtue gone mad. Contrary to its purported intent, it has resulted in a generation or two of people who feel entitled to the blessings Western Civilization is still able to bestow but who no longer identify with that civilization in any really serious way, many of whom, in fact, have been inculcated with a contempt for it.
