“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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Choirs of Angels, Choirs of College Students with Prof. Christopher Hodkinson
St. Augustine, the City of God, and the City of Man with Dr. Virginia Arbery
Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory in Thomas Aquinas with Dr. Kent Lasnoski
Virtue, Happy Endings, and the Novels of Jane Austen with Dr. Tiffany Shubert
Accreditation!: The End of a Long Journey with Dr. Glenn Arbery
Old Testament Judges and Kings and the Question of Centralization with Dr. Jeremy Holmes
Science in a Cup of Tea with Dr. Scott Olsson
Telemachus and the Birth of Wonder with Dr. Jason Baxter
Happiness and the Good in Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics with Dr. Michael Bolin
Liberal Education from Plato to Wyoming Catholic College with Dr. Tiffany Schubert
Gods, Monsters, and Heroes: The Epic of Gilgamesh with Prof. Kyle Washut
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"The Splendor of Truth" Twenty-Five Years Later (Part 1) with Dr. Jeremy Holmes
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Lecture - St. Antony and Purifying Courage by Prof. Kyle Washut
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Lecture - A Scheme, Courage, and Providence in Shakespeare's "Henry V" by Dr. Glenn Arbery
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