The Socratic Sessions Podcast
1) God: Moral Ideal or Active Agent? ⚖️🔥
✍️ Substack: If you'd rather read than listen, you can do so over on Substack!🔍 Overview: Does Christianity reveal a knowable deity, or is it merely a powerful story?🤝 Support The Show 🤘...Show More
2) Jesus, Memory, and the Nature of the Gospels | Dale C. Allison Jr. | The Socratic Sessions | Ep #37
🔍 Overview: In this episode of The Socratic Sessions, Samuel Devis speaks with Dale C. Allison Jr. about his book The Historical Christ and the Theological Jesus. Together, they explore how memory, l...Show More
3) Jesus, the Apocalypse, and Ancient Literal Belief w/ Dale C. Allison Jr.
🔍 Overview: Dale C. Allison Jr. argues that Jesus took his end-times beliefs literally. We explore how ancient views placed heaven above and hell below—and how early science pushed these ideas out of...Show More
4) The Gospels: History or Memory? w/ Dale C. Allison Jr.
🔍 Overview: Dale C. Allison Jr. casts doubt on efforts to extract a “pure” historical Jesus from the Gospels. Instead of hard facts, he argues we should treat them as memory-shaped impressions—insepa...Show More
5) Which Jesus? Why Scholars Can’t Agree w/ Dale C. Allison Jr.
🔍 Overview: Dale C. Allison Jr. explains why scholars keep producing conflicting portraits of Jesus. With contradictory Gospel accounts and diverse reactions during his lifetime, Jesus was never just...Show More
6) No Religion, No Chaos: Debunking the Godless Myth | Phil Zuckerman | The Socratic Sessions | Ep #36
🔍 Overview: In this episode of The Socratic Sessions, Samuel Devis speaks with sociologist Phil Zuckerman about the myths surrounding secularism. Drawing from his book Society Without God, Zuckerman ...Show More
7) Godless Lives Still Have Meaning — Most People Prove It w/ Phil Zuckerman
🔍 Overview: Phil Zuckerman explores how most people—outside of philosophy departments—don’t struggle to find meaning without religion. Meaning, he argues, is something we create.🤝 Support The Show �...Show More
8) Is Christianity Making a Comeback? w/ Phil Zuckerman
🔍 Overview: Phil Zuckerman critiques the idea of a Christian resurgence, showing how long-term data contradicts the hype around a so-called religious revival in the West.🤝 Support The Show 🤘...Show More
9) Morality Comes from People, Not Religion w/ Phil Zuckerman
🔍 Overview: Phil Zuckerman challenges the claim that secular values are just borrowed Christian ones, arguing that human morality evolves from humanity itself—not religion.🤝 Support The Show 🤘...Show More
10) The Self-Made Soul: Objectivism, Ethics, and Ayn Rand | Don Watkins | The Socratic Sessions | Ep #35
🔍 Overview: In this episode of The Socratic Sessions, Samuel Devis speaks with Don Watkins, author of Effective Egoism, about Objectivism, Ayn Rand’s ethics, and the moral case for rational self-inte...Show More