A conversation with Alan Noble - S9.E10
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🗓️ 12 November 2021
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Culture tells us we belong to ourselves. But the Bible tells us we belong to God. What implications does that have for our desire to seek affirmation from other people, especially through social media? That’s the simple but difficult truth Alan Noble wrestles with in his new book, You Are Not Your Own. In this episode, Noble and host Warren Smith talk about the tension between living in the world and understanding our place before God.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Warren Smith and today you'll be listening in on my conversation with Alan Noble. |
| 0:11.4 | He's the author of a new book called You Are Not Your Own, Belonging to God in an Inhuman |
| 0:17.5 | World. |
| 0:20.5 | Interacting with my students and with friends and family members and recognizing that |
| 0:25.0 | there's a great deal of angst, anxiety, frustration for some people, you know, it might be |
| 0:31.9 | mothers feeling like they keep saying to themselves, I just need to get through the day. |
| 0:36.5 | There's so much that they have to. |
| 0:37.9 | There are so many people telling them how they should be better parents and better wives |
| 0:41.8 | and better Christians or better whatever. |
| 0:44.2 | And it's overwhelming. |
| 0:45.2 | They don't know how to take care of the environment better, whatever it is. |
| 0:48.4 | My students, the same kind of anxiety, how can I be a better student? |
| 0:52.2 | How can I be a better member of my church, a better girlfriend or boyfriend or whatever. |
| 0:57.7 | And it's overwhelming. |
| 1:00.5 | Theology, the study of God has, of course, been a preoccupation of Christians and, well, |
| 1:09.1 | theologians. |
| 1:10.4 | Most of the best known theologians in history from Thomas Aquinas to the present have taken |
| 1:16.2 | a shot at writing a systematic theology, which is a grand statement of all the major theological |
| 1:24.8 | issues. |
| 1:26.1 | For that reason, we have a lot of great books that unpack biblical theology. |
| 1:31.8 | For the record on my bookshelf, in fact, I'm looking at them right now, I have systematic |
| 1:36.7 | theologies by Wayne Grudum, John Frame, and Norman Geisler. |
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