Evangelicalism, Elites, and Excellence with Aaron Renn
Life and Books and Everything
Clearly Reformed
4.6 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Coming out of a consulting background, Aaron Renn is now a regular contributor to many important conversations among Christians and conservatives. In this interview, Kevin asks Aaron about the three worlds of evangelicalism and how we should think about elites. They also discuss where evangelicalism has faltered and where it has been too hard on itself.
Intro & Sponsor [0:00-1:37]
Guest: Aaron Renn [1:38-7:47]
Rose-Colored Rural Areas [7:48-10:29]
What Does Western Society Think of the Church? [10:30-23:50]
Evangelical Self-Flaggellation [23:51-26:50]
Do Evangelicals Lack Cultural Influence? [26:51-34:48]
The Evangelical "Middle-Class Mindset" [34:49-40:24]
A Call to Lay Intellectual Engagement [40:25-50:44]
Sponsor 2 [50:45-51:30]
Evangelicals and Elites [51:31-59:22]
Constantine and "Christian Nationalism" [59:23-1:08:31]
Final Plugs [1:08:32-1:10:39]
The Right: The Hundred-Year War for American Conservatism - Matthew Continetti
The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 - George Nash
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and salutations, welcome to life and books and everything. I'm Kevin DeYoung, |
| 0:18.6 | and perhaps I sound a little bit more in the base register. |
| 0:23.8 | I was thought I would pay good money to have Liggin Duncan's preaching voice, booming, echoing around. |
| 0:30.8 | But this is just cold infection. |
| 0:35.7 | Maybe it was strep, I'm not sure. |
| 0:40.1 | So hopefully it just sounds manly, |
| 0:46.1 | especially considering the guest we have who has written often about masculine things. |
| 0:53.4 | I'll introduce him in just a moment, but want to mention a new book by Crossway. I'm sure many, |
| 0:57.9 | maybe most of the listeners have read some book by Paul David Tripp. |
| 1:00.5 | I know I've read many of his books, most of them. |
| 1:06.0 | His new book, Reactivity, How the Gospel Transforms Our Actions and Reactions. |
| 1:13.6 | So he's looking at digital media, technology, how these train us to act in certain ways, react in certain ways. What does it look like to live a gospel life with cancel culture and the ways that digital media stir us up to fear and anger? |
| 1:25.6 | So reactivity, wherever you can find books, and you can go to crossway.org |
| 1:30.3 | slash plus to sign up for their plus account, and you get 30% off. So thank you to Crossway. |
| 1:37.3 | Our guest this morning, at least this morning as I'm recording it, is Aaron Ren. |
| 1:44.2 | Aaron, thanks for being on the program. |
| 1:46.9 | I have a friend of mine recommended the masculinist a few years ago. |
| 1:54.6 | And so I read that, started listening to your podcast, reading the articles, your substack, and then the piece that we'll talk |
| 2:04.1 | about in a moment that I think you're most well known for, at least at this point, is your |
| 2:08.0 | three world of evangelicalism piece. You do lots of other good stuff. So I've appreciated listening |
| 2:13.6 | and reading your stuff. And one of the things I say to people is I like listening |
| 2:19.1 | to people who I feel like our worldview overlaps, and yet we're not into the identical stuff. |
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