Thomas Howard (Encore)
The Eric Metaxas Show
Metaxas Media
4.7 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
In this special presentation from Socrates in the City, Eric goes to Boston to talk with scholar Thomas Howard about the questions explored in "Chance or the Dance," the book Eric considers one of the greatest of the 20th century. (Encore)
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| 0:30.3 | Ladies and gentlemen, we ask you now to count down from 10, silently, if you don't mind. |
| 0:36.3 | And when you get to one, you'll hear one of the greatest voices on this or any other planet. |
| 0:41.3 | Three, two, one. Eric Mattaxas! Hey folks, it's Eric Mattaxas, and I believe each one of us is unique and irreplaceable. |
| 0:47.3 | And while I believe that is true, if you've got an hour-long TV program like I do, |
| 0:51.3 | I can tell you the host may be irreplaceable, but the time slot is not. |
| 0:56.0 | And this is my Socrates in the city conversation with the great Tom Howard at his home. |
| 1:00.7 | Do not miss it. |
| 1:02.0 | Hey there. |
| 1:02.9 | I'm Eric Metaxus. |
| 1:03.8 | This is Socrates in the city. |
| 1:05.6 | We are in a private home. |
| 1:07.1 | This is the home of Tom and Loveless Howard. |
| 1:10.5 | Thomas Howard is someone whose books I had the |
| 1:14.7 | privilege to encounter around 1989, shortly after I had my own conversion to fate. Somebody suggested |
| 1:21.8 | that I must read this book by Thomas Howard. And I read the book, and it changed my life. He calls the book |
| 1:28.5 | Chance or the Dance a critique of modern secularism, but it really puts the medieval |
| 1:33.5 | Christian worldview against the modern secularist idea of the world, but in a way that I've |
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