Anchoring Truths, Natural Law, and Moral Order — A Conversation with Professor Hadley Arkes
Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2023
⏱️ 56 minutes
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In this edition of the popular podcast series “Thinking in Public,” Albert Mohler speaks with founder and director of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding, Professor Hadley Arkes, about his most recent book “Mere Natural Law: Originalism and the Anchoring Truths of the Constitution.”
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| 0:00.0 | This is Thinking in Public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about |
| 0:04.8 | frontline theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them. |
| 0:08.8 | I'm Albert Mueller, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. |
| 0:14.0 | Hadley Arcus is the founder and director of the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American |
| 0:19.0 | founding. After earning his PhD from the University of Chicago, Professor Arcus began a 50-year-long teaching career at Amherst College, |
| 0:27.2 | where he served as the Edward Ney Professor of Juris Prudence. |
| 0:30.4 | In addition to his teaching, Professor Arcus has been a sought-after voice on issues of American |
| 0:34.9 | legal philosophy, American history, constitutionalism. |
| 0:38.5 | He's written for outlets like the Wall Street Journal, National Review, and the Journal First Things. |
| 0:43.7 | He's the author of eight books, but it's his most recent book, |
| 0:46.8 | Mere Natural Law, that is the topic of our conversation today. |
| 0:50.8 | Hadley Arcus has been a conversation partner for me through his books for a long time. |
| 0:56.3 | Professor Arcus, welcome today to thinking in public. |
| 0:59.3 | Oh, Reverend Nella, thanks so much for having me in. |
| 1:02.1 | I'm so touched by me. I can't believe you've been reading my books all these years. |
| 1:06.5 | And that was such a heartfelt meeting in Miami when I first met you in a picture together. |
| 1:12.1 | It's, thanks for having me and it's so good to be here with you. |
| 1:14.8 | Well, I'm really, really thrilled with this because it's one thing to have a conversation |
| 1:19.4 | with a man through his books. |
| 1:21.2 | It's another thing to have a conversation in person and in this case |
| 1:25.2 | eventually in public. The occasion is your most recent book, |
| 1:29.4 | near natural law, originalism, and the anchoring truce of the Constitution. |
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