This is thinking in public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about frontline

theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them.

I'm Albert Moller, your host and

president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

Stanley Howard was is the Gilbert T Rowe Professor Emeritus of Theological

Ethics at Duke University where he holds appointments in both the

Divinity School and the Law School.

He has written an entire library of articles and books dating from 1969 to the present.

He is a board member of the Society of Christian

ethics. He's associate editor of a number of Christian journals and periodicals and

a frequent lecture at campuses across the country. He holds his PhD from Yale

University and a doctor of divinity from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

His most recent work is approaching the end, S-catological reflections on church, politics,

and life.

Professor Howard was, you have been an ongoing conversation partner with me, perhaps without even

knowing it.

I read everything you're right and always find a great deal in it that makes me to think.

Sometimes quite frankly, that aggravates me other times

that that pleases me. You are one of the most unusual writers and thinkers that I

engage with quite regularly. Your newest book is entitled

approaching the end, eschatological reflections on church,

politics, and life. How in the world did you get there?

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