Aesthetics: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Working from the articles in the link, the Pugsters talk about aesthetics—the philosophical field focused on questions of beauty and taste. Rather than beauty being purely in the eye of the beholder, the guys agree that beauty is objective and rooted in the transcendence of God. And …
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You’re Special, Just Like Everyone Else! In our time everyone is obligated to create an identity for himself. We’re supposed to “self-create”–making ourselves into works of art that are utterly original, you know, like snow flakes. So why is it that people increasingly think alike and are so fearful of disapproval? In today’s show the …
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Restoring the Transcendent Frame In this episode, the guys engage with fresh insights the contemporary vision of reality, human nature and purposes as they are understood from a radically immanent, materialist frame. After noting how Christian themes are often ripped from their transcendent frame and redefined with an immanent one, the pugsters evaluate not only …
Revelation, Reason, and Romanticism The Pugsters return to a topic they’ve touched on before: the problems with the Enlightenment. Glenn starts off with a summary of changing ideas of authority, focusing on the transition from Reason and Revelation to Reason over Revelation to Reason without Revelation. That gets the guys into the Enlightenment, autonomous reason, …
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It’s a Mystery! Can Every Mystery be Solved? In today’s episode Chris introduces the subject of mystery and the ways modern people and ancient people used the term–surprise, surprise, they didn’t mean the same thing–at times, they even mean things that contradict each other.Chris also delves into the way in the modern outlook in general …
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Soul Sickness and Society: Plato and Christ: Part Two The guys finish unpacking the discussion of Plato from Ed Feser’s article Woke Ideology is a Psychological Disorder. After noting how Plato understands the sick society, where democracy as a social disorder leads to tyranny, the guys engage Plato’s insights, noting positives and yet critiquing the …
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Soul Sickness and Society: Plato and Christ: Part One In today’s episode the guys unpack Plato’s understanding of human psychology and social order. They note his positive insights as well as limits as they set forth fuller Christian insights into the ways in which improper ordering of our desires tends toward destructive political orderings.
Warriors in the Garden: Martial Virtues and the Christian Man Today the Pugcast is joined by Nate Spearing, highly decorated combat veteran with 14 years and 12 deployments in Army Special Operations. Nathan has a broad range of experiences domestically and overseas and has spent his entire professional life walking out a theology of violence …
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Heiser’s Unseen Realm This week, the Pugsters look at some of the themes in Michael Heiser’s books dealing with the worldview of the biblical authors. Glenn leads the discussion, which revolves around two big ideas: the idea of a heavenly court, with angelic beings having authority over areas such as nations; and the account of …
The Hermeneutic of Suspicion In today’s show Chris introduces a term coined by the French intellectual, Paul Ricouer—the hermeneutic of suspicion. In the 19th century, theorists including Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud promoted the idea that rationality was nothing more than rationalization. Beneath the surface of any argument was something selfish and irrational. They believed that …