Welcome to ThinkBiblically, Conversations on Faith and Culture, a podcast from Talbot School of Theology at Biola University.

I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics.

And I'm your co-host Sean McDowell Professor of Apologetics.

We're here today with our special guest Dr Brent Waters who is the Stead

Professor of Christian Social Ethics and Director of the Stead's Center for Ethics and

Values at Garrett Evangelical Seminary outside Chicago in Evanston, Illinois.

He's the author of numerous books on the intersection of Christian theology and ethics that has to do with

bioethics, technology, and in his most recent book on the ethical issues related to the marketplace entitled Just Capitalism.

Those of our listeners who have been with us for a while may remember a couple years ago

we had Brent on for two sessions when his book on just capitalism came out initially.

Today we'd like to focus on one specific aspect of that book.

It's the ending chapter on the issues related to the environment and climate change.

So Brent, welcome, first of all, really glad to have you with us.

Thanks for taking the time to hang out with us for these 25, 30 minutes.

Glad to be with you.

So just to give our listeners some context, since this discussion of climate change comes from your book

Just Capitalism what if you had to summarize sort of the big idea the big takeaway of your

book overall what would it be?

Well the big idea your book overall, what would it be?

Well, the big idea of 1A is that capitalism is not

incompatible with Christian teaching so long as it's

ordered correctly. And what I mean by that is ordered fair competition, rule by law,

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