WOF 317: Faith, Science, and Sin
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
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🗓️ 3 January 2022
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Today we share a sample from our new Word on Fire Institute course titled "Faith, Science, and Sin" taught by Dr. Christopher Baglow.
Dr. Baglow considers the mysteries of the Catholic faith in dialogue with scientific discoveries, allowing us to avoid the shallowness that John Paul II says debases the Gospel and leaves us ashamed before history.
This course introduces us to some of the richest insights of the Catholic intellectual tradition. We confront the problem of evil amidst God’s good creation and consider these fundamental questions: What makes being human so special? How might modern science become a stepping-stone rather than a stumbling block to understanding what we believe?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm Brandon Vot, the senior publishing director |
| 0:10.2 | at Word on Fire. Today we're excited to share with you a sample lesson from our brand |
| 0:15.4 | new course inside the Word on Fire Institute. The course is titled Faith, Science, and Sin. |
| 0:22.3 | And it's taught by Dr. Christopher Baglow. Chris Baglow is the director of the Science |
| 0:27.3 | and Religion Initiative of the MacGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre-Dame. |
| 0:34.0 | He's one of the leading writers on topics concerning faith and science, including the second |
| 0:39.6 | edition of his textbook, which is titled Faith, Science, and Reason, Theology on the Cutting |
| 0:44.9 | Edge. But in this course, Chris looks at the mysteries of the Catholic faith in dialogue |
| 0:51.0 | with scientific discoveries, focusing especially on sin and the problem of evil. His course |
| 0:57.9 | is Seven Lessons Long. And if you join the Word on Fire Institute, you can access the |
| 1:02.9 | first couple lessons, which are available right now. The other ones are rolling out over |
| 1:07.2 | the next few weeks here. Today we're going to hear lesson number one, which is titled Love |
| 1:12.3 | is the Reason, Understanding the Christian Doctrine of Creation. Why did God create the universe? |
| 1:20.5 | Why did He do it? Did He need to do it? No, says Dr. Baglow. He did it out of love. Contrary |
| 1:26.7 | to atheists and materialists, beliefs, Christians believe that everything exists because of God's |
| 1:32.4 | inexhaustible, merciful love. He did not need to create, but He did so out of love to show |
| 1:38.3 | us the foundation and deepest meaning of all things. If you like this lesson and you want |
| 1:44.2 | all the other lessons in this great course, sign up for the Word on Fire Institute. You |
| 1:48.9 | can do that at the website wordonfire.institute. This is just one of several dozen courses that |
| 1:55.1 | are available to you inside the institute taught by some of the brightest theologians, philosophers |
| 2:00.9 | and evangelists in the Catholic world. So sign up at wordonfire.institute. But for now, |
| 2:07.3 | enjoy lesson number one in Dr. Christopher Baglow's course titled Faith, Science and Sin. |
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