Recordings of lectures from St. John's College's Annapolis campus. The recordings include lectures in the Formal Lecture Series, Graduate Institute Wednesday Night Lecture Series, and the annual Erik S. Kristensen Memorial Lecture.
The recordings are also available on the College's Digital Archives (https://digitalarchives.sjc.edu/) where you'll find many more lectures not yet available here.
Spinoza, Pascal, Style, and Substance (Fritz Bauerschmidt)
Recording of a lecture delivered on October 23, 2026, by Professor Fritz Bauerschmidt, as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Professor Bauerschmidt is Professor of Theology at Loyola University Maryland, and winner of the Michael Ramsey Prize for Theological Writing, awarded by the Archbishop of Canterbury. He is the author of numerous articles and essays and nine books, most recently Thinking Through Aquinas: Essays on God, Humanity, and Christ.
He offers the following description: "Spinoza and Pascal were contemporaries who both wrote in the wake of the Cartesian revolution in philosophy and science. Yet it is difficult to imagine two works more different in presentation than Spinoza’s Ethics and Pascal’s Pensées: the former a tightly-woven web of definitions, theses, and propositions, and the latter a seemingly random pile of musings. These differences in style are not, however, merely stylistic; they reveal profoundly different ways of thinking and, ultimately, radically different metaphysical and theological visions."
23 Oct 2026
A Mythic Modern for the Archaeology of Tomorrow (Travis Price)
Recording of a lecture delivered on April 17, 2026, by St. John's alum Travis Price ('71), as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Travis Price is an architect, environmentalist, and the Co-Director of Cultures & Sacred Masters Studies in Architecture at the Catholic University of America. Over his career, he has developed an architecture that works hand in hand with ecology and mythology to restore the spirit of place to modern design, with numerous awards for both his built projects and writing on architecture. His work includes Manhattan’s first roof-mounted windmill, large-scale solar projects, monuments, and the 1996 architectural conversion of our Greenfield Library.
He offers the following description: The lecture will explore three voyages of authentic architecture that touch the spirit of the place: 1) Past as prologue, showing the mythos of great architecture; 2) Today’s modernity-expeditions by young emerging architects seeking modern metaphorical architecture of the world’s cultures, while creating built expeditions; 3) Practiced works built today as the “Archaeology of Tomorrow.”
2 Oct 2026
The Spirit of America: Our Apophatic Community of Love (David Townsend)
Recording of a lecture delivered on September 4, 2026, by Annapolis tutor David Townsend as part of the Formal Lecture Series.
Mr. Townsend offers the following description: "250 years ago, we brought forth a new nation, conceived on ideas ever new, yet ancient as human faith and hope in a loving community. We are on a mission, called to practice the Spirit of America. Rough-hewn as I am, I will explore our errand. What is the relationship of this community to our Declaration of July 4, 1776?"
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