Famished Craving 13 CD Album

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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.

TS Eliot, Gerontion

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This series of 13 weekly sessions recorded in 1995 was originally made on cassette tape and is now made available in digital audio CD and MP3 formats.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 of MP3 files on a data CD at a reduced price.

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Famished Craving Part 7 - MP3 Price: $4.00 Quantity: In this 7th part of the Famished Craving series Gil Bailie follows the cultural effects of the Western world’s increasing secularism as it moves away from its Judeo-Christian roots; learning what it truly means to be cut off from revelation.	Famished Craving Part 6 - MP3 Price: $4.00 Quantity: In this 6th part of the Famished Craving series Gil Bailie asks the question, “What is Modernity?”. Through examples taken from current articles Mr. Bailie examines modernity’s secularized Christian values of concern for the victim and the human person.
Famished Craving Part 5 - MP3 Price: $4.00 Quantity: In this 5th part of the Famished Craving series Gil Bailie explores nihilism as a religious phenomenon; the religious experience of meaninglessness….the meaninglessness of my life as a numinous fact and I must witness to it.	Famished Craving Part 4 - MP3 Price: $4.00 Quantity: “Lurking behind every chance to be made whole by fame is the ax man of further dismembering.” In the fourth part of the Famished Craving series Gil Bailie looks at the relationship between the modern world’s infatuations with fame and nihilism.
Famished Craving Part 3 - MP3 Price: $4.00 Quantity: From GLORY to modern fame via the desacralizing influence of the Gospel. In part 3 of the Famished Craving series Gil Bailie pursues the dynamics of moving from the false transcendence of primitive sacrifice to the true transcendence of self- sacrifice.	Famished Craving Part 2 - MP3 Price: $4.00 Quantity: Famished Craving: the attention of others, the fascination of the famous and the need for faith. In part 2 of this series Gil Bailie continues his investigation into the modern culture of fame and its violent precursors via the Heraclitan logos,
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Famished Craving Part 11 - MP3 Price: $4.00 Quantity: Part 11 of the Famished Craving series looks at the relationship between fame and myth through examples from texts of the ancient Romans (Vergil) and Greeks (Aeschylus) as well as from the modern world’s celebrity myth making media fonts of fame.	Famished Craving Part 12 - MP3 Price: $4.00 Quantity: Following on the discussion of Vergil’s understanding of fama as an image of both fame and myth Gil Bailie, takes up the work of Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid – Vergil’s later contemporary) contrasting these two exemplars of Roman letters.
Famished Craving Part 13 - MP3 Price: $4.00 Quantity: In part 13 of Famished Craving series, Gil Bailie uses the various meanings of the Latin word “liber” as a point of departure in an exploration of “book, liberation and Dionysus”. Beginning with Dante’s Paolo & Franchesca and ending with St. Augustine.