Why You Should Read Old Books
Thinking Fellows
1517 Podcasts
4.8 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2022
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
The Thinking Fellows make a case for reading old books. Why should you read both pre-modern and ancient works of literature, philosophy, history, and theology? Because reading g and thinking through these works can help inform your decisions and opinions today in a manner that allows you more competently fulfill your vocations and needs in this life.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there and welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast. |
| 0:21.6 | My name is Caleb, and I am joined by my father, Dr. Sky Keith, and by Dr. Adam Francisco, to record the first episode in a series that we're going to call Why You Should, and we're just going to tell people a bunch of stuff they should do. |
| 0:37.1 | We're going to be real bossy. Yeah. We're going to be real bossy. |
| 0:38.2 | Yeah, we're going to be real bossy. |
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| 0:56.2 | conferences, preaching helps, and a whole lot more. |
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| 1:05.1 | if you enjoy the thinking fellows. |
| 1:07.8 | Okay, guys, first episode of why you should. |
| 1:11.3 | I briefly introduced this at the end of last week as sort of a way that we could |
| 1:18.2 | creatively revisit topics that we've done before, that we can start rotating in some guests |
| 1:24.7 | from the fellowship and from other people and places that we know. |
| 1:30.5 | But for this first one, I thought I would give us some low-hanging fruit to try this out. |
| 1:37.5 | And it's, I mean, it's briefly kind of related to the Lewis. |
| 1:40.9 | It comes off the Lewis stuff well, I think. |
| 1:43.6 | So today we are going to do an episode called Why You Should Read Old Books. |
| 1:49.9 | And I think the best way to start this off is to answer the question, what is an old book? |
| 1:56.4 | What makes a book old versus a new book or not a book? |
| 2:00.5 | Yeah, Lewis's entire library, probably considered old books now, right? |
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