The Political Boundaries Of The Church | Prof. Gladden Pappin

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🗓️ 29 October 2019

⏱️ 52 minutes

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This lecture was given at the Yale Law School on 7 October 2019.

Gladden Pappin is assistant professor of politics at the University of Dallas, and is the cofounder of American Affairs. He is also a permanent research fellow and senior adviser of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture at the University of Notre Dame. He received his AB (history) and PhD (government) from Harvard. His writings appear regularly in a variety of publications, including the Norton Anthology of American Political Thought.

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0:00.0	This is a talk about the Catholic Church and its political situation, maybe in a little bit of a different sense from what we're normally used to thinking about, or normally used to hearing.
0:12.2	Even maybe a bit about a meta-political situation or the fundamental political situation of the church in modern times.
0:23.7	And I think that there are some aspects of what the Catholic Church is or claims to be or thinks that it is,
0:35.6	which have mostly been set aside, but which are coming back
0:41.5	into view because of a series of problems, but are coming back into view nonetheless.
0:48.3	So, you know, since there's no wine and beer on offer, I thought I would start with an image
0:55.1	of wine and beer, and in order to make you think about the church in a slightly different
1:02.6	way as well. So the question is, what do these images contain? You know, this is a beer can,
1:10.2	a glass of wine, you know, some whiskey, and we can think about
1:15.6	them as all being simply units of alcohol, or we can think about them as particular types
1:22.6	of products or, you know, things that we consume at different times on different occasions.
1:29.3	And I think when we look at food and see calories, or when we look at wine and see alcohol content,
1:40.3	we're doing something very similar to what we're doing.
1:44.4	I mean, there's an element of truth to it, but not enough truth to grasp something essential.
1:50.4	We're doing something similar when we look at the church and see a religion, right?
1:56.8	So there's something true about the fact that, you know, the, that there are many different religions, and they all have different characteristics.
2:06.7	But it's a matter of looking at, a matter of how we, how we look at the institution.
2:13.3	So two different ways of looking at wine and beer, you know, an aperitif cart, you know, wine for a particular occasion.
2:20.9	You're not thinking about the alcoholic content.
2:23.2	You're thinking about what it is.
2:25.5	Similar, I think, similar I'm going to suggest when we think about religion, there's a similar problem in considering on the one hand, then the United
2:36.9	States, there are many different religions, and religions are primarily belief systems.
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