<\/div>\n
Listen here:<\/strong><\/p>\n
East Meets West: Consumerism and Asceticism<\/h1>\n $\"fr-gregory-jensen-150x150\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n
Fr. Gregory Jensen<\/strong><\/p>\n\nhttp:\/\/audio.ancientfaith.com\/specials\/acton\/Jensen.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n
Asceticism is concerned with the \u201cinner transformation of the human person, in his being progressively conformed to Christ.\u201d Understood in this way, asceticism has a foundational role to play in any Christian response to the practical and anthropological challenges of consumerism. <\/p>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/p>\n
Orthodoxy and Natural Law<\/h1>\n
$\"michael-butler-150x150\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n
Fr. Michael Butler<\/strong><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/audio.ancientfaith.com\/specials\/acton\/ButlerTwo.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n
Eastern Orthodoxy is traditionally viewed as ambivalent about natural law. This lecture considers how natural law thinking might work in distinctly Orthodox ways of thinking about the relationship between faith and reason and its implications of the social order.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/p>\n
Orthodoxy, Church, and State<\/h1>\n
$\"michael-butler-150x150\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n
Fr. Michael Butler<\/strong><\/p>\nhttp:\/\/audio.ancientfaith.com\/specials\/acton\/ButlerOne.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n
For centuries, the relationship between Orthodox churches and the state with majority-Orthodox countries has been close. This lecture explains the historical and theological background to this relationship, and how it has changed in the modern world.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/p>\n
Why Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Matters<\/h1>\n
Fr. Johannes L. Jacobse<\/strong><\/p>\n
$\"jacobse-bw\"$ <\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/audio.ancientfaith.com\/specials\/acton\/Jacobse.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the courageous Russian writer, contributed indispensably to bringing down the Soviet Union. Conventional Western opinion sees his story, too, as ending then. But the conflict of good against evil and truth against lies runs throughout the moral universe, not just the Soviet scene. Moreover, half of his writings are not yet in English. This is the unknown Solzhenitsyn.<\/p>\n
<\/div>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Acton University is a unique, four-day exploration of the intellectual foundations of a free society. Guided by a distinguished international faculty, Acton University is an opportunity to deepen your knowledge and integrate rigorous philosophy, Christian theology, and sound economics. At this year\u2019s event, the following Orthodox speakers were featured: Fr. Gregory Jensen, Fr. Michael Butler […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1784],"tags":[357,723,1161,1421],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12807"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12807"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12822,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12807\/revisions\/12822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aoiusa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

Why Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Matters<\/h1>\nFr. Johannes L. Jacobse<\/strong><\/p>\n