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20 - The Forms of Despair
“The greatest hazard of all, losing the self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.” - Kierkegaard, The Sickness unto De…
3 years, 6 months ago
19 - The Sickness unto Death
After falsely announcing this a few times, we're finally starting on Kierkegaard's The Sickness unto Death, in which he discusses the nature of despa…
3 years, 10 months ago
18 - The Crownless Again Shall Be King
In this special episode, I look toward Good Friday as I discuss some Tolkienian wisdom and the true myth of the gospel. --- This episode is sponso…
3 years, 10 months ago
17 - Tolkien Reading Day
Happy Tolkien Reading Day! In this special episode of Mythic Mind, I'm joined by several podcasters, professors, authors, and other fans to discuss w…
3 years, 11 months ago
16 - The Sorrow that Makes for Joy
I had said that we would begin with The Sickness unto Death today, but I decided to put that off one more time. As we prepare to discuss Kierkegaard'…
3 years, 11 months ago
15 - To Need God is a Human Being's Highest Perfection
In the previous episode, we concluded our study of Kierkegaard's The Concept of Anxiety. In this episode, in preparation for moving into The Sickness…
3 years, 11 months ago
14 - Anxiety as Saving Through Faith
In this episode, I conclude our study of Kierkegaard's The Concept of Anxiety with the final chapter, "Anxiety as Saving Through Faith," which uses A…
4 years ago
13 - The Good, The Bad, and the Anxious
In this episode, we return to Kierkegaard's The Concept of Anxiety with Chapter 4, in which he discusses, among other things, the psychology of evil …
4 years ago
12 - Yes, The Lord of the Rings is Christian
There was recently a post published to Medium, titled “No, the Lord of the Rings is not Christian.” This post, which made rounds throughout the inter…
4 years ago
11 - What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?
This is the second lecture from my course, "Philosophy and Christian Thought." I do a couple things in this lecture: first, I address the question po…
4 years, 1 month ago