Welcome to Think Bibbically, Conversations on Faith and Culture, a podcast from Taubal School

Theology Biola University.

I'm your host, Sean McDow, Professor of Apologetics.

And I'm your co-host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty

and Professor of Christian Ethics.

We have a guest today to talk about a topic

we've covered a number of times on the ThinkBiblically

podcast, but never from the angle we're going to look at it today.

It's one of the most pressing kind of political and cultural issues, which is religious liberty.

Our guest, Dr. Andrew Walker, has written a recent book that just

came out called Liberty for All, and he takes a theological look at this, which was so fresh and interesting. So Dr. Walker, thanks for coming on.

Sean and Scott, it's great to be with you and thanks for the invitation.

So tell us a little bit more about the unique approach you take to religious liberty in this book.

Sure, so the whole project actually originated out of my dissertation, which I should go ahead and say up front the book is

it's an adaptation of my dissertation but it's been removed all of the dry

academic minutia has been removed so it's a little bit more readable and acceptable. But it began out of my

dissertation and basically me asking the question of how have evangelicals thought about religious liberty and as I did that research I really came to the conclusion that they've thought about it more as a result of

thinking about the Constitution or thinking about it in kind of broad general theistic categories, but

nothing particularly tied to the biblical storyline. And so I kind of said out to ask the question,

if we were going to think about religious liberty

from kind of an internal conversation,

how we as Christians would talk about it,

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