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The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

WOF 113: Recapping the William Lane Craig Dialogue

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2018

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

On January 13, 2018, Bishop Barron joined Dr. William Lane Craig, the esteemed Protestant apologist, for an evening of dialogue at Claremont McKenna College. On today's episode, we recap both the afternoon session, which was an academic symposium attended by a couple dozen scholars, and the big evening dialogue in which Bishop Barron and Dr. Craig discussed faith, science, secularism, evangelization and more. A listener asks what Bishop Barron thinks of David Bentley Hart's work.

Click here to watch the full dialogue between Bishop Barron and Dr. Craig, and to listen to the afternoon symposium >> http://wordonfireshow.com/wlc

BONUS: Click here to get your free Lent Reflections booklet from Bishop Barron!

Topics Discussed

  • 0:04 - Intro, Why is Bishop Barron in Philadelphia?
  • 1:30 - What was Bishop Barron's overall impression of the event with Dr. William Lane Craig?
  • 6:4o - What was discussed during the daytime symposium?
  • 16:25 - During the evening event, how did Bishop Barron and Dr. Craig agree about evangelization?
  • 19:03 - What are Bishop Barron and Dr. Craig's favorite arguments for the existence of God?
  • 21:40 - How did a book change the lives of both Dr. Craig and Bishop Barron?
  • 23:25 - Why didn't Dr. Craig agree that beauty can be a source of evangelization?
  • 29:00 - What happened when Bishop Barron asked Dr. Craig, "Why aren't you Catholic?"
  • 33:00 - Listener Question: What does Bishop Barron think about the writings of David Bentley Hart?

Bonus Resources

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Word on Fire show.

0:06.5

I'm Brandon Vott, the host, and the content director at Word on Fire.

0:10.7

Today, we are with Bishop Robert Barron.

0:13.2

Bishop Barron, you are in Philadelphia, aren't you?

0:15.5

Welcome.

0:16.5

I'm in Philadelphia, Brandon.

0:18.0

We're on the same coast for once, you know.

0:20.7

Usually when you and I talk, we're all the way across the country, but at least I'm a little closer to you know. And what are you there for? I'm here for the Cardinal Foley Lecture, which is a lecture at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia. And I was invited a long time ago by Bishop Tim Sr., who is the rector there, and also an auxiliary bishop in Philly.

0:42.0

And then Archbishop Shephew, of course, the Archbishop here, put some pressure on me to come and give this talk, which I'm happy to do.

0:49.1

But it meant, you know, is flying across the country, which is always a little bit trying.

0:53.5

I know you kind of have come down with a cold there, haven't you? Yeah, maybe you hear it. I've got a little cough drop in my mouth too. You might hear it clicking around because, yeah, I came down with something a couple days ago, and I was really sick. But I'm feeling much better now by just still all congested, you know. I want to make sure my voice hangs in there until tonight. Well, we're planning to live stream the talk tonight. So by the time this episode

1:16.2

of the podcast goes live, the event will be in the past. But you can watch the recap of

1:21.0

this talk. So we'll make sure to have a link here on the podcast episode. Today, though,

1:26.0

we're going to be discussing a recent event that was

1:29.1

long hyped, long anticipated. It was a dialogue between you and William Lang Craig. Craig is one of the

1:38.1

most popular Protestant apologists and debaters. He's probably best known for traveling the country, visiting college campuses,

1:46.1

and debating prominent skeptics, atheists, and scientists. And so the Claremont College out there in

1:53.4

California wanted to set up this event 500 years after the beginning of the Reformation, which

1:59.1

brought together, again, arguably the best

2:01.5

Protestant apologist with you, who many would probably consider one of the great Catholic

2:07.3

apologists and evangelists. The day was sort of split up into two segments. The first segment

2:13.4

was an afternoon symposium. Lasted about three hours. I think there's probably about 20 or 25 scholars in the room.

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