Providence, Power, and Destiny: Winston Churchill and Christian Belief — A Conversation with Gary Scott Smith
Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 20 October 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is thinking in public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about |
| 0:09.9 | frontline theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm Albert Mowle, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. |
| 0:19.0 | Gary Scott Smith is the retired chairman of the history department at Grove City College, where he taught for many decades. |
| 0:25.7 | He is currently a research fellow for the Institute for Faith and Freedom. |
| 0:29.6 | Professor Smith did his undergraduate degree in psychology. He later earned a master of divinity from Gordon |
| 0:35.0 | Conwell Theological Seminary and a PhD in American history from Johns Hopkins University. |
| 0:40.9 | He's an award-winning professor for his teaching and academic excellence in the classroom. |
| 0:44.8 | He's also the author of numerous books including Faith in the Presidency, from George Washington |
| 0:49.3 | to George W Bush and Heaven in the American Imagination, which was the topic of a previous thinking in public. |
| 0:55.8 | I enjoyed that conversation with Professor Smith, but this conversation is about his most recent book, |
| 1:00.6 | Duty and Destiny, The Life and Faith of Winston Churchill. |
| 1:04.4 | That book is the topic of our conversation today. |
| 1:07.1 | Professor Gary Scott Smith, welcome to thinking in public. |
| 1:10.8 | Thank you, Al, it's a pleasure to be with you. You know, anyone who knows me knows that I have long been inspired by the example of Winston Churchill is one of the figures who looms large in the background of my thinking |
| 1:24.4 | much like Luther does in another way and I say that as a Baptist and as an American |
| 1:31.6 | those are those are two very important heroes to me. And one of the issues |
| 1:36.7 | about Churchill that has been continuously controversial and about which there is a great confusion of opinion and judgment is Churchill and |
| 1:46.5 | Christianity. Your most recent book and I want to commend it duty and |
| 1:50.0 | destiny the life and faith of Winston Churchill deals with these questions and you know my |
| 1:55.4 | favorite a line in your book in describing Churchill's faith is that you say it's |
| 2:00.0 | complicated and slippery his approach to religion. |
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