How Does Christ Save Us? w/ Prof. Ross McCullough (Off-Campus Conversations)

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🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Join Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. of Aquinas 101, Godsplaining, and Pints with Aquinas for an off-campus conversation with Prof. Ross McCullough. How Does Christ Save Us? w/ Prof. Ross McCullough and Fr. Gregory Pine (Off-Campus Conversations) You can listen to the original lecture here: https://soundcloud.com/thomisticinstitute/making-sense-of-the-atonement-prof-ross-mccullough For more information please visit thomisticinstitute.org. About the speaker: Ross McCullough joined George Fox University as an assistant professor of theology and faculty fellow in the George Fox University Honors Program in 2018. He studied patristic theology at the University of Notre Dame before doing a doctorate at Yale University at the intersection of systematic theology and analytic philosophy of religion. Dr. McCullough's first book, Freedom and Sin: Evil in a World Created by God (Eerdmans, 2022) reconciles traditional Christian commitments to, on the one hand, God causing all that is and, on the other, God in no way being responsible for sin. He also has academic publications on the doctrine of hell, the Eucharist, the hermeneutics of Scripture, and liberation theology. His popular articles have appeared in First Things, Commonweal, and America Magazine, among other venues. Dr. McCullough lives with his wife and four children across the street from St. Peter parish in Newberg, where he is on the pastoral council and leads RCIA.

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0:00.0	Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine, and I'm a Dominican Frye of the province of St. Joseph,
0:13.5	and welcome back to the Timistic Institute podcast for this most recent installment of off-campus'
0:19.3	conversations. The point of which is to follow up with the Thomistic Institute speaker,
0:24.3	who will have given a lecture on campus or at a retreat or conference,
0:28.3	and pursue some of the insights that were proposed in that setting.
0:32.3	Yeah, suss out the arguments and see what comes of it.
0:35.0	So for this episode, I'm very delighted to be joined by
0:37.8	Professor Ross McCullough. So thanks so much for joining. Thank you. So folks will know you from
0:43.9	the lecture, which came out recently on the Thomistic Institute podcast on Atonement. But for those who don't,
0:49.7	would you just say a word, who you are, where you're from, what you do? Yeah, I'm a, so I'm an assistant
0:56.7	professor of theology at George Fox University, which is outside Portland, Oregon. And my
1:02.7	background is in philosophical theology. My first book is called Freedom and Sin. And it's about
1:08.1	essentially how you explain sin in a world that's caused by God,
1:14.1	in a kind of robust, to mystic way, where God is the immediate cause of all that exists in the
1:19.2	world. How do you make sense of sin and our ability to disobey God in some sense in that world?
1:25.7	So that was my dissertation and now book. But I'm interested in
1:32.4	broadly sort of philosophical theological questions across a range of things, including
1:37.3	including soteriology and atonement, which I spoke about at Oregon, what, a couple months,
1:41.8	a month or two ago. Oh, okay. Are you by any chance from Oregon,
1:46.6	or did you find yourself there because the job was there? I'm from Seattle, the Seattle area.
1:51.6	So I'm three and a half hours from my parents and from my in-laws. My wife's also from Seattle.
1:57.1	Awesome. Okay. My parents met and married in Portland, Oregon, but they haven't lived there for over 40 years.
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