Grace-Filled Naturalism (Robert Wright & Roger Haight)

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🗓️ 8 November 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Why Pope John Paul II did not like Roger's book Jesus Symbol of God ... Roger's new book, Faith and Evolution: Grace-Filled Naturalism ... The intractability of the problem of evil ... Ways to understand God not as a big person in the sky ... Is natural selection an instrument of divine creation? ... Roger's heterodox view of Jesus of Nazareth ... Roger's problem with original sin ... What is a "grace-filled naturalism"? ...

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0:00.0	You're listening to a podcast from Meaning of Life TV.
0:08.6	Hi, Roger.
0:10.3	Hi, Bob.
0:11.5	How are you?
0:12.9	I'm pretty good, actually.
0:14.4	You sound surprised.
0:17.1	Yeah, well, it's middle of the semester and we're slogging along, you know.
0:22.1	Okay, so, and you're teaching at Union Theological Seminary.
0:26.7	I am indeed.
0:27.4	In New York.
0:28.1	Where I should say...
0:28.7	Did there for 15 years.
0:30.7	Where I also have an affiliation, although your affiliation, unlike mine, seems to involve actual work at Union, or more of it than I do.
0:41.4	Let me introduce this. I'm Robert Wright. This is the Right Show available on both streaming video and via audio podcast.
0:48.2	You are Robert, I'm sorry, you're Roger Haight, a theologian of some renown. You've, you're at Union Theological Seminary,
1:00.5	you've written a number of books. We're going to talk about one of them, a new one called
1:04.1	Faith and Evolution, a Grace-filled Naturalism, which I'm holding up to the camera right now for
1:09.1	people who are watching this and not just
1:10.9	listening to it. You also wrote a book called Jesus' symbol of God, which got you into a certain
1:18.3	amount of trouble with Catholic authorities, I gather. You're a Jesuit. I am a Jesuit,
1:24.7	a priest and theologian. Before we talk about your new book,
1:30.2	why don't we talk a little about
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