God and Axiology–or, Why We Value the Things We Do https://youtu.be/OQZDYsVBcGA On today’s show Chris introduces the discipline of Axiology to listeners. Axiology is a division of philosophy–like metaphysics, ethics, or epistemology, but with the focus on the concept of value. Chris uses his recent talk at the Thank God for Bitcoin Conference as the …
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Converting the Vikings https://youtu.be/NbKfnn4TxFU Working off an article about the inability of modern writers on the Vikings to understand their conversion to Christianity, the guys discuss the weaknesses of Norse religion and the answers Christianity offered them. Glenn tells a number of stories about Vikings and explains how Norse Christianity saw itself as the fulfillment …
Woo in the Silicon Valley? https://youtu.be/uOIH42Kfs18 On today’s show Tom and the guys look at how technocratic rationalists are increasingly longing for something deeper and fuller even though their search mostly remains within the bounds of modernist assumptions and relativism. The guys look at Tara Burton’s article Rational Magic: Why a Silicon Valley culture that …
Magnanimity: A Forgotten Virtue https://youtu.be/ch5-Uw7ftNg In this week’s episode, the Pugsters riff off a Twitter thread and article contrasting the way Aragorn is portrayed in the movies and in the books. But Aragorn isn’t really the point. His character in the books but not in the movies displays magnanimity, or great-souledness (if that’s a word). …
Can Public Education Be Saved? https://youtu.be/-w3JELpQRH8 On today’s show the Pugs respond to an article published in First Things entitled: Don’t Spare the Rod, by Daniel Buck. Buck is a public school teacher and in the article he describes the break down of the order that had once at least partly been kept in public …
Away With God, Away With Humanity https://youtu.be/hQjN2BR7DFY On this week’s episode Tom engages insights from Vigen Goroian’s article (and book chapter) on Chesterton, Rallying the Really Human Things. The guys join Tom in discussing things human and the humane and the requisite theological and trascendent frame which grounds such things. For example, Christian virtues ripped …
The Role of the Imagination https://youtu.be/9q2gXSm__2w Malcolm Guite’s book, Lifting the Veil: Imagination and the Kingdom of God, provides the Pugster’s with the starting point for this week’s episode. After a summary of some of Guite’s ideas about imagination as the means by which reason and intuition are united, making the imagination an essential tool …
An Interview with Kemper Crabb https://youtu.be/MNfbSl_k6sk Kemper Crabb is a musician who was involved in the “Jesus Music” of the late ‘70s and ‘80s that later turned into CCM, an Anglican priest working in a Missouri Synod Lutheran Church, and a scholar of medieval literature and history, among other things. On today’s episode the Pugsters …
Theology, the Queen of the Sciences? https://youtu.be/54QLB2g26Dc Once upon a time Thomas Aquinas referred to theology as the “Queen of the Sciences”–but what was he referring to? Today the Pugsters take up the crisis of knowledge. The tendency today is to reduce everything to material and efficient causes–in other words, to a material basis. Whole …
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Angels, Demons, and Christus Victor https://youtu.be/SUbkCF7j22Q A timely discussion of the biblical reality of the spiritual realm, the angelic, the demonic, and Christ’s victory over Satan, death, hell, and the grave. Tom introduces the problematic placement of the place of angels and demons in contemporary theology and the need to retrieve the rich biblical vision …
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