Dialogue 2: Fidelity

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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In this second dialogue session Jim and Kirsten focus on the theme of Fidelity within the thoughts and teachings of Gabriel Marcel. Resources: The transcript for this episode can be found here. The book we will be using this season can be found here. Connect with us: Have a question you'd like Jim or Kirsten to answer about this season? Email us: [email protected] Send us a voicemail: cac.org/voicemail We'll be accepting questions for our Listener Questions episode until May 13th, 2025. This podcast is made possible, thanks to the generosity of our donors. If you would love to support the ongoing work of the Center for Action and Contemplation and the continued work of our podcasts, you can donate at https://cac.org/support-cac/podcasts/ Thank you!

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation.
0:04.3	To learn more, visit cac.org.
0:08.4	Greetings. I'm Jim Finley.
0:11.1	And I'm Kirsten Oates.
0:13.2	Welcome to Turning to the Mystics.
0:30.5	Welcome, everyone, to Season 11 of Turning to the Mystics, where we're turning to the teachings of Gabriel Marcel.
0:32.8	And I'm here with Jim to dialogue about Jim's second session on Fidelity.
0:39.0	Yes, exactly.
0:39.9	Glad to get into this again for the people.
0:43.1	Yeah.
0:43.8	I'm so looking forward to our discussion.
0:45.7	And I just wanted to remind everyone we're using the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel by
0:50.2	Kenneth Gallagher.
0:51.6	And so the quotes will be quoting today are from that book. Yeah, chapter
0:57.6	five of that book. Excellent. Chapter five, Roman numeral one on fidelity. Right. So I think just to
1:07.3	situate ourselves back into the realm of Marcel, you've shared with us, Jim,
1:12.8	that Marcel shares vision and path aspects to his view of the world. Fidelity is the start
1:21.3	down the path aspects. He has these three path aspects. But I thought it might be helpful
1:26.6	before we talk about fidelity to situate ourselves
1:30.9	in the vision aspects of Marcel's path.
1:33.7	Yes, and notice also, we saw this in all the mystics also.
1:38.1	They start out by bearing witness to what reality looks like through awakened eyes,
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