WOF 453: Nature & the Human Body—Recapping Wonder 2024

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🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The nature and purpose of the human body was once considered obvious. But it has come under attack from secular culture in some strange and even disturbing ways in recent years. Now, unfortunately, it is up for grabs. The Word on Fire Institute sought to address this confusion surrounding the body at our recent Wonder Conference, “Nature and the Human Body.” Drawing on rich theological, philosophical, scientific, medical, moral, political, technological, and artistic resources, the conference sought to reclaim an authentic understanding and deep appreciation for the body—its resilience and fragility, its joys and its sufferings, its transcendence and its temporality, and, above all, its wonder.

A listener asks how Catholics should think about near-death experiences and stories.

00:00 | Intro
01:23 | Hosting the Wonder Conference in Bishop Barron’s own diocese
02:25 | Why we needed Wonder
03:50 | Understanding the false dichotomy of faith and science
06:20 | Addressing the question of body/soul unity
12:38 | Inherent dangers in dividing body and soul
15:36 | Can Catholic ministries give platforms to evolutionary biologists?
17:11 | Highlights from Dr. Heather Heying’s Wonder talk
18:45 | Beginning with the logos and intelligibility
20:04 | The human difference
21:04 | Bishop Barron Presents: liturgical artist Jonathan Pageau
23:06 | Materialism as an incoherent philosophy vs. scientific worldview
26:30 | The intelligibility of creation
27:36 | Fr. Robert Spitzer and the transcendent body
33:46 | Hope for reconciling faith and science in the public square
35:16 | Listener question
37:54 | Join the Word on Fire Institute

Links:

Interview with Selmer Bringsjord: https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/selmer-bringsjord-on-life-and-logic/
Interview with Charles Camosy: https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/charles-camosy-sounds-the-alarm/
Word on Fire Institute: https://institute.wordonfire.org/

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Matthew Petrucick, Senior Director of the Word on Fire Institute and the host of the Word on Fire Show.
0:06.0	Thank you for joining us. The human body has come under attack from secular culture in some strange and even disturbing ways in recent years.
0:14.8	The nature and purpose of the body, female, and male was once considered obvious.
0:20.9	Now unfortunately it is up for grabs, a sad reality we saw play out in some
0:25.4	events in the 2024 Summer Olympics. The Word on Fire Institute sought to address
0:30.8	this confusion surrounding the body in our recent Wonder Conference, Nature,
0:35.8	and the Human Body.
0:37.3	Drawing on rich theological, philosophical, scientific, medical, moral, political, technological, and artistic resources, the conference sought to reclaim
0:45.9	an authentic understanding of and deep appreciation for the body, for its
0:55.0	forgility, joys and suffering, its transcendence and its temporality,
0:57.0	and above all, its wonder.
0:59.0	Here to discuss the ongoing significance of the theme of this year's Wonder Conference is Bishop Robert Baron. the Welcome back to the studio Bishop.
1:17.0	I was going to be with you, mad.
1:19.0	So today's topic we're going to be recapping the Wonder 2024 conference, before we do just speak to us a little
1:25.2	bit about the significance for you of being able to have the conference in your
1:28.7	own diocese yeah I've very pleased about that the first one was in Dallas
1:32.1	wasn't about a year and a half ago.
1:34.1	And then we thought, well, yes, to make it easier for me, I suppose, as part of the thinking,
1:38.0	you know, I wouldn't have to take another trip.
1:40.3	But, you know, Rochester, Minnesota is a great scientific city
1:43.9	because you've got arguably the most important medical center
1:47.0	on the planet right here in this city.
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