Is Shame Something to Resist—or to Reconsider? - Lecture 3

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This episode explores the complexities of shame as a shared human experience and its moral implications.

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
• spirituality
• Christianity

Keywords

• shame
• moral deficiency
• human experience
• First Testament
• Second Testament

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