To the Law and the Courts: Take Religious Freedom Seriously (with Frank Beckwith)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

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

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🗓️ 4 July 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In our culture in the US today, religion is viewed as, at best, a harmless hobby, and at worst, a danger to society that must be marginalized. Join this conversation with Scott and church-state specialist and philosopher, Dr. Frank Beckwith, as they discuss how the courts and the law can take religious beliefs more seriously and protect religious freedom more consistently. This conversation comes out of his recent book, Taking Rites Seriously: Law, Politics and the Reasonableness of Faith.&nb...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the podcast, Think Biblically, Conversations on Faith and Culture.
0:06.2	I'm your host Scott Ray, Professor of Christian Ethics and Dean of the Faculty
0:10.2	at Talbot School of Theology at Biola University.
0:16.0	We're here today at the meetings of the Evangelical Theological
0:18.0	Theological Society, where we get a chance to talk,
0:21.0	to gather all of the, sort the big hitters in terms of theology and philosophy and
0:25.6	biblical studies from our evangelical movement.
0:28.8	I'm so grateful that our guest today Dr. Frank Beckwith is not only here at ETS but has agreed to take time
0:34.4	out of his schedule to take time for the podcast today. Frank, thank you so much for being
0:39.7	with us on this. I'm delighted to be here, Scott. Thank you.
0:42.4	Frank is professor of philosophy and church. us on this. I'm delighted to be here Scott. Thank you.
0:42.5	Frankie's professor of philosophy and church state relations at Baylor
0:46.3	University. He's been there for over a decade now right? 16th year.
0:50.3	Yeah. And he has I mean he has more books and journal articles than we know what to do with it would take most of our time here to outline those but what I what I do want to point out is that Frank has had the chance to publish in a lot of different venues
1:05.0	that the average Christian philosopher doesn't get to do.
1:08.0	Lots of law journal publications, lots of public affairs and public policy types of journals.
1:17.0	Specialty really is in the area of the intersection of law, politics, and religious faith.
1:23.4	And so that's what his latest book is about, which I want to talk about today.
1:27.8	It's called Taking Rights, RITES, seriously, law politics and the reasonableness of faith.
1:35.0	So first of all, tell me what you mean by that title,
1:39.0	Taking Rights, RITES, seriously.
1:42.0	Well, there's a little history behind it. There was a book published in the
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