In this episode, Bishop Barron and Brandon Vogt record live from the L.A. Congress, discussing Bishop Barron’s keynote talk on beauty and interacting with visitors at the booth. Enjoy!
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In this episode, Bishop Barron and Brandon Vogt record live from the L.A. Congress, discussing Bishop Barron’s keynote talk on beauty and interacting with visitors at the booth. Enjoy!
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Thank you Bishop Barron and the WOF staff for all the work you put into this podcast. I think I’ve listened to everyone one and several multiple times! In this episode, Bishop you mention a poster of Catholic scientists. I’d love to get these for our middle school teachers. If you all have one in particular I was hoping you could provide a link. Thank you and God bless you all!
Bishop Barron:
This is such a helpful talk to my husband and I who are seniors and trying to evangelize to our family and we have some great ideas here so thank you very much. There is something here for everyone who wants to spread the Catholic Faith.
Thank you! Very Inspiring Bishop Barron.
I admire Isaac Newton, first for his contributions to physics and science and also, after I read a biography about him, when I realized he was also religious. Historically, scientists (two examples; Rene Descartes, Charles Darwin ) practiced both science and religion.
For anyone with an interest:
I. The theology of the Principia Mathematica: opening questions
This paper provides a preliminary survey of the theology of Isaac
Newton’s Principia mathematica, first published in 1687 and later printed
in revised and expanded second and third editions in 1713 and 1726.1
With only one direct reference to God and a single mention of the Bible,
the first edition of Newton’s Principia may have struck many contemporaries
as an oddly secular work. Even the mechanical philosopher René
Descartes’ Principles of philosophy (1644) contains numerous references to
God and his activity in the world. From the vantage point of today, as
well, it may seem that God and theology do not impinge in any significant
way on the thought-world of the Principia. There is after all more explicit
theology in Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859) than in the first edition
of Newton’s great work. In fact, there is in popular culture a common
belief that Newton’s physics makes God superfluous. Did not Newton’s
work inevitably lead to that famous moment over a century later when the
French physicist Pierre-Simon de la Place told Napoleon (who had asked
him why his work did not mention God when Newton’s did): “Sire, I have no need of that hypothesis”?2 The belief that Newton invented a ‘clockwork
universe’ that was initially created by God and then left to tick away
on its own, or that this mechanical cosmos implies that God is not really
necessary to begin with, appears to be firmly entrenched in the popular imagination.
The Principia is a work of physics that brilliantly presents the
three laws of motion and the inverse-square law; what does all of this have
to do with theology? Certainly, works of physics today do not also present
theology. All of these considerations may suggest that a paper that proposes
to speak about the theology of Newton’s Principia will either be very short
or involve strained apologetics.
Yet we now know that Newton produced a substantial body of theological
writings and that he devoted close to six decades to a passionate study
of the Bible, theology, prophecy, church history and natural theology.
Newton’s theological papers total a minimum of two and a half million words
and constitute the single largest category in his manuscript corpus.
From: The Theology of Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica…
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