Is Authenticity a Virtue?

11/11/2025 52 min

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Episode Synopsis

Myron and Martin reflect on curiosity as virtue and temptation, the tension between novelty and wisdom, and the anxiety of post-Christian culture. In today’s readings Aquinas examines the procession of divine persons within the Trinity and Calvin explores the insufficiency of creation to reveal God fully. "How few of us are there who, in lifting our eyes to the heavens, or looking abroad on the various regions of the earth, ever think of the Creator?"— Institutes, 1.5.1100:47 Opening Reflections: Curiosity09:01 Sartorial wisdom29:20 Summa Theologica (Prima Pars, Q28)40:24 Institutes of the Christian Religion (1.5.5-15)