Ep. #129 – Fundamentals of the Faith w/ Michael Gormley
Summary What does it mean to believe and why is it reasonable? How can we present the fundamentals of the faith to Catholic high school students? Why follow Jesus? How can we make natural...
Category: Catholic Christian Worldview
BONUS | Dialogue w/ the Atheist Who Reviewed My Book
Summary Who is the atheist who read and reviewed my book? What did he like about it? What criticisms did he have of the book? What keeps him an atheist? I sit down with...
Ep. #128 – Essays by Fr. Garrigou-Lagrange w/ Dr. Minerd
Summary Who was Fr. Garrrigou-Lagrange and how did this set of essays come about? What is the Thomist critique of Descartes’ Cogito? What does Fr. Garrigou argue in an essay on the “Empiricist Skepticism...
BONUS | A New Work of Catholic Dogmatic Theology w/ Dr. Merrick
Summary If you want to take a deep dive into Catholic Dogmatic theology, Fr. Mauro Gagliardi has written an incredible new work titled Truth is a Synthesis: Catholic Dogmatic Theology that does just that....
Ep. #127 – A Jesuit’s View of Animals & Animal Suffering w/ Fr. Steck S.J.
Summary What place to animals have in God’s creation? Might some animals be redeemed? Why have some theologians moved beyond the traditional Thomistic framework? Can these newer answers help with the problem of evil...
Ep. #126 – A Response to Animal Suffering w/ Dr. Kyle Keltz
Summary What problems of evil have been proposed that focus on animal suffering? How might a Thomistic theist respond to these arguments? If faced with the apparently gratuitous suffering of a fawn trapped and...
Ep. #125 – Is Catholic Faith Worth Having? w/ Dr. Stacey
Summary What is “Catholic faith” and why is it valuable? How can Catholics respond to the objection that traditional accounts of faith are not consistent with faith being valuable? How might Protestant Christians respond?...
BONUS | An Abductive Cosmological Argument w/ Paulo Juarez
Summary What is an abductive argument as opposed to an inductive one? How can one make an abductive cosmological argument for the existence of God? Does this argument lead us to believe the cause...
Ep. #124 – Faith, Rationality, and Belief in Aquinas w/ Fr. James Brent OP
Summary What is ‘faith’ according to St. Thomas Aquinas? What makes it rational to have faith? What illustrations might we use to think about faith as an act of personal trust? Does faith include...
Ep. #123 – Was the Reformation a Mistake? w/ Dr. Levering
Summary Was the Reformation a mistake? That’s the essential question and topic of this conversation with Dr. Matthew Levering who wrote a book on the topic. We discuss the nature of biblical reasoning from...
