Hello and welcome to Sociology 101. Today we're going to do something a little bit different. You are all very used to me going through Calvinism, but what we're going to do today is actually listen to

a Lutheran, Dr. Jordan Cooper, talk about Lutheranism from his perspective.

I'm just recognizing that I don't think my microphone is on the right microphone here,

which is aggravating, but I'm assuming that you're still able to hear me, and so I'm going to

continue on here. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to go ahead and play Dr. Cooper

speaking about tulip theology, and you're going to be able to hear him for yourselves.

And while we listen to that, I may be able to change my microphone over so that it, oh, it does sound fine.

Okay. It just says it's the wrong microphone on my input for some reason.

And so I need to figure out why that is. So I'm glad you can hear me.

Okay, well, we're going to start by playing Dr. Jordan Cooper here and make sure, let me know if you can hear him okay. Hopefully it's coming through all right. And we'll listen to him talk about tulip. And he explains how tulip is compared to and contrasted with what he claims is the Lutheran theology.

And I'm just going to present this question as to whether what he is saying is contradictory or a paradox.

Because he refers to it by the end of it. He just says this is just a paradox, which by the way,

the definition of the word paradox is a seemingly absurd

or self-contradictory statement or proposition

that when investigated or explained

may prove to be well-founded or true.

Now, he's about to explain it.

And so you have to ask yourself,

does his explanation take away the seeming

absurdity and self-contradictory statements that he's going to be giving? And I honestly don't think

that he meets that criteria. I think what he says sounds very contradictory. But again, I admit right

up front, I am learning Lutheranism for the first time, and I'm trying to be fair to my brother here.

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