Dr. Williams loves enlarging students' understanding and enjoyment of God while teaching Theology 1 and 2 courses at Biola University. He also teaches History of Atheism, Introduction to Philosophy, and Biblical Literature in the secular college context. He has taught theology internationally, including seminaries in Nepal and Francis Schaeffer's L'Abri ministries in Switzerland and Holland. Dr. Williams is a frequent guest speaker at churches and conferences, in addition to serving as a teaching pastor at a local church. His academic works include Love, Freedom, and Evil (Rodopi, 2011), used in seminaries around the world and currently being translated to German, and his recent popular publication, The Exchange (AIMBooks, 2012). His research interests include the Trinity, divine and human agency, dialogue with atheists and theology of culture.
Social Justice, Wokeness, and the Christian Worldview - Thaddeus William on BreakPoint Podcast
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
Social Justice is making claims that are turning America's streets into war zones. Some of these claims refer to a "color blind upbringing", where an individual raised in a community predominantly homogenous in ethnicity is an example of "white privilege" and therefore a form of racism.
Thaddeus Williams has written an important book, "Confronting Injustice Without Compromising Truth". Dr. Williams is an Associate Professor of Theology at Biola University.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint Podcast. I'm John Stone Street. Today I want to share with you a very important and very fascinating interview that my Break Point this week co-host, Shane Morris, conducted with Thaddeus Williams on the Upstream podcast. |
| 0:16.5 | If you don't know about the Upstream podcast, it is a weekly interview that Shane conducts with some of the great thinkers and authors of our day. |
| 0:24.9 | And Dr. Thaddeus Williams is a professor at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University in California. |
| 0:31.5 | And he's written, I think, one of the more important books already in 2021. |
| 0:36.8 | It has to do with the issue of justice. Right now, that is a word |
| 0:41.1 | that is used, but rarely defined. And when it is defined, it often carries along with it a baggage |
| 0:47.0 | of all kinds of bad ideas coming from false worldviews. But that doesn't mean we can abandon the |
| 0:53.6 | idea of justice or even the idea of social justice, |
| 0:57.5 | which is even a more loaded term in our culture today. |
| 1:01.9 | Dr. Williams' book is called Confronting Injustice without Compromising Truth. |
| 1:06.3 | It's our featured resource for the month of February here at the Colston Center. |
| 1:10.2 | For a gift of any amount to the Colson Center for a gift of any amount |
| 1:11.6 | to the Colson Center. We'll send you a copy of this book. And Dr. Williams is also leading |
| 1:16.5 | a four-week short course every Tuesday night starting February the 16th for the next four weeks, |
| 1:23.1 | beginning at 8 o'clock Eastern Time. You can listen to this short course live by coming to |
| 1:31.1 | breakpoint.org slash Williams and registering. The first week is absolutely free, and from there, |
| 1:38.8 | there's a small cost to join the rest of the course. Each, as a registrant, you'll not only have access to the live sessions, |
| 1:46.1 | you also have access to the recordings, |
| 1:48.0 | and you also have access to any handouts, PowerPoint files, or anything else that is shared by Dr. Williams. |
| 1:54.0 | Again, go to breakpoint.org slash Williams. |
| 1:56.6 | I'm really excited for you to listen to this terrific interview with Shane Morris and Dr. Thaddeus Williams here on the Breakpoint podcast. |
| 2:07.7 | Welcome to the Upstream podcast. I'm Shane Morris. When I was growing up, I was taught to sing a song, you will all no doubt know. |
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