Mysterium Tremendum
Mysterium Tremendum
Mysterium Tremendum
Mysterium Tremendum is a philosophy of religion podcast exploring the depths of the human heart, the exaltations of the soul, and the mystery of God.
Introducing Mysterium Tremendum
Introducing Mysterium Tremendum.  "Not all who wander are lost", wrote Bilbo Baggins.  We have been wandering, but we are not lost - not entirely.  Seventeen months after our last episode, we return: slower, deeper, darker.
Mar 21
4 min
Where Is God?
Where is God?  How is the distance between God and man to be measured?  In this episode we conclude a series of episodes on Divine Hiddenness.  However, this is not your mother's academic discussion.  God, evil, life, pinball, drinks, and a wee bit of reverie await you, dear listener.  Come and enjoy the show.
Sep 30, 2024
17 min
Divine Hiddenness & D. Z. Phillips
When we experience evil, or silence from heaven, can any answers, any consolation, be found in philosophy?  In this episode we consider this question in the light of D. Z. Phillips.
Jul 27, 2024
17 min
Divine Hiddenness & C. S. Lewis
When we experience evil, or silence from heaven, can any answers, any consolation, be found in philosophy?  In this episode we consider this question in the light of C. S. Lewis.
Jun 30, 2024
14 min
Deus Absconditus
The world can seem a silent and indifferent place in the face of suffering and confusion.  Where is God?  Why should God, as some tell us, be in a whisper?  Why should God dwell in secret places?  In this episode we take up The hiddenness of God, the Deus absconditus. 
Apr 26, 2024
13 min
RLP Replay: What's So Good About Good Friday?
As we continue recovering from being under the weather, we bring you one of our Easter favorites.  On this holiday episode of Red Letter Philosophy we ask the question, what's so good about Good Friday?  We also discuss the frame or boundary that is Holy Week.  In the words of Peter Kreeft, "it takes boundaries to make anything interesting.  If a picture didn't have a frame, it would trail off into vague, boring everything-ness.  Life's most dramatic moments are her two frames: entrance and exit, beginning and end, birth and death."
Mar 30, 2024
17 min
RLP Replay: The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde
This St. Patrick's Day finds us under the weather.  Rather than miss the day, we offer/bring one of our St Patrick's Day favorites.  Is St. Patrick's Day a celebration of the Irish; Irish history, Irish storytelling, Ireland herself, or is St. Patrick's Day a celebration of a saint and of the one who molded the saint?  We couldn't decide.  So, on this episode we offer you both one of Ireland's finest sons and her greatest saint.  We offer for your listening pleasure The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde.
Mar 17, 2024
14 min
World In My Eyes
In this episode we contemplate the problems of silence and unbelief through the eyes of Jean Paul Sartre and Frederick Nietzsche.  Do these two great atheist philosophers agree, fundamentally, with the great Christian philosophers?  Take up and listen.
Mar 1, 2024
11 min
RLP Holiday: Love & Death
Every once in a while Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday fall on the same day; this episode is for such days.  Love and death are visitors from another world, doors in the wall of the world.  Join us as we contemplate love and death.
Feb 14, 2024
15 min
Policy of Truth
After a three month hiatus, Red Letter Philosophy returns.  The boys pick up their discussion of the problem of silence and the problem of unbelief.  In particular, they look at an intriguing argument from famed author, Andrew Klavan.
Feb 2, 2024
12 min
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