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Revelation, Reason, and Romanticism
Season 3 Episode 121
The Pugsters return to a topic they’ve touched on before: the problems with the Enlightenment. Glenn starts off with a summary of changing ideas of a…
4 years, 7 months ago
It's a Mystery! Can Every Mystery be Solved?
Season 3 Episode 120
In today's episode Chris introduces the subject of mystery and the ways modern people and ancient people used the term--surprise, surprise, they didn…
4 years, 7 months ago
Soul Sickness and Society: Plato and Christ: Part Two
Season 3 Episode 119
The guys finish unpacking the discussion of Plato from Ed Feser's article Woke Ideology is a Psychological Disorder. After noting how Plato understan…
4 years, 7 months ago
Soul Sickness and Society: Plato and Christ: Part One
Season 3 Episode 118
In today’s episode the guys unpack Plato's understanding of human psychology and social order. They note his positive insights as well as limits as t…
4 years, 8 months ago
Warriors in the Garden: Martial Virtues and the Christian Man
Season 3 Episode 117
Today the Pugcast is joined by Nate Spearing, highly decorated combat veteran with 14 years and 12 deployments in Army Special Operations. Nathan has…
4 years, 8 months ago
Heiser’s Unseen Realm
Season 3 Episode 116
This week, the Pugsters look at some of the themes in Michael Heiser’s books dealing with the worldview of the biblical authors. Glenn leads the disc…
4 years, 8 months ago
The Hermeneutic of Suspicion
Season 3 Episode 115
In today’s show Chris introduces a term coined by the French intellectual, Paul Ricouer—the hermeneutic of suspicion. In the 19th century, theorists …
4 years, 8 months ago
The Return of the Metanarrative?!
Season 3 Episode 114
Early postmodern promoters argued that the end of metanarratives like Christianity and the Enlightenment would lead to a peaceful plurality of group …
4 years, 9 months ago
The Irish Saints: Redeemed Paganism
Season 3 Episode 113
In an earlier episode, the Pugsters talked about Tolkien’s ideas of the value of pagan myth and the need to Christianize it. In this episode, Glenn p…
4 years, 9 months ago
Individualisms: Which Sort of Individual are You?
Season 3 Episode 112
In today's show, Chris introduces an important study of individualism that was published back in 1985 by Robert Bellah and a team of sociologists, en…
4 years, 9 months ago