Christians and War
Thinking Fellows
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4.8 • 869 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2017
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
On this episode, the fellows have a military historian, Caleb Karges on the show to talk about Just War Theory. The fellows get into the history, and context of just war theory and try to bring the war on terror into perspective. Sit back, relax, grab a drink, and enjoy the show.
Show Notes
•Luther: Christians Can Be Soldiers
•Roark Denver: Worth Dying For: A Navy Seal's Call to a Nation
•Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast. Now, this is Scott Keith. You're probably missing the voice of Caleb Keith this week. He's feeling under the weather. So we decided to replace him with another Caleb, Caleb Cargis, Dr. Caleb Cargis, will be joining us today. Caleb, can you tell us a little bit about yourself? Just give us a brief introduction, and then we'll talk about the topic of the show today. |
| 0:24.5 | I could say how when I first met you, it was mowing lawns on a riding tractor mower at the |
| 0:29.9 | back of Bethlehem Lutheran School for your dad, who was the principal at the church where my kids went. |
| 0:35.9 | Yeah, I think when Scott and I first met, I was in |
| 0:38.7 | high school in northern Nevada back in the early 2000s. And one of my summer jobs was to mow the lawn |
| 0:47.1 | at the church school. So if you haven't guessed, I grew up in northern Nevada. |
| 0:54.6 | Carson City, Dayton, right? |
| 0:55.9 | Yeah, Dayton outside of Carson City. |
| 0:57.7 | So usually when people don't know, I tell them I live close to Reno or Lake Tahoe. |
| 1:02.1 | Yeah, I say Lake Tahoe. |
| 1:03.0 | Oh, Lake Tahoe. |
| 1:03.4 | Like, I just lived down in that. |
| 1:05.8 | I just always call it the Lake Tahoe area. |
| 1:07.6 | It kind of solves the conundrum for people. Yeah, I found out when I came down here |
| 1:12.4 | to do my bachelor's degree at Concordia, I'd tell people I was from Carson, and I didn't know there was |
| 1:18.0 | a Carson, California. Oh, down in L.A., yeah. Yeah, and they're like, oh, you're from Carson, California. |
| 1:24.8 | Where's that? No. There's only one Carson in my mind. It has 60,000 people and |
| 1:30.9 | one Walmart, now too. But after I did my BA in history at Concordia Irvine, and then I moved on to do |
| 1:39.7 | my master's and doctorate at the University of St. Andrews. I specialized in Austrian and British military |
| 1:46.8 | history. Wow. How'd you get into that? I mean, what was the sort of impetus for you wanting to |
| 1:51.5 | do military history? I was always fascinated by it as a kid. I always played with toy soldiers. |
| 1:59.6 | And my dad had like a, he actually had a helmet liner from World War II, and I just put that on and go out into our backyard and dig foxholes and just sit in it with a toy gun. |
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