The Theology Pugcast

The Thomist Tolkien (an interview with Yannick Imbert) https://youtu.be/k9wNRRXIgAw Today the Pugcast welcomes French Reformed theologian Yannick Imbert onto the show! Yannick is the author of a new book on J. R. R. Tolkien, “From Imagination to Faerie: Tolkien’s Thomist Fantasy”. The book is a scholarly treatment of Tolkien’s theological outlook and how it shaped …

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What if Christians Had Their Own Version of NPR? (We Do.) https://youtu.be/ZZNBlHyBWpc Today the Pugcast is joined by Ken Myers, the man behind Mars Hill Audio. Mars Hill Audio was founded by Ken in 1993 after working for National Public Radio and serving as editor of Eternity Magazine. Among conservative Christian intellectuals Mars Hill Audio …

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Christ All in All: Christology and Reality https://youtu.be/LggfLB4LuOg On today’s show Tom unpacks insights from Rhys Laverty’s article: A Theory of Everything: Christology as a Hope for Evangelical Metaphysical Revival. The guys delve into fascinating topics of how the early theologians of the Church redefined the philosophical as they put its tools and insights into …

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Technology and the Return of the Old Gods https://youtu.be/hQ5s2daz8wg Today’s show returns to the subject of the disenchantment and reenchantment of the world. The Pugsters discuss an article arguing that technology in the form of the bots and algorithms that control so much of online life function today much like the angels and demons of …

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Where Totalitarians Come From https://youtu.be/_ZZ0lLtJYn4 There is something new under the sun—totalitarianism. Often confused with authoritarianism or tyranny, totalitarianism is a modern phenomenon, only possible in modernity. It is also uniquely deadly in its implications. So, what is it about modernity that makes totalitarianism feasible, and what makes it different from earlier forms of political …

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All Things G. K. Chesterton—Especially Distributism https://youtu.be/at8ly5Mw3SY Today the Pugcast welcomes Dr. David Deavel on to the show to discuss G. K. Chesterton in all of his enormity. Perhaps best known among evangelicals for his book Orthodoxy, Chesterton also wrote detective fiction about a priest named, Father Brown, as well as longer works of fiction …

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After the Virus: Tyranny Rising https://youtu.be/zvRTnx_g16Q On today’s show Tom unpacks Hans Boersma’s short article: Viral Submission: on the Emerging Totalitarianism of the New Biopolitics. The guys define and engage biopolitics and how the recent pandemic exposed how it’s encroachment into the sacred territories of our life, health, work, and community relationships are becoming claimed …

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Cyberpunk and the Metaverse https://youtu.be/5RDwibgTfGo Today’s Pugcast walks through a blog post by Jason Ananda Josephson Storm, an important secular philosopher who, among other things, is engaged in a systematic critique of Postmodernism and where things should go from there. This post deals with Zuckerberg’s Metaverse and assesses it from the perspective of 1990s Cyberpunk, …

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Is Sweat Really Necessary? https://youtu.be/6zDTG_9MhK4 In today’s show the Pugs discuss a recent article in First Things by Joshua Mitchell, By the Sweat of Our Brow. It’s a free ranging, yet profound treatment of the erosion of competence in daily life, among other things. Mitchell makes the argument that citizenship requires “mediating institutions” (families, small …

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Apocalyptic AI: Cyber Theosis? https://youtu.be/x_9XIg7rZGw On today’s show Tom brings into discussion themes from Robert Geraci’s book: Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality. The conversation focuses on ways in which the Western Christian Apocalyptic emphasis gets changed and rethought by several key figures in the Robotics and AI research …

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