If you are a strict determinist and you don't believe in free will, you have zero business

praising anybody for moral excellence or blaming anybody for moral wickedness.

There isn't anything like moral wickedness really. So you have to say

it seems to me you can't condemn Hitler. Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vot, the host and the senior publishing director at Word on Fire.

Can everything in the world be reduced to atoms bumping against each other and chemical

reactions in our brains.

Or is there something more to reality than its material elements?

Well, a new book argues that there is more,

and that's what we'll be discussing today with Bishop Beren who joins us from

Rochester Bishop good to see you. Hey Brandon always a joy to see you. I was just

with you for the last three days I got him last night but we we were in Rochester, your diocese there, for an extraordinary

conference called the New Resourcemont Conference, which Wirt on Fire Academic hosted.

Tell us about that.

We're launching a new journal called the new race or similar.

And people that have followed me know that as you survey

the different theological movements

over the past many years, I kind of tend in this direction

of what's called Classically the Race Sort of Somal or the going back to the sources movement.

Think of Delubach, think of Donnie Lue, think of Baltazar, think of Rotzinger, think of Voitiwah, all those people from the mid-20th century who impacted Vatican

2 in a big way. Think of the catacism of 92 is very much influenced by the

resourced of all. Sometimes call the new velte deologie, the new theology. It was

new back in the 50s. Well I think I think what's needful today is a kind of new resource

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