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Summary What is theology? How did the theological methods of Karl Barth and Fr. Karl Rahner differ from the scholastics and neo-scholastics? What is a mystery and what is its role in theology? Can...
Summary Is the God of the Old Testament a vindictive bully? What should we think about the dichotomy often presented between the angry Old Testament God and the loving New Testament God? How can...
Summary What does Lumen Gentium 8 teach about the nature of the Church? Does its teaching contradict the traditional view that Christ’s Church is identical to the Catholic Church? How ought we to understand...
Summary What is philosophy? How should we subdivide it? What is meant by the “perennial tradition”? How do Catholic philosophers avoid the “is-ought gap” problem in ethics? Dr. Jim Jacobs joins us to discuss...
New Year’s Goals/Resolutions for 2024 Why make goals? If you don’t, then you’re more likely to drift along and get pulled in all sorts of directions. Goals help us make progress in our lives...
Summary What is epistemology? What are some ideas to keep in mind if we are to have a good epistemology? How can we help raise our children to have a good Catholic epistemology? What...
Summary Why are the five books of Moses so important? What are the genres and themes of the Pentateuch? What should we think about Mosaic authorship? How might we understand difficult, violent passages that...
Summary Ryan M. Hurd joins the podcast to argue for the following thesis: God has zero wrath. How does this make sense when the Bible speaks clearly about God’s anger? Why say that God...
Summary What is Aquinas’s argument for an Unmoved Mover? How has it been understood by many Thomists and why does Daniel Shields have a different take? What should we think about the objection that...
Summary Who was Fr. Lagrange and why was his work important? What does the Church formally teach about the historicity of the Gospels? How can a faithful Catholic handle historical difficulties like the alleged...
