The Educated Leader
This podcast seeks to educate and empower leaders in politics, civil society and the church to know what it means to be human and to act accordingly.
Dr. Christiaan Alting von Geusau leads the International Catholic Legislators Network (ICLN), which he founded in 2010 to provide Christian politicians with faith formation, education and networking opportunities. He is the founder and principal of Ambrose Advice e.U., a company that provides strategic advisory and leadership coaching to senior public office holders around the world. Dr. von Geusau is Rector emeritus and Professor for Philosophy of Law and Education at ITI Catholic University in Austria.
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The Educated Leader
Latest Episodes
Christian Anthropology: The Human Person in Catholic Thought - Friendship, Community, and the Social Nature of the Person
Session 8: Friendship, Community, and the Social Nature of the PersonAristotle's account of friendship (philia) and Aquinas's Christianisation of it provide resources for thinking about the bonds beyond family; friendship, civic l...
Christian Anthropology: The Human Person in Catholic Thought - The Family as Domestic Church
Session 7: The Family as Domestic ChurchThe family is not merely a social unit but a theological reality; the primordial community in which persons are formed and love is learned. This session examines the Church's account of marr...
Christian Anthropology: The Human Person in Catholic Thought - The Body as Gift: Incarnation, Vulnerability, and Human Dignity
Session 6: The Body as Gift: Incarnation, Vulnerability, and Human DignityThe person is not a soul that happens to inhabit a body but a bodily being whose flesh is constitutive of who they are. This session explores what it means ...
Christian Anthropology: The Human Person in Catholic Thought - The Relational Person: Made for Love
ession 5: The Relational Person: Made for LoveAgainst any purely individualist anthropology, the Catholic tradition insists that the person is constituted in relation. In relation to God, to others, and to creation. This ...
Christian Anthropology: The Human Person in Catholic Thought - Freedom, Sin, and the Wounded Will
Session 4: Freedom, Sin, and the Wounded WillHuman freedom is real but not unlimited, and the doctrine of Original Sin explains why our freedom is structurally damaged. Drawing on Augustine and Aquinas, this session explores the w...