Is Shame Something to Resist—or to Reconsider? - Lecture 1

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This episode explores the nature of shame and its profound impact on human behavior and morality.

What is shame, and why does it shape us so deeply? Shame is a shared human experience, yet we struggle to describe it. In some cases, we sense that we should not feel ashamed, and yet we do. In other cases of moral wrongdoing, a lack of shame, or at least the ability to experience it, is often deemed problematic. To be shameless is viewed as a moral deficiency in such circumstances. Scripture only deepens the complexity. Across both the First and Second Testaments, t...

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Topics covered

• shame
• human experience
• moral wrongdoing
• scripture
• psychology

Keywords

• shame
• moral deficiency
• human experience
• scripture
• psychology

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