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Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Religious Liberty for All (with Andrew Walker)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

Christian, Talbot, Church, Culture, Biola, Think Biblically, Christianity, Sean Mcdowell, Scott Rae, Religion & Spirituality

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Is religious liberty important for all people, including Jews, Muslims, and Hindus, or just Christians? How do we make a public case for the importance of religious liberty? In this interview, Sean and Scott talk with Dr. Andrew Walker about his latest book Liberty for All: Defending Everyone's Religious Freedom in a Pluralistic Age. Andrew Walker is an associate professor of Christian ethics at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He previously served as senior fellow for the Eth...

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0:00.0

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

0:06.9

Theology Biola University.

0:09.3

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

0:13.0

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

0:15.2

and Professor of Christian Ethics.

0:17.3

We have a guest today to talk about a topic

0:19.1

we've covered a number of times on the ThinkBiblically

0:22.2

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

0:26.5

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

0:32.1

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

0:35.4

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.

0:46.8

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

0:50.4

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

0:57.0

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

1:04.2

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

1:09.6

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

1:16.2

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

1:30.9

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

1:38.0

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

1:44.0

if we were going to think about religious liberty

1:46.0

from kind of an internal conversation,

1:50.0

how we as Christians would talk about it,

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