#658 – A Thoughtful Dialogue on Abortion (with Randal Rauser)

The Counsel of Trent

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🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 74 minutes

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In this episode Trent discusses Protestant theologian Randal Rauser’s “gradualist” position on abortion and the critiques of what Rauser calls Trent’s “absolutist” pro-life position.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.
0:12.4	I'm your host, Caving Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.
0:15.6	Today my guest is Randall Rouser.
0:17.4	He's a Protestant theologian in philosopher.
0:19.6	He teaches at Taylor Seminary up in Canada.
0:23.4	And today we are going to have a friendly dialogue about a controversial subject.
0:29.2	And I have full confidence we'll be able to do that because Randall and I have had friendly
0:32.7	dialogues about other controversial subjects before.
0:35.6	Things related to hell, for example, we did that a few years ago actually.
0:40.2	And so I appreciate a lot of the takes that Randall puts forward.
0:43.9	He's a very careful Christian apologist.
0:47.8	Online has the moniker, the tentative apologist.
0:51.1	And I like that.
0:52.1	So today we're going to talk about the issue of abortion where we agree, where we disagree.
0:56.2	So Randall, welcome back to the podcast.
0:59.5	Great to be with you, Trent.
1:00.7	Thanks for having me.
1:01.8	Of course.
1:02.8	So what motivated me to want to have you on just a chat about this is a while ago you
1:09.1	published a series of blog posts, critiquing what you called the absolutist pro-life position.
1:18.1	And so you have your own perspective on abortion.
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