WOF 102: Affirmative Orthodoxy

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🗓️ 20 November 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Today we continue our discussion of the eight principles of the Word on Fire Movement by focusing on the fifth principle, "Affirmative Orthodoxy." This term, originating with John Allen, Jr., refers to a positive presentation of what the Church teaches, an emphasis on the Catholic "Yes!" more than a finger-wagging "No!" A listen asks how we concretely love people in difficult situations.

Topics Discussed

0:05 - Introduction and the Erasmus lecture
3:00 - What is Affirmative Orthodoxy?
6:30 - Why is Affirmative Orthodoxy important to evangelization?
8:30 - G.K. Chesterton's adventurous orthodoxy
11:30 - How do we frame Affirmative Orthodoxy around modern sexual morality?
16:30 - How is it possible to maintain Affirmative Orthodoxy during a debate?
19:30 - What are some good Affirmative Orthodoxy strategies?
20:45 - How can we concretely love people in difficult situations?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm your host for this episode. Jared Zimmer, the director
0:07.6	of Outreach and Mission here at Word on Fire. And as always, a warm welcome to my good friend,
0:13.1	Bishop Robert Barron. Bishop, it's good to be with you again. Hey Jared, thanks. Always great
0:17.2	to be with you. All right, so listen, you know, recently you were able to give a speech at the
0:23.7	Erasmus lecture in New York City. And while you were there, you actually also got to visit the
0:28.4	shrine of one of our heroes at Word on Fire and one of your personal heroes as well, is
0:34.0	Venerable Fulton Sheen. Can you fill us in a little bit about what the lecture was about? And
0:39.4	and of course, your visit as well to go see Sheen's shrine. Yeah, it's always a joy for me to go
0:45.5	to New York City. I always love it. I'm not sure I want to live in New York, but I love visiting
0:50.4	New York. It's great energy, you know, and excitement. I was there as you say for the Erasmus
0:56.0	lecture, which is sponsored by First Things of magazine. And I was delighted to be asked to give
1:01.7	that lecture. So I gave this talk at the Union League Club in Midtown Manhattan in about
1:07.3	0450 people came. And a lot of very prominent folks and all very interested in the church,
1:13.8	and I gave this lecture on the nuns, this is probably the N-O-N-E-S, right? All the people today,
1:20.0	especially among the young who are fleeing of the churches. And I propose several paths,
1:25.1	how we can get the nuns to come back. But it's very exciting to give that talk, but then a nice
1:29.6	feature of the Erasmus lecture is the next day, also at the club there, I gathered with about
1:36.0	35 scholars and teachers and church people to discuss the lecture. So they had all gotten advanced.
1:44.5	copies of it, they had heard me deliver and we had hours nine to three with a brief little lunch break
1:52.4	analyzing the paper. And that was a thrill. I said it was a bit like my doctoral defense
1:58.4	years ago, but without the same level of pressure. I wasn't going to be refused my degree or something.
2:05.4	But still, here's some pretty high-powered people. There's Robert Royal and George Wigel and
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