Abraham Lincoln: God's Providence, Natural Law, Liberal Democracy — A Conversation with Historian Allen Guelzo
Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 31 July 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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In this edition of the popular podcast series “Thinking in Public,” Albert Mohler speaks with Director of the James Madison Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship and Senior Research Scholar at Princeton University, esteemed historian Allen Guelzo. They discuss his new book, “Our Ancient Faith: Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment.”
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| 0:00.0 | This is thinking in public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about |
| 0:06.9 | frontline theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them. |
| 0:10.9 | I'm Albert Moller, your host and president of the Southern Baptist theological |
| 0:14.2 | seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Dr. Alan C. Gelso is the director of the James Madison |
| 0:18.9 | Program Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship and senior research scholar at Princeton University. |
| 0:25.0 | He earned his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and since that time he has honored |
| 0:29.5 | numerous award-winning publications. |
| 0:31.7 | He's written for outlets such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, and First Things. |
| 0:37.0 | Professor Gelso is a distinguished historian of the American experience. |
| 0:41.0 | With his book Gettysburg, The Last Invasion, |
| 0:44.0 | enjoying eight weeks as a New York Times bestseller. |
| 0:47.0 | That book was the topic of one of our previous conversations, |
| 0:50.0 | but it is his most recent book. |
| 0:52.0 | Our ancient faith, Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment |
| 0:55.6 | that is the topic of our conversation today. Professor Alan Gellzo, welcome to thinking in public. |
| 1:01.6 | Well, thank you very, very much President Mueller. It's always a |
| 1:06.0 | pleasure to talk and especially to appear on your program. I appreciate that. You are one of |
| 1:11.3 | our most frequent guests over the course of more than 200 |
| 1:14.8 | conversations and you know honestly when you come out with a new book I tend to think I |
| 1:20.5 | didn't think he could he could do it again, but you did and you did it again with this |
| 1:26.8 | latest book Our Ancient Faith, Lincoln, Democracy, and the American Experiment. |
| 1:31.4 | Professor, as I see it, it is both a new thing and an old thing in terms of your life work. |
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