Guilt! Sin! Cheesy TV Movies! This episode has something for everyone. First, we share our pop culture “guilty pleasures,” exploring Brian and Jon’s questionable musical choices (past and present!), Ryan’s Star Wars fandom, and the guiltiest of all pleasures: Hallmark Christmas Movies. The ensuing chaos segues fittingly into shared reflections on the surds of sin, evil, and decline. We discuss the connections and divergences between medieval terminology, contemporary relational anthropologies, and our own linguistic baggage, and then work toward a framework for analyzing sin on the level of our time. Robyn shares her Treasures Old and New, and then we say goodbye.

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TITLES NAMED IN MAIN SEGMENT

Alison, James. The Joy of Being Wrong: Original Sin Through Easter Eyes. New York: Crossroad, 1998.

All referenced passages from Thomas’ Summa Theologiae are available in both Latin and English at https://dhspriory.org/thomas/summa/index.html

Thomas Aquinas. On Evil. Edited by Brian Davies. Translated by Richard Regan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.

Augustine. City of God. Translated by Henry Bettenson. Revised Edition. London: Penguin Classics, 2003.

Davies, Brian. The Reality of God and the Problem of Evil. London: Continuum, 2006.

Doran, Robert M. The Trinity in History: A Theology of the Divine Missions, Volume 1: Missions and Processions. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.

Kaplan, Grant. René Girard, Unlikely Apologist: Mimetic Theory and Fundamental Theology. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016.

Lonergan, Bernard J. F. The Incarnate Word. Edited by Robert M. Doran, Charles Hefling, and Jeremy D. Wilkins. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 8. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2016.

Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Insight: A Study of Human Understanding. Edited by Frederick E. Crowe and Robert M. Doran. 5th Edition. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 3. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992.

Lonergan, Bernard J.F. Method in Theology. Edited by Robert M. Doran and John D. Dadosky. Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan, Volume 14. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.

“TREASURES OLD AND NEW”

Pelikan, Jaroslav. The Illustrated Jesus Through the Centuries. Illustrated Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

Pelikan, Jaroslav. Jesus Through the Centuries: His Place in the History of Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

Richard of St. Victor. On the Trinity: English Translation and Commentary. Translated by Angelici Ruben. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2011.

Our theme music is “14 Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails, available at https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV

“14 Ghosts II” is used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. We would like to thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the use of this track.

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