Podcast Episodes

Christian Nationalism, Dechristianization, Idolatry, and Christmas

This Christmas season, we talk about the question of public, national worship, and the state in direct relation to God.

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Published on 3 years ago

Apologetics and Aquinas

In this episode Joe describes the influence that Thomas Aquinas has had on the field of Christian apologetics, and discusses the areas where the Thomistic approach falls short of vindicating the full…

Published on 3 years ago

Reformed Thomism(??) w/James White

Ezra Institute Fellow Dr. James White joins us this week to talk about the Protestant fascination with Aquinas, and the path that leads from Thomism to Roman Catholicism. Dr. White explains some of …

Published on 3 years ago

A Distinctly Christian View of Healing

Joe Boot addresses the realm of medicine and healing, and demonstrates how much of the contemporary thinking surrounding medicine has been reduced to mere biology. In contrast, the Christian should t…

Published on 3 years ago

Providence, History, and Being

In this episode Joe Boot discusses the thought of Thomas Aquinas as it relates to the Christian understanding of history. To speak of history is inescapably to speak about God’s relation to and activ…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

Thomism and Natural Law

This week in the thought of Thomas Aquinas, we examine the idea of natural law, and conclude that, as articulated by Aquinas, it is an idea that gives unwarranted scope to human reason, and effective…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

Aquinas and the State

We could have also titled this episode How the Reformation delivered us from ecclesiocracy. Here we discuss Aquinas’ political philosophy, the problem with his adoption of Aristotle’s teaching that m…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

Aquinas and the Nature/Grace Divide

There is a common assumption in Christianity that at the fall, man lost a supernatural gift of grace, but retained his natural faculties intact and unscathed – including the faculty of reason. In thi…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

Canada's Gay Federal Action Plan, w/ Andre Schutten

Ezra Institute Fellow Andre Schutten talks about Canada’s newest Federal Action Plan to spend $100 million to advance a postmodern, secular worldview in the area of sexuality. He reinforces how Chris…

Published on 3 years, 1 month ago

The Irony of Aquinas

We have new music and a new theme as we get rolling in Season 6. In this episode we begin a short series on the life, thought, and influence of Thomas Aquinas, the medieval scholastic philosopher and…

Published on 3 years, 2 months ago