Oh Israel, Hope in the Lord
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2023
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
If faith is the substance of things hoped for, what is hope? Reaching back into Jewish history and the Hebrew Bible, Spencer explains the gritty determination that saves us from despair in the valley of the shadow of death. As war rages in modern Israel after a savage terrorist attack by Hamas, it becomes as urgent as it's ever been to know where hope can reside securely in a darkened world.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh Israel, hope in the Lord, for with the Lord is unfailing love and with him is full redemption. Right, we are talking today about Hope. Welcome back to Young Heretics, where we've been on a several week long series about the theological virtues. |
| 0:27.0 | A while back many moons ago now we started a series on the Cardinal Virtues which are the four core moral virtues |
| 0:34.8 | that we get from the pagan tradition the Greco-Roman philosophical tradition |
| 0:38.2 | they are moderation justice wisdom courage. And then after that, as I said, we have moved on to the |
| 0:47.8 | theological virtues which are the virtues that you can't derive just from human resources. It's not enough. You can't think your way to these. |
| 0:57.0 | You can't gain them on your own just through effort. There is a distance between us and what we would fully define as flourishing and the good life. |
| 1:06.5 | At least that's the claim of the Christian tradition and that's why Christianity recognizes three extra virtues, the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love, |
| 1:16.5 | without which we cannot truly meet our spiritual ends, if we meet our earthly purposes, our earthly ends through our cardinal virtues, then our spiritual ends are met through faith, hope, and love, and we can't get those without some kind of help from outside. |
| 1:33.0 | So I've been talking about why that is. |
| 1:34.8 | We did two weeks on Faith. |
| 1:36.8 | Now we're moving on to Hope. |
| 1:39.8 | And when I talked about Faith, I realized |
| 1:42.4 | as I was looking back, we talked almost exclusively |
| 1:45.5 | about the Greek language and about Christianity. |
| 1:49.2 | That is, I was in the New Testament. |
| 1:51.0 | I was reading to you from some of the church fathers and some of the letters |
| 1:54.9 | the Pauline Epistles and I was translating the Greek of the New Testament and talking about |
| 2:00.3 | sort of the philosophical implications of that. but I didn't really go back into what we would |
| 2:05.5 | call the Old Testament, that is the Hebrew Bible, the Jewish Bible and the Jewish scriptures, |
| 2:11.1 | and partly that's because Christianity defines itself |
| 2:16.1 | by a new relationship I think to faith a new relationship between faith and |
| 2:21.4 | works a new way of understanding the relationship |
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