Climate Change in Christian Perspective (with Brent Waters)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

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

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🗓️ 19 August 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Climate change has been one of the most debated subjects around the world in recent years, with various opinions about its reality, origins and dangers. Join Scott and Sean as they interview theologian Brent Waters about his insightful take on climate change from a distinctly Christian view of the world, that comes out of his book, Just Capitalism. Dr. Brent Waters is Stead Professor of Christian Social Ethics and Director of the Stead Center for Ethics and Values at Garrett Evangelical...

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0:00.0	Welcome to ThinkBiblically, Conversations on Faith and Culture, a podcast from Talbot School of Theology at Biola University.
0:08.0	I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics.
0:12.0	And I'm your co-host Sean McDowell Professor of Apologetics.
0:15.0	We're here today with our special guest Dr Brent Waters who is the Stead
0:19.8	Professor of Christian Social Ethics and Director of the Stead's Center for Ethics and
0:24.0	Values at Garrett Evangelical Seminary outside Chicago in Evanston, Illinois.
0:28.8	He's the author of numerous books on the intersection of Christian theology and ethics that has to do with
0:35.9	bioethics, technology, and in his most recent book on the ethical issues related to the marketplace entitled Just Capitalism.
0:45.0	Those of our listeners who have been with us for a while may remember a couple years ago
0:50.0	we had Brent on for two sessions when his book on just capitalism came out initially.
0:55.9	Today we'd like to focus on one specific aspect of that book.
1:01.1	It's the ending chapter on the issues related to the environment and climate change.
1:07.0	So Brent, welcome, first of all, really glad to have you with us.
1:12.0	Thanks for taking the time to hang out with us for these 25, 30 minutes.
1:17.0	Glad to be with you.
1:19.0	So just to give our listeners some context, since this discussion of climate change comes from your book
1:24.5	Just Capitalism what if you had to summarize sort of the big idea the big takeaway of your
1:30.1	book overall what would it be?
1:32.3	Well the big idea your book overall, what would it be?
1:34.0	Well, the big idea of 1A is that capitalism is not
1:38.6	incompatible with Christian teaching so long as it's
1:41.2	ordered correctly. And what I mean by that is ordered fair competition, rule by law,
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