When, Where, and Why of the Incarnation

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Nov 25, 2020

Dr. Richard Meloche, president of the Alcuin Institute and systematic theologian, discusses why the Incarnation happened when it did. Short reflections on Jewish faith, Hellenic thought, and Roman order. Conversation touches on Benedict XVI’s Regensburg lecture, cultural recovery, and practical ways to form imagination, silence, and liturgy today.

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ANECDOTE

Carthusian Retreat That Confirmed A Marriage Vocation

Richard Meloche tried Carthusian life and left because the solitude and constant cell life irritated him.
He recalls yearly conversations where monks griped about food, proving even contemplatives are human and cementing his call to marriage.

ANECDOTE

Calling A High School Friend To Propose A Vocation

After leaving the monastery, Richard contacted a high-school acquaintance teaching in Rome and told her he thought God was calling him to marry her.
She flew home, they courted, and later married, illustrating providential, decisive vocational moves.

INSIGHT

Three Cultural Pillars That Enabled The Incarnation

Meloche argues the Incarnation required a unique cultural convergence: Jewish faith, Hellenic thought, and Roman order.
These three formed fertile soil so revelation, reason, and civil peace could meet and let Christianity flourish.

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Why did the Incarnation happen when it did? Dr. Richard Meloche, President of the Alcuin Institute, joins us to discuss this and the Regensburg Address

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We take a unique reflection on the Incarnation with our guest, Dr. Ricahrd Meloche. We ask why Christ was born during the time period he was and what the significance of this. We look at Pope Benedict's Regensburg lecture while enjoying a sip of whiskey and puffing on a pipe.

About The Alcuin Institute:

Officially launched on Oct. 7, 2018—the feast day of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary - the Alcuin Institute is an educational and cultural institute that oversees the formation of Catholic leaders and educators throughout the Diocese of Tulsa & Eastern Oklahoma.

The Alcuin Institute for Catholic Culture seeks to cultivate in the Diocese of Tulsa & Eastern Oklahoma forgotten, and often forbidden, realities—such as virtue, chivalry, valor, self-denial, a fondness for things of the past, and the real mirth found in friendship in order that truth, goodness, and beauty may prevail. In doing so we hope to become a bastion for authentic Catholic culture.

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