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Special Bonus Episode – Jesus or Dionysius? Alastair Roberts on the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris.
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Brent is joined by Dr. Alastair Roberts of the Theopolis Institute in the States to discuss the very problematic opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Paris.
Who was the Greek god Dionysius and how is Dionysian symbolism used throughout Western culture?
- (0:45) What is all the fuss about?
- (1:55) The title and the ‘Feast of the gods’;
- (3:45) Recent media depictions of the ‘Last Supper’;
- (7:10) Who was Dionysius?
- (8:15) Dionysian religion;
- (9:00) The Dionysian and Nietszche;
- (10:55) Turning everything upside down;
- (14:00) The Dionysian and violence;
- (15:45) Thomas Mann;
- (17:00) Politics and the Dionysian;
- (18:50) Apollo and Dionysius;
- (19:30) Jesus as the true Dionysius;
- (22:45) A Christian response to blasphemy;
- (31:00) The song and Nature. Rousseau;
- (35:20) The French Revolution.
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