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An Interview with Vishal Mangalwadi [The Pugcast]

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🗓️ 18 November 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Glenn and honorary Pug John West of the Discovery Institute interview Indian Christian philosopher Vishal Mangalwadi about his life, his proposals for recovering the role of the church in higher education, and his analysis of where Western culture epistemology went wrong. This last point generated a lively discussion about general and special revelation between Vishal and John.

 

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to a live recording of the theology podcast from the Evangelical Reform Church

0:08.0

of Tacoma, Washington.

0:14.0

We're glad to have you with us. I am not C.R. Wiley. I am Glenn Sunshine. I am a senior fellow at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. I have my own ministry, every square inch ministry, eSquare inch.org. I also work for reflections, ministries, and I do a couple of other things as well, like conferences. So, we're going to each introduce ourselves as usual.

0:42.3

I'm the only pug of the regular pugs who is actually here tonight.

0:48.3

So, pinch hitting as a pug we have Dr. John West.

0:53.3

John West. I'm delighted to be an honorary pug or a pug for

0:56.5

this evening. I'm vice president of Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based think tank, and I help manage

1:01.9

its center on science and culture, which explores evidence of intelligent design in the world,

1:06.6

and also the dangers of scientism, things that C.S. Lewis warned us about in books like

1:11.2

The Abolition of Man.

1:12.2

Yes, and we have a special guest tonight.

1:15.2

I'm Vishal Mangalwadi from India, and I have been influenced by Hollywood to choose two

1:26.6

mission impossibles.

1:28.3

So my first mission impossible is to make the Bible the book of the 21st century.

1:37.3

And the second mission impossible that I'll talk about tomorrow is to empower the church to take education back from the state and use it

1:52.0

as an instrument of disciplining nations. So two mission impossibles make the Bible, the book of the 21st century and empower every church

2:03.2

in the world to take education back to as an instrument of discipling nations.

2:11.1

Thank you.

2:17.2

So, Vishal, our listeners probably aren't very familiar with you.

2:21.3

Can you tell us a little bit more about your background, a little bit of your story?

2:25.3

Yes, thank you.

2:27.3

I came to Christ at the age of about 13, 14, in a moral struggle with sin.

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