Idea of progress
114Divided Kingdom
18 Apr 2022
42:20¶ 139
“Living in America we assume, “Well, progress is a thing. Progress happens,” but you know, for the Classical age no one believed that really.…”
42:41¶ 140
“It was Augustine who first really introduced this idea of a linear history that was going someplace. And once you open the possibility of…”
42:51¶ 141
“In the Middle Ages, Christendom was able to stop and say, “I guess it could get better.” It took the Reformation to say, “Well,…”
40Sociology of the Sabbath
4 Oct 2020
20:11¶ 66
“Exactly, and that’s what we’re talking about, the idea of a Sabbath day, of counting upward discretely to seven means that progress is a…”
20:44¶ 67
“I go every Sabbath to hear the word of God taught to me, and I go in the context of other people, especially my…”
21:14¶ 68
“The results of that will work themselves out in all kinds of things, like maybe I’m learning to work harder, save better, be a…”
12OOPArts, Social Theory, and Progress
22 Mar 2020
4:21¶ 16
“And as we live this out – and this is some of what we want to talk about – is progress possible, or is…”
11:34¶ 44
“This I think is the focus of what we’re talking about. How do the godly make progress? How do the ungodly make progress? What’s…”
26:03¶ 98
“When you come to ancient Greece and Rome, you find that there is very little notion of progress. By and large, history is cyclical.…”