WOF 415: Mind, Meaning, and the Materialists

<p class="has-drop-cap">Friends, can everything in the world be reduced to atoms bumping against each other, and chemical reactions in our brains? Or is there something more to reality than its material elements?</p> <p>That’s what Brandon Vogt and I discuss on today’s “Word on Fire Show” episode, with the help of a new book by Justin Brierley, titled <em><a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Surprising-Rebirth-Belief-God-Christianity/dp/1496466772/?tag=woonfi-20" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" aria-label= "The Surprising Rebirth of Belief In God: Why New Atheism Grew Old and Secular Thinkers Are Considering Christianity Again - opens in new tab" data-uw-rm-ext-link="">The Surprising Rebirth of Belief In God: Why New Atheism Grew Old and Secular Thinkers Are Considering Christianity Again</a></em>.</p> <p>A listener asks, if feelings are not acts of the will, what is contrition? A feeling, an act of the will, both, or neither?</p> <p>00:00 | Intro<br role="presentation" data-uw-rm-sr="" /> 00:58 | Word on Fire’s New Ressourcement Conference<br role= "presentation" data-uw-rm-sr="" /> 03:10 | The problem with Materialism<br role="presentation" data-uw-rm-sr="" /> 07:56 | The problem with Determinism<br role="presentation" data-uw-rm-sr="" /> 10:57 | Consciousness and the problem it poses to Materialism<br role="presentation" data-uw-rm-sr="" /> 16:34 | Rationality, C.S. Lewis, and atheism<br role="presentation" data-uw-rm-sr="" /> 19:44 | Beauty as a path to transcendence<br role="presentation" data-uw-rm-sr="" /> 23:25 | Materialism’s inadequacy as a source of meaning<br role= "presentation" data-uw-rm-sr="" /> 26:03 | The Meaning Crisis without the Highest Good<br role= "presentation" data-uw-rm-sr="" /> 29:48 | Listener question<br role="presentation" data-uw-rm-sr= "" /> 31:36 | New book—“Popcorn with the Pope”</p> <h2 id="h-links" class="wp-block-heading">Links</h2> <ul> <li><em><a href= "https://www.amazon.com/Surprising-Rebirth-Belief-God-Christianity/dp/1496466772/?tag=woonfi-20" target="_blank" rel=