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The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

WOF 082: Living as the Image of God (Part 2)

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 3 July 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In 2015 Bishop Robert Barron gave the opening keynote speech at the famous World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia. In front of this massive crowd of Catholics, Bishop Barron explained how Christianity is the greatest form of humanism because of its unique claim that all humans are made in the image and likeness of God. As representatives of God, we share in the responsibility of bringing the power, wisdom, heart, and mind of God out into the world. This episode of the Word on Fire Show features Part Two of the Bishop's powerful talk.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vot, the host. It's good to be with you again.

0:08.8

This week we're going to continue the episode we started last week, which was a talk that Bishop

0:14.4

Baron gave in 2015 at the World Meeting of Families. It's titled Living as the Image of God.

0:21.2

In this talk, Bishop Baron shows how the Amago Day, the image of God, is not just a privilege

0:27.4

in which we delight. It's a mission, which we are called to undertake. We're not just happy

0:32.9

that we were made in God's image and likeness, but it's a summons to live in a particularly

0:38.0

missional way. So sit back and enjoy the second half of this talk titled Living as the Image of God.

0:44.4

And next week we'll be back in the studio with Bishop Baron. Enjoy the episode.

0:49.0

You think all that's a philosophical abstraction? Well, look at Casey versus Plan Paranogue.

1:00.9

Remember the US Supreme Court in 1992? Where our Supreme Court said it belongs to the very nature of liberty

1:08.2

to determine the meaning of my life, of existence and of the universe. I'm not making it up.

1:15.4

That's the language of the Supreme Court. It belongs to my freedom to determine the meaning of the

1:20.0

universe. Oh, that's all, huh? I can just just the universe. See, but that's ininical to the Bible.

1:29.5

That's the opposite of cataloging. That's an imposition of my own subjective whim on reality.

1:40.5

You know what this is very closely related to everybody. And I think one of the great insights

1:44.4

in the last 25 or 30 years by the great Dominican moral theologian, Survey Pinkhares wrote a

1:51.2

wonderful book called The Sources of Christian Ethics. In that book he makes a distinction between

1:57.6

two types of freedom, the freedom of indifference and the freedom for excellence and so much hinges

2:07.1

upon this. What's the freedom of indifference? It's the view of freedom that characterizes much

2:15.0

of the modern world. It means freedom hovers above the yes and the no. And on the basis of no

2:25.1

compulsion, exterior or interior, it decides. I'm free in the measure that I can decide who I will

2:33.7

be and what I will do. I'm not reading a freedom. Law is always a problem. Law is an imposition.

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