Do You Listen to Your Conscience?

Описание: Friends, in the latest episode of the Word on Fire Show, I sat down with Matthew Petrusek to discuss what it really means to follow your conscience. We explore why conscience is not a private feeling or an internalized voice of authority, how it can be well formed or badly abused, and why recovering a biblical understanding of conscience is essential in a culture that treats “you do you” as the last word on morality.

00:00 | Introduction
01:24 | Bishop Barron in Nashville: Good News Conference, Dominicans, and Theo Von
02:29 | What is the conscience?
05:21 | Is conscience just a gut feeling?
07:14 | The “angel” and the “devil” on our shoulders
09:57 | Perceiving conscience as an external voice
11:30 | Freud’s concept of the internalized voice of authority
16:04 | Both radically individual and universally shared
18:04 | How prudence interacts with the conscience
18:55 | Is the conscience free?
22:04 | What are the duties to the conscience?
24:57 | What about when poor judgment clouds the conscience?
28:02 | “My truth, your truth”
30:24 | Responding to the conflation of evil and good
32:22 | The liberating benefits of rules
34:01 | Listener question: How can I respond to “I’m spiritual but not religious”?
36:14 | Join the Word on Fire Institute