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#412 Twisting the Definition of “Religion” - Joe Heschmeyer

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Who gets to say what a religion is, and why do “World Religions” classes so often fail in their approach to Christian Faith? Joe Heschmeyer, author of The Early Church Was the Catholic Church, explores the politics around the word “religion.” Cy Kellett: Why modern definitions of religion get Christianity wrong. Joe Heschmeyer is next. Cy Kellett: Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answer’s podcast for living, understanding and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett your host and one of the things we might have to defend our Catholic faith agai…

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Why modern definitions of religion get Christianity wrong?

0:04.3

Joe Heschmeier is next.

0:10.7

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

0:13.9

understanding and defending your Catholic faith.

0:16.2

I'm Si Killett, your host.

0:17.6

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

0:21.6

is the average ordinary everyday university world religions course.

0:26.6

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

0:29.6

wrong idea in many cases about Catholicism as a religion.

0:34.0

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

0:38.0

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

0:42.9

Here's what Joe had to say.

0:51.6

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

0:54.0

Thank you for being here with us.

0:55.2

Great to be here, Si.

0:56.8

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

1:00.6

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

1:04.7

religions.

1:05.4

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

1:10.1

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

1:15.2

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

1:20.4

Or for that matter, just what is a religion?

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