Ongoing Intellectual Formation // Episode 29
A Word from Our Outpost, with Joseph and Crystal Gruber
Wherein we go more deeply into the third pillar of apostolic formation, which is intellectual formation, and specifically talk about growing in our understanding of ethics, philosophy, and theology. Joseph also addresses a few of the issues people brought up with the apologetics classes... Works we reference: C.S. Lewis, *The Abolition of Man* Aristotle, *Nicomachean Ethics*, esp. the Hillsdale course on it: https://lp.hillsdale.edu/aristotle-enroll/ Steven J. Jensen, *Living the Good Life: A Beginner's Thomistic Ethics* Servais Pinckaers, O.P., *Morality: The Catholic View* Peter Kreeft, *The Journey*; and others as well... Josef Pieper,*Leisure: The Basis of Culture*; *Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power*; *Josef Pieper: An Anthology*; *The Cardinal Virtues*; *The Theological Virtues* and whatever else you come across of his... Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, *Introduction to Christianity*; "Jesus of Nazareth*; and anything else you can get your hands on *Catechism of the Catholic Church*; going through the footnotes and going deeper with the *Catechism* as the springboard *The Bible*
About Podcast
Joseph and Crystal were Catholic missionaries for over a decade with FOCUS, the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, serving at MIT, UW Madison, Carnegie Mellon University, Western Washington University, and then at a parish in Jackson, Michigan. They're now the co-founders of Our Outpost Marriage Ministry, Inc., a marriage ministry seeking to awaken authentic Catholic culture through holy matrimony, equipping Catholic men and women through formation and accompaniment. Check out their work at https://ouroutpost.org/
This podcast serves as a place for sharing the transformational ideas, books, scripture passages, and people that we've seen impacting our apostolate for the better, in the hopes of serving other Catholic missionary disciples.