Born to Wonder (with Alister McGrath)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

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🗓️ 6 August 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Why do humans wonder so deeply about the nature and purpose of the world? And what does this tell us about what it means to be human? In this episode, Sean and Scott interview Oxford professor Alister McGrath about his latest book. McGrath makes a powerful case that naturalism is insufficient to account for the universal human sense of wonder and that this feature of the world points us to Christianity. Dr. Alister McGrath teaches in the areas of theology and science at Oxford Univers...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the podcast Think Biblically, conversations on faith and culture.
0:06.7	I'm your host Sean McDow, professor of apologetics at Taub School of Theology
0:10.9	Biola University.
0:12.6	And I'm your co-host, Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty, and Professor of Christian Ethics,
0:16.7	also at tablet School of Theology here at Biola University.
0:20.7	We're here today with a guest that I have been looking forward to having on the show for a while.
0:24.7	He's the author of multiple books.
0:27.0	You'll recognize his name is Dr. Alistair McGrath, and he's a professor in science and religion at the University of Oxford.
0:36.1	He's written a wonderful new book and the pun is intended because it's called Born to Wonder.
0:42.2	And I can't wait to unpack this with him.
0:44.4	Dr. McGrath, thanks so much for joining us today.
0:46.8	Well, it's great to be with you.
0:48.0	Thank you for having me.
0:49.0	Yeah, you betcha.
0:51.0	This is a book about Wonder, I love yet you include in it some of your
0:55.8	journey from atheism to Christianity that was initially intellectual and then it seems
1:02.1	that this fascination and this intrigue with
1:05.0	wonder kind of takes off from there. Would you mind sharing your journey, your
1:09.0	conversion of Christianity, and then how it shapes the writing of this book?
1:13.0	Sure, I'd love to do that.
1:15.0	When I was at high school, I was doing the natural sciences,
1:18.0	and it just seemed obvious to me that,
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