Famished Craving 13 MP3-CD

Think now

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors

And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions,

Guides us by vanities. Think now

She gives when our attention is distracted

And what she gives, gives with such supple confusions

That the giving famishes the craving.

 

It has been said that a “celebrity is someone who is famous for being well known”. It is a definition that underscores one of the most curious aspects of contemporary life. As uniquely modern as it is however, fascination for those whose chief distinction is that large numbers of people are fascinated by them goes all the way back to the dawn of human culture.

 

With each passing day, however, it is becoming clearer that the evermore vertiginous 'fame, fad, fanfare' phenomenon that has come to dominate popular culture is a symptom of a deepening spiritual, social and psychological crisis. In order to understand this crisis and to appreciate how uniquely Christian spirituality and Christian discipleship address its underlying malaise we will undertake an historical survey of the anthropological and psychological role that fame has played in human affairs.

 

Using this survey as a backdrop and following the outline in Leo Braudy's book, The Frenzy of Renown, Gil Bailie rethinks the modern worlds's social and psychological presuppositions and ponders anew the anthropological and psychological implications of Christian conversion.

This series of 13 weekly sessions recorded in 1995 was originally made on cassette tape and is now made available in digital audio CD and MP3 formats. Because of the differing lengths of the formats the breaks between sessions frequently occur within a CD or MP3 file (the MP3 replicate the CDs). We also offer the entire set 13 CDs in a vinyl binder.