In today’s episode, my friend Kale and I reflect on paragraphs 16 through 23 of Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical letter on hope, which asks the question: How has the concept of Christian hope been transformed in the modern age? More specifically, how has modernity reappropriated the concepts of faith and hope in the service of secular goals?
Show notes/resources:
Tracy Chapman, “Heaven’s Here on Earth“, New Beginning
Francis Bacon, Novum Organum
The Tower of Babel, Genesis 11 (RSVCE)
G.W.F. Hegel’s dialectical method of argument
Saint John Henry Cardinal Newman, The Idea of a University, Discourse 3: Bearing of Theology on other Branches of Knowledge
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The music in the introduction and close of this podcast is provided by Dennis Crommett.