Judgment as a setting for learning and practicing hope

About this episode

The episode discusses Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical on Christian hope, focusing on judgment as a setting for hope.

In today's episode, Kale Zelden and I complete our discussion of Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical letter on Christian hope. In the last major section of the letter, Benedict XVI speaks of the experience of judgment as a setting for hope. We pick up our reading at paragraph 39. This episode concludes the first season of the podcast. I'd really appreciate your feedback on the first season of this podcast -- what you liked, what you didn't, what you'd like to see in season two -- by taking a mome...

People in this episode

Host: Clayton Emmer

Guest: Kale Zelden

Topics covered

• Christian hope
• judgment
• Pope Benedict XVI
• spirituality
• learning
• season finale

Keywords

• Christian hope
• judgment
• Pope Benedict XVI
• encyclical
• spirituality
• learning
• season finale

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