True Enchantment and the Consequences of Disenchantment In today’s show Glenn begins with a marvelous series of word studies ranging all the way from “enchantment” to “cosmology”. His point is that our language is full of words that reflect a time when the world was full of meaning and words were spells that drew on …
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C. S. Lewis, Christian Platonist (and that’s a good thing) In today’s show Chris raises the subject of C. S. Lewis and metaphysics. The evidence is overwhelming that C. S. Lewis was a Platonist–there are passages throughout his fiction in particular that demonstrate it. Tom and Glenn note that it shouldn’t surprise us since Lewis …
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Technology: What Are We Really Making? Tom continues his reflection on the theological implications of technology. Are there any lines here? If it can be done, must it be done? What happened at Babel? And what about Cain’s sons? They’re identified in the Bible as the fathers of the arts. As usual, Glenn and Chris …
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Are Evangelicals Crypto-Secularists? The best kept secrets are the ones that you are keep from yourself. In today’s show Glenn shares his thoughts on evangelical secularism–in other words, there are assumptions and biases that many evangelicals have that actually have their origins in a secular outlook. The paradox of this state of mind is evangelicals …
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The Case for Recovering Two Classical Virtues: Pietas & Gravitas In today’s show Chris introduces two virtues that he has written about elsewhere–pietas and gravitas. These virtues are at one and the same time alien to the contemporary world, yet longed for. What’s more, there is a sense of recognition when people see them in …
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Technology: The Promise and the Peril In today’s show Tom introduces the subject of technology and its uses and abuses. While technology is an expression of God’s image in human beings, it also can be used to deconstruct that image–or at least deface it in some way. So, do we use technology to shape the …
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Meaning in a Cathedral In this episode Glenn Sunshine shares his memories of Notre Dame from his time in Paris, as well as his thoughts on the art of interpreting the meaning embedded in the structure of a cathedral. Following the recent fire at Notre Dame there were disturbing remarks by some Protestants and secularists …
C. S. Lewis, H. P. Lovecraft, and Aliens Today the guys get into a little literary criticism as they discuss an article that Chris wrote for Touchstone Magazine years ago comparing C. S. Lewis and H. P Lovecraft. Most listeners to The Theology Pugcast are likely to be familiar with C. S. Lewis and his …
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More On Sins of the Tongue Tom continues his reflections on his Oxford mentor’s essay on sins of speech. Glenn and Chris speak up when they have something to say, all the while hoping that they are telling the truth.
Sins of the Tongue In our time of campus speech codes and hectoring for “misgendering” someone, it is tempting to downplay the fact that you really can do harm with your speech. Two of the Ten Commandments prohibit forms of speech–blasphemy and false witness. A case could be made that those are the same thing–just …