WOF 274: Knocking Holes in the Buffered Self (Part 1 of 2)

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🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Today we share the first half of Bishop Baron's talk titled "Knocking Holes in the Buffered Self: Approaches to the Question of God." He gave the talk at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary as part of their Kenrick Lecture series.

Many—especially the young—in today’s time have absented themselves from the practice of faith. Our culture and time is anomalous in the extreme, in that it’s the first ever to widely entertain God’s nonexistence. Christians, at least in the West, are facing a practically unprecedented crisis of disaffiliation. But there are paths out of the cave, and that's what Bishop Barron reveals.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vat, the host and the content director
0:10.8	here at Word on Fire. We have something special for you today. It is another lecture from
0:16.5	Bishop Baron. This is one he recently gave at Kinric Glenin Seminary. It was part of
0:23.0	the Kinric Lecture series. And Bishop Baron gave a talk titled, Knocking Holes and the
0:28.4	Buffered Self, Approaches to the Questions of God. We're going to listen to the first half of
0:34.0	the talk today, which focuses on this concept of the Buffered Self, which gets its name from Charles
0:39.5	Taylor, the great Catholic philosopher. The Buffered Self refers to someone who's cut off from the
0:45.0	transcendent, someone who has become disenchanted with the cosmos and is generally ambivalent or indifferent
0:52.5	to supernatural things. It has many manifestations in our culture, including things like science,
0:58.3	antism, materialism, our culture of self-invention. But the question for us is, how do we help someone
1:05.0	escape this Buffered Self? How do we engage in the hard work of soul-doctoring, expanding their
1:11.8	mind and their soul to the possibility of God? That's what Bishop Baron focuses on in this lecture.
1:17.7	It's about an hour, hour and fifteen minutes, and again, we're going to share the first half
1:21.9	with you today, and then in a couple weeks we'll share the second half. Before we do, though,
1:27.0	I wanted to tell you about yet another exciting book from Word on Fire. This one, for many of us
1:33.2	here, is kind of the pinnacle publication of the New Year. We've been working on it for many,
1:38.1	many months. It's titled The Word on Fire Vatican II Collection. The Word on Fire Vatican II Collection.
1:46.0	We're just announcing it today. You can learn more at the website, wordonfire.org-vaticantoo.
1:53.0	Wordonfire.org-vaticantoo. This book is a gorgeous, deluxe, hardcover volume that includes the four
2:01.8	major constitutions from the Second Vatican Council. So, Vatican II, the Second Vatican Council,
2:08.4	featured sixteen final documents. But these four are the most important, the most central,
2:14.7	if you will, for understanding what Vatican II was all about. There's lots of debate and
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