#397 – Overcoming Old Testament Anxiety Syndrome (with John Bergsma)

The Counsel of Trent

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Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Do you feel apprehension about sitting down to read the Old Testament? Franciscan University professor John Bergsma explains why we often feel that way and how we can overcome “Old Testament Anxiety Syndrome”.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.
0:10.5	About a month ago, I got to do two really fun things.
0:13.6	First, I got to interview John Bergsmah, who is an Old Testament scholar.
0:17.6	He's a biblical scholar, but he specializes in the Old Testament at the Franciscan University
0:22.2	of Stubanville.
0:23.2	But number two, I was able to interview him at a priest conference where I got to take
0:28.2	my five-year-old son Matthew for our very first father, son, overnight road trip.
0:34.6	Super fun.
0:35.6	I'll tell you all about it right now on the Council of Trend Podcast.
0:39.3	Welcome to the podcast.
0:40.3	I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.
0:44.3	And some friends of ours who were hosting that conference as part of the Napa Institute
0:48.8	cooperating with the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology.
0:52.7	They wanted to visit us up here in Dallas before going down to Austin for the conference,
0:57.2	but they weren't able to come through Dallas.
0:58.8	And so they invited us to come and see them.
1:01.2	And so I decided to take Matthew and do our first father, son road trip.
1:07.5	So we drove down there.
1:09.3	We got fast food on the way.
1:11.3	I just got to hang out and talk with them.
1:13.0	We were at the conference.
1:14.0	He got to meet a ton of priests and religious and Dr. Scott Hahn and John Bergsmah.
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