Gabriel Marcel: Session 3

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

Center for Action and Contemplation

Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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This is the third session that focuses on the philosophy of Gabriel Marcel. In the tenor of the ancient practice of Lectio Divina, James Finley reads passages from Kenneth T. Gallagher's The Philosophy of Gabriel Marcel, reflects on the qualitative essence of the spirit of this text, and finishes with a meditative practice. Resources: Turning to the Mystics is a podcast by the Center for Action and Contemplation. To learn more about James Finley, visit his faculty profile here. 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.
0:04.0	To learn more, visit cac.org.
0:09.8	Greetings. I'm Jim Finley.
0:13.2	Welcome to Turning to the Mystics.
0:26.6	Greetings, everyone, and welcome to our time together, exploring the trustworthy guidance found in the teachings of Gabriel Marcel.
0:32.6	In the previous session, we explored fidelity as a path or a way of life to be more
0:41.7	habitually established in the mystery of God being poured out and given to us as the mystery
0:49.4	of ourselves in our nothingness without God.
0:53.8	And in this session, we're going to continue on the path, this time moving from fidelity to
1:01.0	hope.
1:02.0	And so I'm again, I'm still in Kenneth Gallagher's summary of these teachings with the quotes.
1:10.0	We're in chapter 5 of Kenneth Gallagher's book,
1:14.4	Access to Being Fidelity, Hope, and Love.
1:17.5	And we're moving from Fidelity into Hope,
1:21.2	which is on pages 81 to 86 of Gallagher's book.
1:25.9	So that's kind of where we are. He begins, like he always does,
1:30.9	with like practical realities of daily life. And he begins by saying that hope usually,
1:39.2	psychologically, refers to the ways that we hope that a certain situation that we're in the midst of turns out
1:47.1	the way we hope it will. So maybe anything from a project at work to a relationship, to a diagnosis
1:55.1	of health, to this kind of the normal passage of hope. And I looked at it in this way, the psychological level,
2:04.6	which is important, it's understandable. There's a word of prudence that Marcel's going to give
2:11.1	around this understanding of hope and how he's going to be suggesting hope that transcends this.
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