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Podcast: Restitutio
Episode: 103 The Kingdom Is Too Hedonic (Kingdom of God 12)
Description: Last time we saw that some influential Christians rejected the biblical teaching on the kingdom because the idea of living on earth forever seemed crude to them. This time, we look at how the ancients thought about bodies and bodily pleasures. As it turns out, from (at least) Plato onward, many philosophers tended to embrace a very negative view of pleasure, arguing that the truly enlightened person should exercise abstinence and discipline as much as possible. This idea flourished among the Stoics and Neo-Platonists and infiltrated Christianity from the second century onward. Consequently, the biblical descriptions of feasting in the...