Listen now | Dr. Ian Marcus Corbin is a philosopher on faculty in Neurology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School, where he co-directs the Human Network Initiative, and is a Faculty Member at the HMS Center for Bioethics. He serves as a Senior Fellow at the think tank Capita, co-directs the Trust and Belonging Initiative at Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program, and serves on the ethics committee at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His philosophical work examines the connections between modes of intersubjectivity, community, and cognitive flourishing, and he has a book on belonging and world-making for forthcoming from Yale University Press. He advises elected officials at the federal and state level, along with leaders of for-profit and non-profit enterprises, on issues of belonging, culture and flourishing.Dr. Corbin is spearheading Harvard’s Public Culture Project.
This discussion of a crisis of meaning is meaningless without the inclusion of the meaning Giver. Without a firm foundation on Jesus Christ and the support structure found in the body of Christ there will ALWAYS be a crisis of meaning.
I suppose if you have to overcome this crisis on your own, without Christ, then all of this makes sense. But why would you want to go it alone, since there is no need to do so?
This discussion of a crisis of meaning is meaningless without the inclusion of the meaning Giver. Without a firm foundation on Jesus Christ and the support structure found in the body of Christ there will ALWAYS be a crisis of meaning.
I suppose if you have to overcome this crisis on your own, without Christ, then all of this makes sense. But why would you want to go it alone, since there is no need to do so?
“Revivification”?
Or … “revival”?
Great discussion!