Monday, December 4, 2023
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 18:56)
The Massive Legacy of Henry Kissinger: Realpolitik and Its Influence on America's Foreign Policy in the 20th Century
Part II (18:56 - 20:00)
Secular Moral Realism Is Not Enough: The Theological Problem Behind Henry Kissinger’s Realism
Part III (20:00 - 27:55)
A Consequential Voice on the Supreme Court: The Mixed Legacy of Sandra Day O’Connor
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, |
| 0:05.0 | Monday, December 4, 2023. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events |
| 0:11.5 | from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.4 | There is so much for us to consider this week. |
| 0:16.2 | Later in the week we're going to discuss what is going on right now in Israel, as Israel |
| 0:21.4 | has gone back on the offensive against Hamas in Gaza and for good reason |
| 0:26.2 | on very good grounds. We're going to be discussing that and the meaning of those events and |
| 0:30.4 | we're going to be putting it in the larger context of how American |
| 0:34.2 | evangelicals and others are thinking through some of these issues. But most pressing |
| 0:38.5 | coming out of the weekend is a consideration of two lives that were very |
| 0:42.0 | consequential and a third that is very controversial. |
| 0:46.4 | Now just as we start that's a good distinction to make. |
| 0:49.1 | There are lives that are consequential and there are lives that are controversial. |
| 0:53.0 | Most consequential lives are controversial in some sense, |
| 0:56.1 | but some controversial lives are not really consequential |
| 1:00.0 | on the grand stage of history. |
| 1:01.9 | So we're going to be talking about Henry Kissinger, |
| 1:04.0 | the late Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, |
| 1:05.8 | and we're going to be talking about the former US |
| 1:07.9 | representative from the third district of New York, |
| 1:11.0 | George Santos, or at least we think it's George Santos, but we're going to have to |
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