A Christian Apologist In The Age Of Reason | Religio Medici: Sir Thomas Browne - HC Vol. 3 Ep15 

It's funny to think that there's like 107 more episodes left lol... I'm waiting for the next every time!

Please don't stop making these. I started the Harvard Classics a few months ago but no longer have the time to read them anymore because I am now enrolled back in school. I am living vicariously through this series.

I’ve seen your other video about classical education, and I now have this dream of seeing you on The Commonplace podcast with Autumn Kern. WHAT a conversation that would be.

fantastic and well done video. please keep having the great conversation alive. your videos and insights will last generations to come. your kids will watch them and learn from you.

This was so well done. From the highlights you brought out to the history and context you added to the fair handed way that you treated his arguments you are getting very good at this format and I am enjoying this series tremendously. The conviction grows stronger than I should purchase the set.

Rob, I love the style of your videos. I get something out of each one of the videos in this series. Beautiful philosophy well explained. Thank you.

#6:12 very deep quote there, it reminds me of the short story of Al Ghazali titled the allegory of the pen, very short paragraph read, not more than a few minutes but hes showing how a devotee sets out on the path of reason without knowing its existence beforehand, than at the end, reason and faith were merge together in a brilliant manner

Excellent-as always. Thank you.

I keep thinking back on this book and I must say… Thomas Browne’s Religio Medici was a fantastic read. Definitely under estimated it. What are your thoughts on Faith, Reason, and Passion? Would love to hear below.

Thank you for continuing your reviews of these books. I have had my set for four years and never made a point of reading them until your series started. It's been great reading them in conjunction with your series. I will be starting book four tomorrow morning over a cup of your Papua New Guinea - Tenega coffee. -PJ

11:11 one of the great minds, the great poet Imam Busiri says regarding this quote about sins as infant usually makes the sins stick with us even as adults due to reputation he said in his poem - the burda that: " Do not aim to break the desires by plunging further into sin, The glutton's greed is only increased by [the sight of] food The self is like an infant, if you neglect its proper care, It will grow up still loving to suckle; but once you wean it, it will be weaned"

Never heard of this guy! Excited for the new territory!

Thanks Rob, your videos are excellent. This one especially hit home as I have watched my mainline Protestant church self-destruct over liberal theology and cultural relativism in an effort to be more reasonable and attractive to post-modern audiences. It didn’t work. Thanks again and I look forward to your future videos, Mike, aka, Siegfried.

It is fascinating how Philosophy seems to move about professions at different times. In the Arab Golden Age most were philosopher physicians (not unlike brown). In the early Greek it seems that many were astronomers or mathematicians. In Roman times, it was orators and statesmen. In the Scholastic Europe it was priests and abbots. In the enlightenment period, many had patrons as though they were artists but their art being philosophy. I guess philosophers, save for Diogenes, still need to pay for clothes. Fantastic review. The quotes make me want to read this primarily for the beautiful language!

Thanks for sharing Rob! Sad to hear about his skull. Kind of hard to consume a cup of coffee without it.

Excellent video! I like Browne's closing statement. We all have passion, faith, and reason. What does it mean to properly balance them? Does it mean we should allow each to steer us one-third of the time? Does it mean that one should lead and the others follow? Does the answer depend on the circumstances? I look forward to watching your video on Paradise Lost. It's the highlight of the series for me so far. I'm still stuck on Emerson's volume.

A lovely new video❤

Love the series! Keep it up. How do you plan to break up the fifth volume? Obviously Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes deserve their own videos. For the shorter works, I'm planning to treat them as their own "book". Some collections of these short poems are called "The Minor Poems."

Like the way you do your video

Can understand the family getting sick

8:28 Faith, passion, and reason all in balance? What does that make me think of? Ethos, Pathos, and Logos. No doubt Sir Thomas Brown was familiar with Aristotle's Rhetoric.

the middle of this video reminds me of what I heard someone say about how some people give up on faith, reason, and passion... and then turn to productivity for salvation "I don't understand so I have to have faith" the bit about age - that sounds kinda like fix your crap in your 20s before it becomes your personality lol highly efficient government... where is he going with this xD sounds insane? did it become intimidating? outran the bug

Faith needs to be based in Fact and then Feelings and Passions are then produced -the Facts that Faith are built upon are the question (what are your building materials?) until the Enlightenment it was Scripture - Scripture used properly builds a charitable life and thoughts of your proper place in this magnificent universe - use improperly leads to bloody landscapes; to be naturalistic to an extreme as you stated can be quite damning, and leads to bloody landscapes with a dull soundtrack - however, a Browne states that the created world shows the evidence of that God that created it therefor this level of naturalism should not be discarded but used for its proper purpose; to be ruled by Feeling and Passion leads to incorrect Faith and Facts and usually bloody landscapes with a nice soundtrack. Browne seemed to be living a continual struggle in Romans Chapter 7 - his thoughts and conflicts seem to reside there. The wisest man stated, after contemplating everything he could: Ecc 1:3-11 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? [One] generation passeth away, and [another] generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea [is] not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. All things [are] full of labour; man cannot utter [it]: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. The thing that hath been, it [is that] which shall be; and that which is done [is] that which shall be done: and [there is] no new [thing] under the sun. Is there [any] thing whereof it may be said, See, this [is] new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us [There is] no remembrance of former [things]; neither shall there be [any] remembrance of [things] that are to come with [those] that shall come after. and in the end of the book stated: Ecc 12:13-14 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this [is] the whole [duty] of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether [it be] good, or whether [it be] evil. As well, the Apostle John wrote, after seeing the throne room of God, and the magnificence of it all: Rev 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created. FYI "charity" especially during Browne's time would have been a synonym for "love" (read 1 Corinthians 13) Wyclif used "charity" translating from the Vulgate to English - Tyndale used "love" translating from Greek in every spot the Vulgate had "charity" in order to move from the the high church terms - this was retained in the English Bibles up until the King James when the more ecclesiastical term "charity" was reinstituted, among others.