“What does it mean to be wise?” a psychologist recently asked an 8-year-old and an 88-year-old from different parts of the world. “Their answers,” she reported, “were remarkably similar: to know a lot.”
If wisdom was simply a question of knowing a lot, we would need to conclude that Americans today are by far the wisest generation to live. After all, thanks to the internet, we know a lot about a lot of things. But is access to knowledge, to data really the definition of wisdom? Isn’t wisdom more a matter of how we live than about what we know?
Of the 73 books in our Bibles, we classify seven as “wisdom books.” Those are Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon, Wisdom of Solomon, and Sirach. And for most people, aside from Psalms, the books seem rather elusive.
To help us understand wisdom and the wisdom books as we embark on a new calendar year, we’re joined by theologian Dr. Jeremy Holmes.
The Word Became Flesh: St. Athanasius' "On the Incarnation" with Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Master of My Own Fate or Dependent Rational Animal? with Dr. Thaddeus Kozinski
Poetry, Praise, and "Pied Beauty" with Dr. Jason Baxter
What is the Soul?: Aristotle's de Anima with Dr. Michael Bolin
Gritty Stones, Civilizational Mission, and History: Reflections on the Life of Stephen Tonsor with Dr. Gleaves Whitney
Lumen Gentium for All Saints' Day with Professor Kyle Washut
Shakespeare, Caesar, Culture, and Politics with Dr. Khalil Habib
Dionysus, Apollo, and the Challenge of Deep Knowing with Dr. Thaddeus Kozinski
Mountains, Rivers, Backpacks, and the Liberal Arts with Dr. Thomas Zimmer
Hamilton, Madison, and Jay: Exploring "The Federalist Papers" with Dr. Virginia Arbery
Plato's "Alcibiades": The Gateway to Philosophy with Professor Kyle Washut
Transcending Time and Space through the Study of Latin with Professor Eugene Hamilton
Good without God?: Iris Murdoch's Moral Vision with Dr. Thaddeus Kozinski
Religious Liberty in America with Dr. James Tonkowich
The Witness of the Whisky Priest: Graham Greene's "The Power and the Glory" with Dr. Glenn Arbery
Flannery O’Connor and the Warthog from Hell with Dr. Kent Lasnoski
Lecture: Prospero's Return by Dr. Glenn Arbery
The Use of Power and the Possibility of Grace in Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” with Dr. Glenn Arbery
Lecture: The Exodus and America by Dr. Virginia Arbery
The Puritans, the Exodus, and the American Experience with Dr. Virginia Arbery
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