Pints With Aquinas
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Return of God (Dr. J. Budziszewski ) | Ep. 577
That's when I first discovered Thomas Aquinas.
Pints With Aquinas
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Return of God (Dr. J. Budziszewski ) | Ep. 577
That's when I read Augustine.
Pints With Aquinas
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Return of God (Dr. J. Budziszewski ) | Ep. 577
That's when I read Dante.
Pints With Aquinas
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Return of God (Dr. J. Budziszewski ) | Ep. 577
And I thought, well, gee, this sure looks Christian to me.
Pints With Aquinas
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Return of God (Dr. J. Budziszewski ) | Ep. 577
And I did not abandon...
Pints With Aquinas
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Return of God (Dr. J. Budziszewski ) | Ep. 577
I still had a profound critique, I thought, of the Catholic Church.
Pints With Aquinas
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Return of God (Dr. J. Budziszewski ) | Ep. 577
I agreed, I thought, with what Luther had said, as I understood it, when he said, on the doctrine of justification, the Church stands or falls.
Pints With Aquinas
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Return of God (Dr. J. Budziszewski ) | Ep. 577
Justification meaning the doctrine of how we become right and just in the eyes of God and reconciled to Him.
Pints With Aquinas
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Return of God (Dr. J. Budziszewski ) | Ep. 577
And he said, that's not by works, but that's by faith, and the Catholic Church has that all wrong.
Pints With Aquinas
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Return of God (Dr. J. Budziszewski ) | Ep. 577
Well, I came to realize that what he said the Catholic Church believed wasn't what the Catholic Church believed anyway.
Pints With Aquinas
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Return of God (Dr. J. Budziszewski ) | Ep. 577
But nevertheless, I thought that it was at this time, so I didn't want to become Catholic.
Pints With Aquinas
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Return of God (Dr. J. Budziszewski ) | Ep. 577
But with all this good stuff, quote unquote, I wanted to have a foot in Catholic tradition.
Pints With Aquinas
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Return of God (Dr. J. Budziszewski ) | Ep. 577
So I thought, well, I'll become an Episcopalian, which is the local offshoot of the Anglican Communion, the Church of England, and they'd always prided themselves on being a middle way between the Reformation and the Catholic Church.
Pints With Aquinas
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Return of God (Dr. J. Budziszewski ) | Ep. 577
I came to realize that they weren't a middle way.
Pints With Aquinas
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Return of God (Dr. J. Budziszewski ) | Ep. 577
But that wasn't really it.
Pints With Aquinas
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Return of God (Dr. J. Budziszewski ) | Ep. 577
What was was that the problems in the Episcopal Church were so overwhelming, and the communion was melting down.
Pints With Aquinas
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Return of God (Dr. J. Budziszewski ) | Ep. 577
Many sections of it were schisming off and forming what are called continuing Anglican communions, the North American Anglican Church and all kinds of others.
Pints With Aquinas
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Return of God (Dr. J. Budziszewski ) | Ep. 577
And, I mean, the presiding bishop was a homosexual who had run off with his lover and abandoned his wife and children, for example.
Pints With Aquinas
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Return of God (Dr. J. Budziszewski ) | Ep. 577
Oh, my gosh.
Pints With Aquinas
Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Return of God (Dr. J. Budziszewski ) | Ep. 577
And my wife and I thought of ourselves as part of the faithful remnant.