Peter Fenzel and Matthew Wrather consider what it means to live with purpose, and end up talking mostly about Disney’s Beauty and the Beast.
Subscribe: iTunes Other Apps
Your Panel
Further Reading
- Caddyshack
- “Belle” on YouTube
- “Purpose” in the Online Etymology Dictionary
- The Chronicles of Prydain on Wikipedia
- The Chronicles of Prydain on Amazon
- Dean Martin, “You’re Nobody till Somebody Loves You” on YouTube
Pete, your comments at the beginning of the episode made me want to ask you – which involves greater arrogance:
1.To believe/accept that life’s purpose, even purpose of all of existence, is given and knowable (and, in fact, known) because it has been divinely revealed – i.e. the position of revealed faith(s)
Or
2.To believe/accept that one, through one’s own actions or narrativising, creates purpose and in fact imbues existence with meaning? i.e. the position of atheistic materialism(s)
Ok I’m basically live blogging as I listen, but I was astounded to hear your formulations about ‘what the purpose of Christianity is’. It is neither to bring about the Kingdom of God (God, in Christ, has inaugurated and opened the kingdom himself because humanity is not able) nor to treat others with love (though that is laudable and in fact commanded by Christ), rather the purpose of life according to Christianity is to ‘glorify God and enjoy Him forever’ and the purpose of Christianity is to show why God is worth glorifying and enjoying, and how we can achieve our purpose by taking hold of Christ and all his benefits.
Thanks for a thought-provoking discussion. You made me laugh and reconsider the Caddyshack gopher as Loki, and the idea of Tom Hiddleston with a wire leading to explosives in his butt. “Don’t mind this, it’s just doctor’s orders!”