WOF 339: The Dangers of Self-Determination

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

God, Vogt, Catholicism, Catholic, Faith, Christianity, Barron, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Church

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🗓️ 20 June 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Friends, our culture is obsessed with self-determination: finding our own voice, setting our own agenda, doing things according to our own lights. But is this problematic? And what does the Bible have to say about self-determination?

On today’s episode of “The Word on Fire Show,” Brandon Vogt and I discuss how, in the Christian tradition, heroes are never those who “find themselves,” but rather those who heed the voice of God and remain obedient to the mission that God has given them.

A listener asks, how do you possibly balance a passion for baseball with your faith life?

Links

“Why Doing What Is Right in Your Own Sight Is Such a Bad Idea” by Bishop Barron
The New Apologetics: Defending the Faith in a Post-Christian Era edited by Matt Nelson

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Transcript

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0:00.0	If I'm friends with God, I'm in the proper relationship.
0:03.5	I found the Theanomus, God is the norm of my life.
0:13.7	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show.
0:16.0	I'm Brandon Vat, the Senior Publishing Director at Word on Fire.
0:19.7	Our culture is obsessed with self-determination,
0:23.3	finding our own voice, setting our own agenda,
0:26.0	doing things according to our own lights.
0:28.9	But is this problematic?
0:30.4	And what does the Bible have to say about this path of self-determination?
0:34.7	That's what we're discussing today,
0:36.0	and we're discussing it with Bishop Robert Barron.
0:38.4	Bishop, good to see you.
0:40.5	Hey, Brandon.
0:41.2	Always a joy to be with you.
0:42.7	A couple of interesting conversations you've had lately.
0:45.9	The first one is with a young man named Lex Friedman.
0:50.3	Not sure if he's a household name for all of our listeners here,
0:53.0	but he's a huge deal in the world of YouTube and podcasting.
0:57.1	Tell us about him and how this discussion went.
1:00.9	Yeah, I love that conversation.
1:02.0	Lex is a professor at MIT and my nephew,
1:04.7	and he's just graduated from MIT.
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