The Age of Information: Orthodoxy & The Modern World

We break down Russ Manion's paper, "The Contingency of Knowledge and Revelatory Theism".

What is truth? Is there a such thing as objective reality? How would we know? These questions have been debated by philosophers for millenia, and yet there still appear to be no answers backed by science itself. So can we believe anything that anyone says? How can we trust anything?

Manion describes our world as it is seen by materialists, atheists, and empiricists, and demonstrates how on their own presuppositions, reality itself devolves into meaninglessness. The rescue from this abysmal state of utter despair and destruction is God, Himself. Without God as He has revealed Himself to us, we cannot even make coherent sentences, let alone believe that what we call "reality" is in any way actually real.

Paper here:

https://www.patristicfaith.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/The_Contingency_of_Knowledge_and_Revelatory_Theism.pdf

Today we touch on the thoughts of neo-Calvinist Herman Dooyeweerd, and tie in the Sacred Orthodox Tradition of Phillip Sherrard.

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Links to www content:

https://isi.org/intercollegiate-review/philosophy-of-the-cosmonimic-idea-herman-dooyeweerds-political-and-legal-thought/

Ground Motives : https://www.dooy.info/ground.motives.html

https://www.orth-transfiguration.org/resources/library/writings-of-the-saints/philip-sherrard-1922-1995/

https://orthodoxwiki.org/Philip_Sherrard

The Didache (did-a-key), Διδαχή, or The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles, is an early Christian text that most scholars date to the first or early second century. The Didache was highly regarded by many early Christian authors and theologians. Athanasius of Alexandria (†373) recommended it to converts, and it had a great influence on the Apostolic Constitutions (375). Before the New Testament canon was formally settled in 692, a number of Biblical canonsincluded the Didache; John of Damascus (†749) was also a noted supporter.

The text disappeared and was lost for centuries, until it was rediscovered in 1873 by Philotheos Bryennios, Metropolitan of Nicomedia. Today it is usually included among the second-generation Christian writings known as the Apostolic Fathers.

Link to the read text: https://legacyicons.com/content/didache.pdf

Books: https://www.amazon.com/Apostolic-Fathers-English-Michael-Holmes/dp/0801031087

https://www.amazon.com/Apostolic-Fathers-Translation-Lexham-Classics/dp/1683590643/ref=pd_lpo_sccl_1/132-5016306-6504264?pd_rd_w=6yMLO&content-id=amzn1.sym.1ad2066f-97d2-4731-9356-36b3edf1ae04&pf_rd_p=1ad2066f-97d2-4731-9356-36b3edf1ae04&pf_rd_r=6FYZ5JPMDE6CXHNFQX78&pd_rd_wg=mTkBz&pd_rd_r=5b87c991-fda2-4815-bc8c-cd5ff7ced936&pd_rd_i=1683590643&psc=1

 https://www.amazon.com/Apostolic-Fathers-Greek-English-Translations/dp/080103468X/ref=pd_lpo_sccl_2/132-5016306-6504264?pd_rd_w=6yMLO&content-id=amzn1.sym.1ad2066f-97d2-4731-9356-36b3edf1ae04&pf_rd_p=1ad2066f-97d2-4731-9356-36b3edf1ae04&pf_rd_r=6FYZ5JPMDE6CXHNFQX78&pd_rd_wg=mTkBz&pd_rd_r=5b87c991-fda2-4815-bc8c-cd5ff7ced936&pd_rd_i=080103468X&psc=1

Ross Twele is a doctoral candidate at The Catholic University of America, and the Director of Evangelization for Holy Family Catholic Church in North Carolina. His work is focused on the early Church, early Patristics, specifically in the translations of Hilary of Poitiers and the Ecumenical Councils.

Check him out here:

https://twitter.com/RossTwele

 https://sketchesofchrist.wordpress.com/

Today we jump into a few pages of Father Andrew Stephen Damick's book. We're going to dissect what makes Orthodox Christianity True, what makes other beliefs UnTrue, and delve into what is truth, anyway??

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Today we finish up the first book of Fr. John Strickland's series. We tie up some loose ecumenical council ends, discuss briefly the Muscovite-Kievan Christian conversion, and knot the bow on the Roman papism to close out the first millenium Let me know what you think!

Nick and Jeremy from the Cloud of Witnesses Podcast join me to talk about their journeys to Orthodoxy, the lives of the saints, how to both live and talk about our beliefs, and what Orthodox Christians can do for evangelizing our faith. 

Here is their YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@cloudofwitnessesradio/videos

My previous conversation with them from last month: https://youtu.be/zmbesA4V8Nk?si=zbR2g0O9CxW7Fa0y

A link to CoWP Patreon: https://youtu.be/zmbesA4V8Nk?si=zbR2g0O9CxW7Fa0y

These guys are legit wonderful, so please check out and support their work!!

Dr Robert A Hand (Not to be confused with the not-invited astrologist Robert S. Hand) joins me to discuss his book:

Presupposing God: Theological Epistemology in Immanuel Kant's Transcendental Idealism and Karl Barth's Theology: https://www.amazon.com/Presupposing-God-Princeton-Theological-Monograph/dp/1666728675

 I originally encountered Dr. Hand's work on this short podcast series: https://open.spotify.com/show/3ieLmfLnB164YclxKZHriN

 And you can check out his website here: https://www.robert-hand.com/

 I was in search of as much information as I could gather on Arius and the "Controversy" leading up to the Council of Nicea (325 AD) and I was blown away by his book in the process, and invited him to chat. You've heard me talk about Enlightenment philosophy, but today we get super granular and talk about why this matters. And it matters to both the Eastern AND Western traditions.

As mentioned in the show, here is a link to the line-by-line breakdown of the Nicean-Constantinopolitan Creed as quoted in Scripture: https://stpaulsirvine.org/the-creed-with-scriptural-references/

 And here is the link to the SVS books dealing with Orthodox and Methodist "ecumenism", should that interest you: https://svspress.com/orthodox-and-wesleyan-spirituality/

Daniel was kind enough to invite me on his show. This is the episode, and below is his caption. YP is a stand-up guy and I really enjoyed being able to let loose a bit here. Go check him out on YT!! "Today we welcome as our guest Adam Patrick host of the YouTube channel and podcast @theageof_info We have entered an age when all of the worlds information is available at our fingertips (literally) and everything seems to be changing around us. Yet, as scripture says, there is nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:9). The spiritual reality that underlies creation has not changed. On Adam's podcast he discusses the intersection of age-old Orthodox Christianity and the modern world. Adam has an academic background in Philosophy, and in todays conversation we will hear how he began his investigation into Orthodoxy in order to take it apart using his philosophical training. He found that, try as he might, he was unable to disprove the teachings of the Orthodox Church. Eventually this led to his embrace of the Orthodox faith. We are going to be using as a jump-off point for our conversation a post which he made on Facebook in which he was discussing the idea of the “good.” How do you define good? How do you justify your belief in what is good? Is perfect the enemy of good?"

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Young P links: Telegram Chatroom: https://t.me/+Q7EJv3fhYqY5ZjVh

 Telegram Channel: https://t.me/+jITpv7gWcE9hM2Ix

I joined Jason and Mark on 2Bit Podcast to chat about Alexander Dugan and his book. We pivot pretty quick into theology and philosophy. Long story short, Dugin is perhaps nominally Orthodox, but he's perennialist and ultimately gnostic in action.

Check out the fellas here:

 https://www.youtube.com/@UCxKHCMB0iwZkqKEustgsZwA