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🗓️ 21 August 2024
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There's a lot of conversation about the end of the world, the end of civilization, and the end times at the moment, and this conversation, even amongst non-Christians is shaped by Christian eschatology that has seeped into out culture. C.R. Wiley joins us to break down three historical views of a future apocalypse that have a big impact on how people think about current affairs, foreign policy, and future events.
C.R. Wiley has written a number of books and can be heard on the weekly Theology PugCast discussing topics like these.
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0:00.0 | I don't know how much thought you give to the end of the world, but the way that you think about |
0:04.8 | it is kind of a big deal. The way that you think about the future is going to have a major |
0:09.5 | impact on the things that you do in the present. |
0:18.5 | Welcome back to the T-Rex Talk podcast. |
0:22.7 | I have a guest with me today. |
0:27.9 | And Dr. Wiley, you have done several podcasts today, I believe. |
0:30.8 | So thank you so much for coming on to this podcast. |
0:36.3 | As you know, we've talked before about T-Rex and the T-Rex audience. |
0:41.1 | I would love it if you could talk about eschatology. |
0:45.1 | Help us open that can of worms and discuss some of these things because there's a lot of conversation online that is important, but oftentimes feels a little bit uninformed by |
0:52.3 | history. |
1:00.9 | And a lot of people have presuppositions and preconceived notions and worldview that they may not know where it came from. |
1:05.7 | So how would you like to start this controversial area? |
1:12.0 | Yeah, yeah, this is one of those minefields, particularly in American evangelicalism, not so much in other parts of the world and other kind of pockets of Christianity historically. |
1:17.6 | By the way, I'm not a doctor, just so you know, Isaac, I am a senior editor at Touchstone |
1:24.7 | Magazine. |
1:25.4 | I've written a lot of things in a number of books, but |
1:27.7 | I was in a doctoral program at Harvard and dropped out, so I'm one of those guys. I wondered if |
1:34.1 | you had been pushed out. I think we have a mutual friend, Bill Potter, who was doing his |
1:40.6 | doctorate program, and then his thesis was politically acceptable when he started |
1:45.6 | it was not political acceptable by the time he finished so where was he i can't even |
1:51.8 | recall it was somewhere in the south where uh his his military history studies were were going |
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