{"podcast":{"title":"Godsplaining","slug":"godsplaining-508982","podcast_index_feed_id":508982,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/godsplaining/feed.xml","website_url":"https://godsplaining.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/15097508/Godsplaining_Logo_20268ve8v.png","author":"Dominican Friars Province of St. Joseph","episode_count":631,"summary":"Welcome to Godsplaining: a podcast featuring contemplative preachers and their contemporary age. Considering topics philosophical, theological, cultural, and beyond, Godsplaining presents ideas from the Church’s tradition and brings them to bear on our lives’ most urgent questions. Each week, join the Dominican friars as they muse on all things Catholic.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/godsplaining-508982"},"episode":{"title":"Why Does Søren Kierkegaard Still Matter?","slug":"why-does-s-ren-kierkegaard-still-matter","published_at":"2026-04-23T08:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/godsplaining-508982/why-does-s-ren-kierkegaard-still-matter","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/godsplaining-508982","url":"https://godsplaining.podbean.com/e/why-does-s%c3%b8ren-kierkegaard-still-matter/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/xztjss3bpfeq7eva/351_-_Soren_Kierkegaardat28i.mp3","summary":"This episode of Godsplaining dives into the thought of Søren Kierkegaard—one of the most influential Christian philosophers of the modern era and often called the “father of existentialism.” Fr. Bonaventure and Fr. Joseph-Anthony explore how Kierkegaard pushed back against overly rational approaches to Christianity, especially those influenced by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (checkout our episode on Hegel, if you haven't already). While Hegel emphasized reason as the key to understanding reality and faith, Kierkegaard insisted that faith cannot be reduced to logic alone. The episode unpacks Kierkegaard’s famous framework of the three stages of life: The Aesthetic Stage: a life driven by pleasure, beauty, and experience The Ethical Stage: a life grounded in moral duty and universal truths The Religious Stage: a life of radical faith, where one responds personally to God Through works like Either/Or and Fear and Trembling, Kierkegaard shows that true faith goes beyond rules and reason. Using the story of Abraham, he introduces the idea of a “teleological suspension of the ethical”—that God’s call can transcend human logic, requiring trust even when we don’t fully understand. Join us at the 2026 All Comers' Retreat in June: https://godsplaining.org/all-comers-retreat-june-2026/ For the St. Dominic Rosary and more from the Catholic Woodworker: https://catholicwoodworker.com/products/st-dominic-rosary?utm_source=godsplaining&utm_medium=shownotes&utm_campaign=stdominic Send your questions for the friars to: godsplaining@opeast.org Subscribe to our channel https://www.youtube.com/c/Godsplaining Support the Podcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/godsplaining Shop our merch store: https://godsplaining.org/store/ Shop Books Written by the Friars Witness: https://www.a…","meta_description":"This episode of Godsplaining dives into the thought of Søren Kierkegaard—one of the most influential Christian philosophers of the modern era and often ca…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2215,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/godsplaining-508982/episodes/why-does-s-ren-kierkegaard-still-matter/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/godsplaining-508982/why-does-s-ren-kierkegaard-still-matter.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}