#590 – Why the "medieval God" beats the "modern God" (with Pat Flynn)

The Counsel of Trent

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🗓️ 1 April 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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In this episode Trent sits down with Catholic apologist Pat Flynn to discuss how medieval philosophers gave us the best tools to defeat atheism and how some modern Christian views of God undermine our Faith.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.
0:12.4	I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.
0:15.9	Just want to let you know I have a new course on the existence of God at the Catholic Answers
0:20.6	School of Polygedics.
0:21.6	If you haven't been there yet, you really need to go check it out.
0:23.7	Schoolofapologetics.com.
0:24.7	They've got probably my favorite course there.
0:27.2	It's not one of my courses because that would be narcissistic.
0:29.6	Is Jimmy Aikens beginner's guide to apologetics?
0:33.6	It's just awesome because Jimmy is the best because Jimmy is probably a robot the church
0:37.8	sent from the future to help us because he knows everything.
0:41.2	But go to schoolapologetics.com, check out my new course, Evidence for God because today
0:46.0	also, this is ties into that a little bit.
0:49.0	I want to talk about how Christians sometimes get God wrong.
0:53.8	There is different views among philosophers of religion.
0:56.8	How do we understand God?
0:58.5	And so the title of today's episode is how the medieval God can beat up the modern God.
1:04.2	What does that mean?
1:05.2	We often think of medieval philosophers.
1:07.2	They live in the dark ages and I hate that phrase, by the way.
1:10.4	I think it was Petra who, you know, Renaissance writer who came up with it, which is silly.
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