Beyond the books
Listen, watch and history
Not everyone learns best from a page. Here are podcasts, lectures, audiobooks, videos and films worth your time, and the histories that explain how each question came to be asked. Each names the questions it helps with.
To watch
Documentaries, video courses and films that carry an argument.
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The Thomistic Institute, 2020 · short videos, about 10 minutes each · A free video course in the thought of St. Thomas, taught by Dominican friars.
Helps with: Can reason know that God exists?; Do natures and essences really exist?; Is there a spiritual soul?; Is morality objective and knowable?; Faith and reason: who has the last word?
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Bishop Robert Barron, 2011 · 10 episodes, about an hour each · A documentary series filmed in fifty locations on Christ, the Church, the sacraments, the saints and prayer.
Helps with: What do the sacraments do?; Are the world's learning and arts a danger or a gift?; The office of Peter; Icons and images; Liturgical development
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Film Jesus of NazarethFranco Zeffirelli, 1977 · about 6 hours, a miniseries · The life of Christ from the Annunciation to the Resurrection, faithful to the Gospels.
Helps with: Where does your eye rest in Christ: His divinity or His humanity?; How should Scripture be read?
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Bishop Robert Barron, 2016 · a series of short documentaries · Documentaries on the figures who shaped the Church and the culture: Aquinas, Newman, Francis of Assisi, Catherine of Siena, Michelangelo, Chesterton and others.
Helps with: Faith and reason: who has the last word?; Does doctrine develop?; Contemplation or action?; Are the world's learning and arts a danger or a gift?