“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.
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Medieval Manuscripts and the Movement of the Heavens with Dr. Henry Zapeda
Comedy, Tragedy, Satire, and "The Frogs" with Dr. Tiffany Schubert and Dr. Kent Lasnoski
Christ, the Incarnation, and the Scriptures with Prof. Travis Dziad
Reading Democritus Today with Dr. Michael Bolin
Making a Good Beginning with Dr. Glenn Arbery
The Challenge of the Sermon on the Mount with Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Courtly Love, Knightly Friendship, and the Once and Future King with Dr. Tiffany Schubert
Friendship: A Philosophical Perspective by Dr. Pavlos Papadopoulos
Friendship in an Age of Romance by Dr. Tiffany Schubert
"Unexpected Friendship: The Murderer and the Harlot" by Dr. Virginia Arbery
Loving Friends by Loving God: St. Thomas Aquinas on Friendship by Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Friendship and Politics by Dr. Virginia Arbery
"Friendship between Women: Jane and Elizabeth Bennet" by Dr. Tiffany Schubert
Friendship Between Men in The Iliad and in Moby Dick by Dr. Glenn Arbery
"Friendship in the Bible: The Story of David and Jonathan" by Dr. James Tonkowich
Vacation, Leisure, and Philosophy with Dr. Michael Bolin
"Is It Okay to Hate Math?" with Dr. Scott Olsson
Eastern Church, Western Church with Fr. David Anderson
"Yet": Wyoming Catholic College from Vision to Reality with Bishop David Ricken
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