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Aug 2022
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WOF 345: Understanding the Present Momen...

BISHOP ROBERT BARRON
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Friends, today on the "Word on Fire Show," we continue our series of discussions called "Understanding the Present Moment." Brandon Vogt and I are examining four massively influential figures who together help explain our present moment, how we arrived at where we are today.

The ideologies undergirding much of the unrest in our culture stem from these four thinkers: Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Michel Foucault. Once we understand these figures and their key ideas, we will recognize them everywhere and be prepared to engage today's challenges.

In today's second discussion, we focus on Friedrich Nietzsche.

A listener asks, what's the difference between the theological virtues of faith and hope?

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