Moral Choices (with Scott Rae)

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

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In this episode, Sean interviews Scott about the latest update to his classic book Moral Choices. Scott reflects on how ethical issues have changed over the past few decades, some areas where he has refined his thinking, and offers some insights on pressing moral issues today such as climate change and euthanasia. Scott B. Rae (PhD, University of Southern California) is professor of Christian ethics at Talbot School of Theology, Biola University, La Mirada, California. R...

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Welcome to the podcast Think Vivically, Conversations on Faith and Culture.
0:09.7	I'm your host, Sean McDowell, Professor of Christian Apologetics at
0:13.3	Howitz School Theology Biola University. Now at this point my co-host was
0:18.5	about to jump in and introduce himself and I cut him off because actually Scott Ray is going to be on the
0:26.7	hot seat today because of our topic.
0:30.1	So I'm glad you're here.
0:31.1	I hope you're a little bit nervous
0:33.0	because I'm gonna ask the toughest questions
0:36.0	and we'll see how you think on the spot.
0:37.7	Actually, that's not true.
0:38.8	Yeah, so give me your best shot.
0:40.6	Exactly.
0:42.0	We are gonna talk about your your book Moral Choices, which just came out in a fourth edition.
0:47.0	Congratulations, by the way. First edition came out in 1995. I was a student at Biola during this time and let me ask you this kind of as we
0:57.8	start why did you first write this book which I would consider by the way when
1:02.3	people ask me give me one kind of
1:04.8	text that deals with moral issues of the day thoughtfully bibically philosophically
1:10.3	I consistently point to moral choices, but what was the impetus for writing this in the first place?
1:16.1	I saw a couple things that I felt like needed to be addressed.
1:20.0	One is in just in the field of ethics in general.
1:24.0	Books either were about theory or they were about the issues.
1:29.0	Books that were about theory were, for the most part,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.