2023. Moralistic Therapeutic Deism – Dr. Joel Biermann, 7/21/23
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🗓️ 21 July 2023
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Dr. Joel Biermann of Concordia Seminary-St. Louis Luther’s Large Catechism with Annotations and Contemporary Applications Wholly Citizens: God’s Two Realms and Christian Engagement With the World A Case for Character: Towards a Lutheran Virtue Ethics The Lutheran Witness magazine
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| 0:00.0 | Find out how your life's story is interwoven with the life of Christ in the issues et cetera |
| 0:05.4 | book of the month for July, life in Christ rooted woven and grafted into God's story. |
| 0:11.1 | This new resource is published by Concordia Publishing House, their phone number 1-800-325-3040, |
| 0:18.0 | or learn more about life in Christ at issuesetc.org. |
| 0:22.2 | The issues et cetera book of the month, life in Christ rooted woven and grafted into God's |
| 0:27.4 | story. |
| 0:43.1 | You won't find churches with MTD on the side facing the street, you won't find people who |
| 0:52.4 | say, well, I belong to the moralistic therapeutic deistic society, and yet moralistic therapeutic |
| 1:00.2 | deism is probably the most common religion in our culture today, and it's one that is |
| 1:05.3 | imbibed by, well, people who claim to be religious and people who don't, Christians and people |
| 1:11.3 | of other religious persuasions. |
| 1:13.6 | What is moralistic therapeutic deism and is it compatible in any way with historic Christianity? |
| 1:21.0 | Welcome back to issues et cetera, I'm Todd Wilkin, joining us to discuss moralistic therapeutic |
| 1:25.8 | deism. |
| 1:26.8 | Dr. Joel Bierman, he's professor of systematic theology at Concordia Seminarian St. Louis, |
| 1:31.2 | author of several books, including his latest Holy Citizens, God's Two Realms, and Christian |
| 1:35.7 | Engagement with the World, and a recent column on moralistic therapeutic deism for the |
| 1:40.8 | Lutheran Witness magazine. |
| 1:43.2 | Dr. Bierman, welcome back. |
| 1:45.8 | Always good to be here. |
| 1:47.0 | Who first coined this term moralistic therapeutic deism? |
| 1:50.9 | It actually arose out of a study that was done by a researcher from Notre Dame named |
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