About this episode

Bishop Barron discusses the intelligibility of the world and the recognition of objective values in relation to skepticism about religion.

Friends, in my evangelical work online, I often encounter people who are skeptical of religion and dismissive of its claims. I usually ask them: How do we explain the intelligibility of the world or our ability to understand it? How about objective values and our ability to recognize them? Our first reading from 1 Kings reflects, I think, a great breakthrough in Western consciousness about how we’re able to identify right and wrong—just as we’re able to identify patterns in the physical world.

People in this episode

Host: Bishop Robert Barron

Topics covered

• religion
• skepticism
• morality
• intelligibility
• values
• Western consciousness

Keywords

• religion
• skepticism
• morality
• 1 Kings
• intelligibility
• objective values
• Western consciousness

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: 1 Kings

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