Why modern definitions of religion get Christianity wrong?

Joe Heschmeier is next.

Hello, and welcome to Focus the Catholic Cancer's podcast for living

understanding and defending your Catholic faith.

I'm Si Killett, your host.

And one of the things we might have to defend our Catholic faith against

is the average ordinary everyday university world religions course.

It's in those world religions courses that people are getting

wrong idea in many cases about Catholicism as a religion.

So we talked to Joe Heschmeier about how to define religion and what to do

about the loss of faith that sometimes comes with the idea of world religions.

Here's what Joe had to say.

Joe Heschmeier, author of the early church was the Catholic church.

Thank you for being here with us.

Great to be here, Si.

It is often said that Christianity is one of the world religions.

Yeah, and that's a complicated question and a complicated claim even what we mean by world

religions.

So you have a course for the Catholic Cancer School of Apologetics on just this topic.

So we wanted to kind of get you and ask you about the concept of religion, really.

Yeah, it turns out it's a surprisingly difficult question to say what is a world religion?

Or for that matter, just what is a religion?

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