Faith, Reason and Western Civilization (with Samuel Gregg)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

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

Talbot, Church, Christianity, Christian, Culture, Biola, Sean Mcdowell, Religion & Spirituality, Scott Rae, Think Biblically

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🗓️ 6 February 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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The naïve and increasingly common assumption that reason and faith are incompatible is simply at odds with the facts of history. The revelation in the Hebrew Scriptures of a reasonable Creator imbued Judaism and Christianity with a conviction that the world is intelligible, leading to the flowering of reason and the invention of science in the West. It was no accident that the Enlightenment took place in the culture formed by the Jewish and Christian faiths. Join us as we talk with Dr. Sam Gr...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the podcast Think Biblical
0:03.6	Biblically, Conversations on Faith and Culture. I'm your host Scott Ray,
0:07.5	Dean of faculty and professor of Christian ethics at Talbot School of
0:10.6	Theology, Biola University.
0:13.5	We're here today with Dr. Sam Gregg,
0:15.2	who is the director of research for the Acton Institute
0:18.8	in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
0:21.2	Born and raised in Australia, educated at the University of Melbourne, Dr. Defill, Dr. Philosophy from the University of Oxford in the UK and has lived in the United States here since 2001.
0:34.0	So maybe not exactly a total citizen of the world but pretty close.
0:39.0	I feel like a citizen of the Anglo world.
0:42.0	In the Anglo world.
0:43.0	Yeah.
0:44.0	He's the author of several books.
0:47.0	In fact, if we were to list them, it would take way too much time here.
0:50.0	But there are two that I want to point out.
0:52.0	I think it might be a particular interest to our listeners.
0:54.8	The two that I found the most helpful of your books
0:57.8	are your book entitled Becoming Europe,
1:01.0	which is a fascinating work in subtitle Economic Decline Culture and how America
1:05.8	can avoid a European future.
1:08.6	But the one that in my view is the most helpful of all your books is your book on banking called For God and
1:14.6	Profits how banking and finance can serve the common good. I may have a question or
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