Chris Anderson is a Roman Catholic theologian, high school theology and philosophy teacher, college instructor, and pastoral minister based in Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
Chris was a student of Dave’s during their overlapping time at Seton Hill University, and in this conversation the two revisit and expand upon themes they had first discussed years prior, including the relationship between philosophy and theology, the value of a liberal arts education, Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica, the phenomenological and narrative richness of Augustine’s Confessions, and existentialism from Heidegger to Beauvoir.
Along the way, Chris shares his reactions to the selection of an American (and Augustinian) pope, his approach to the concept of kenosis, his relationship to mortality in light of his deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan in early adulthood, his view of the relationship between AI and human mortality, and much more.
Chris’ Recommendations:
“Black Mirror” (TV Show)
Martin Heidegger, “Poetry, Language, Thought” (Book)
Sarah Bakewell, “At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails” (Book)
David Baumeister, “Kant on the Human Animal: Anthropology, Ethics, Race” (Book)
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