Episodes 180
Avg. Duration 13m
Activity Highly Active
Since Nov 2018
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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Mysterium Tremendum is a philosophy of religion podcast exploring the depths of the human heart, the exaltations of the soul, and the mystery of God.

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S7 Introducing Mysterium Tremendum

Mar 21, 2026 4m Bonus

Introducing Mysterium Tremendum. "Not all who wander are lost", wrote Bilbo Baggins. We have been wandering, but we are not lost - not entirely. Seventeen months after our last episode, we return:…

S6E8 Where Is God?

Sep 30, 2024 17m

Where is God? How is the distance between God and man to be measured? In this episode we conclude a series of episodes on Divine Hiddenness. However, this is not your mother's academic discussion.…

S6E7 Divine Hiddenness & D. Z. Phillips

Jul 27, 2024 17m

When we experience evil, or silence from heaven, can any answers, any consolation, be found in philosophy? In this episode we consider this question in the light of D. Z. Phillips.

S6E6 Divine Hiddenness & C. S. Lewis

Jun 30, 2024 14m

When we experience evil, or silence from heaven, can any answers, any consolation, be found in philosophy? In this episode we consider this question in the light of C. S. Lewis.

S6E5 Deus Absconditus

Apr 26, 2024 13m

The world can seem a silent and indifferent place in the face of suffering and confusion. Where is God? Why should God, as some tell us, be in a whisper? Why should God dwell in secret places? In…

S6 RLP Replay: What's So Good About Good Friday?

Mar 30, 2024 17m Bonus

As we continue recovering from being under the weather, we bring you one of our Easter favorites. On this holiday episode of Red Letter Philosophy we ask the question, what's so good about Good…

S6 RLP Replay: The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde

Mar 17, 2024 14m Bonus

This St. Patrick's Day finds us under the weather. Rather than miss the day, we offer/bring one of our St Patrick's Day favorites. Is St. Patrick's Day a celebration of the Irish; Irish history,…

S6E4 World In My Eyes

Mar 01, 2024 11m

In this episode we contemplate the problems of silence and unbelief through the eyes of Jean Paul Sartre and Frederick Nietzsche. Do these two great atheist philosophers agree, fundamentally, with…

S6 RLP Holiday: Love & Death

Feb 14, 2024 15m Bonus

Every once in a while Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday fall on the same day; this episode is for such days. Love and death are visitors from another world, doors in the wall of the world. Join us as…

S6E3 Policy of Truth

Feb 02, 2024 12m

After a three month hiatus, Red Letter Philosophy returns. The boys pick up their discussion of the problem of silence and the problem of unbelief. In particular, they look at an intriguing argument…

S6 RLP Holiday: Memento Mori

Nov 01, 2023 18m Bonus

Halloween, All Saints Day, All Souls Day: a trinity of holy and deathly days. In an increasingly secular age, these days become excuses to indulge the appetites: hedonism & ghoulishness. However,…

S6E2 Enjoy the Silence

Oct 20, 2023 16m

Do we live on a silent planet? Are we merely insignificant specs of dust adrift in an indifferent cosmos? Or do we have reason to think otherwise? We're on the road and searching for answers; join…

S6E1 The Problem of Unbelief

Sep 15, 2023 19m

Do you struggle with belief? Are you disturbed by the apparent silence (or indifference) of the universe? If so, then this is the episode for you. Join us for a discussion of belief, silence, and…

S5 RLP Special: Death in the Grand Canyon (Refreshed)

Aug 25, 2023 16m Bonus

The Grand Canyon is a place where the veil between this world and the next world grows thin; a place where we learn to take life, but not ourselves, seriously. In this episode, we look again at the…

S5 RLP Special: Chance or the Dance (Refreshed)

Aug 11, 2023 16m Bonus

In this episode, we continue our contemplation of a mystery. We began, two episodes ago, with G. K. Chesterton and his comment about seeing in "the light of the supernatural". In the last episode we…

S5 RLP Special: The Sea Within (Refreshed)

Jul 28, 2023 12m Bonus

The Summer of the supernatural continues. In this episode we revisit and refresh a pervious episode, The Sea Within. Perhaps the supernatural isn't so far from the natural; perhaps what we call…

S5 RLP Special: Life Is a Pigsty (Refreshed)

Jul 14, 2023 15m Bonus

Approximately five years ago we posted our first episode. The episode was, and is, titled, Life Is A Pigsty. In this episode, we reexamine, and elaborate upon, that first episode. Morrissey,…

S5E19 Farewell & Adieu

Jun 30, 2023 20m

In this episode of Red Letter Philosophy, we bid farewell to season five. We've been on a metaphysical journey through Ancient, Medieval, Modern, and contemporary philosophy. What conclusions can be…

S5 RLP Holiday: Fatherhood & Reality

Jun 16, 2023 10m Bonus

Is it, as Freud said, that we are projecting our fathers onto the face of God, or is it that we project our inner knowledge God onto the face of our fathers? Do our desires and expectations come from…

S5E18 Thomas Howard: Chance or Dance?

Jun 09, 2023 17m

Is it that nothing means anything or that everything means everything? Two myths, two ways of understanding life and the world; the culmination of Augustine, Pascal, and our season: on this week's…

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Mysterium Tremendum has published 180 episodes since November 2018, covering topics in Philosophy, Religion & Spirituality.

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