WOF 222: Gnosticism, the Enduring Heresy

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 9 March 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Gnosticism was one of the earliest heresies of the Church, and it remains among the most enduring. With an emphasis on special knowledge acquired only by a small group of enlightened elites, as well as a sharp division between spirit and matter, with spiritual things being good and material things being evil, Gnosticism still thrives today everywhere from crack conspiracy theories to Hollywood movies to our culture of self-invention. Bishop Barron discusses Gnosticism and why it ultimately fails to satisfy.

A listener asks Bishop to help her understand the resurrection of the body.

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0:00.0	The perceptive person will see overtones of platenism.
0:03.3	You know, there's something of Plato's anthropology of imprisonment
0:07.5	that the soul is as it were imprisoned in the body.
0:11.5	And the idea is a prison break.
0:21.9	Welcome back to the Word on Fire show.
0:24.4	I am Brandon Vott. I'm the content director here at Word on Fire.
0:28.2	And we're joined by the great Bishop Robert Barron.
0:31.3	Bishop Barron, good to see you.
0:32.6	Brandon, always a joy to be with you.
0:35.2	You are fresh off of your annual visit
0:38.4	to the arts dioceses of Los Angeles's religious education
0:43.0	congress.
0:44.2	All the bishops of Los Angeles attend that each year.
0:47.2	But you were invited to give a talk to the whole crowd
0:51.2	in the main arena.
0:52.7	What did you choose to speak on why and how did it go?
0:55.8	Yeah, you know, I had something else I was going to talk about.
0:57.9	I frankly forget what it was.
0:59.2	But many months ago now when that Pew-Form study came out
1:02.1	that said 70, 70% of Catholics don't believe
1:06.7	in the real presence of Jesus.
1:08.4	I called my assistant and said, call the Congress right now
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