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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
Why Everyone Should Believe in Fairies https://youtu.be/d8uTEjElnFY That’s the provocative title of a series of articles that the guys discuss today. Belief in nature spirits was universal around the world, including among the church fathers and Christian theologians, until the 17th century, when Enlightenment rationalism consigned them to the realm of superstition. Even today, though, …
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Justice and Reality https://youtu.be/_GhPxPVVjow On today’s show Chris guides a conversation on the nature of justice and its relationship to the given order of nature. For many intellectuals “justice” is an ideal that is imposed on society. Innate differences between people should be either compensated for, denied, or surgically removed. But is this really just? …