Paradise and Utopia
Fr. John Strickland, and Ancient Faith Ministries
5.0from 86 ratings
- 128
- Episodes
- 2
- Transcribed
- 86
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2013
- First episode
- 7M
- YouTube views
About Paradise and Utopia
Reflections on the Rise and Fall of Christendom
- Publisher
- Fr. John Strickland, and Ancient Faith Ministries
- Category
- religion & spirituality
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 28 Mar 2013
- Latest episode
- 10 Jun 2026
Latest episodes
2 of 128 episodes have a transcript.
10 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
From Utopia to Dystopia III: How Atheistic Existentialism Countered Saint Siluoan's "My Brother Is My Life" with Sartre's "Hell Is Other People"
3 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT
From Utopia to Dystopia II: Totalitarianism, Hard and Soft
9 Jan 2026
From Utopia to Dystopia I: How Christians Like C.S. Lewis Saw Nihilism for What It Was
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From Utopia to Dystopia III: How Atheistic Existentialism Countered Saint Siluoan's "My Brother Is My Life" with Sartre's "Hell Is Other People"
Published 10 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And so this was the absurdity of the existentialists. Now for Sartre, who remained kind of set in his convictions, really on these convictions throughout his career, he never really shifted in his beliefs. That leaves the individual to grapple with the meaning that he or she must make for his or her life. The individual is the source of all meaning. As he put it, the individual is thrown into existence. Everything starts with existence. It doesn't start with any presupposition about the order of reality. The only reality is that individual consciousnesses exist individuals exist it's a very rationalistic by the way way of seeing the world that has its origins in the rationalism of fellow frenchmen of the seventeenth century rene descartes i think therefore i am And by the way, it contradicts radically traditional Christianity's understanding of the individual's relationship with others. […]
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