The Remaking of a Modern Mind: A Conversation with Thomas Oden
Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2015
⏱️ 62 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is thinking in public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about |
| 0:07.8 | frontline theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping |
| 0:11.3 | them. I'm Albert Moller, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, |
| 0:17.0 | Kentucky. |
| 0:18.0 | Thomas Oden has lived one of the most interesting lives of the 20th century and into the 21st. |
| 0:22.0 | He is now the general editor of the ancient |
| 0:24.5 | Christian commentary on scripture and the ancient Christian doctrine series. |
| 0:28.0 | He's also the director of the Center for Early African Christianity at Eastern |
| 0:31.8 | University in Pennsylvania. |
| 0:33.2 | For many years, he was professor of theology, |
| 0:35.4 | the graduate school of Drew University. |
| 0:38.1 | His most recent book, A Change of Heart, |
| 0:40.1 | a personal and theological memoir, |
| 0:41.8 | is one of the most moving Christian |
| 0:43.6 | autographies I have ever read and I'm really looking forward to this conversation |
| 0:48.0 | with Dr. Thomas C. Odin. |
| 0:50.0 | Dr. Odin when you wrote your book a Change of Heart, a personal and theological memoir, you |
| 0:56.0 | told a story that only you could tell. |
| 0:59.6 | And that's not just in terms of the fact that the particulars of your life are unique to yourself, but rather |
| 1:05.7 | the theological trajectory you trace is one that was only possible in the 20th century. |
| 1:12.0 | How did you come to decide this was the way to tell your story? |
| 1:18.0 | I didn't want to tell my story. |
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