Truth and Creation Order — A Conversation with Professor Robert P. George
Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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In this edition of the popular podcast series “Thinking in Public,” Albert Mohler speaks with McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program at Princeton University, Robert P. George. They discuss his new book book, “Seeking Truth and Speaking Truth.”
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| 0:00.0 | Dr. Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison program at Princeton University. |
| 0:09.0 | Professor George is a world-renowned scholar on natural law and political philosophy and the overlap of religion and jurisprudence. |
| 0:16.0 | He is one of the most foremost conservative intellectuals alive today. He's chaired the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. |
| 0:23.6 | He served on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights as well as the President's Council in Bioethics. |
| 0:28.6 | He was also a member of UNESCO's World Commission on the Ethics of Scientific Knowledge and Technology. |
| 0:33.6 | He was a judicial fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States. |
| 0:38.1 | He received his law degree from Harvard University, a master of theological studies from Harvard Divinity |
| 0:43.0 | School, and after Harvard, he went to Oxford, where he received a doctor of philosophy, |
| 0:48.1 | Bachelor of Civil Law, Doctor of Civil Law, and a Doctor of Letters. |
| 0:52.6 | He's the author of eight books, including Making Men |
| 0:55.0 | Moral in Defense of Natural Law and What is Marriage? It is his most recent book, Seeking Truth |
| 1:01.3 | and Speaking Truth, Law and Morality in Our Cultural Moment, that is the topic of our conversation |
| 1:06.7 | today. Professor Robbie George, welcome to thinking in public. It's a pleasure. Thank you. |
| 1:13.1 | You know, I look forward to every book that is released from you, and I have particularly |
| 1:19.5 | look forward to this one because of the timeliness of it, seeking truth and speaking truth, |
| 1:24.3 | law and morality in our cultural moment. And let me begin by saying, I think a lot of |
| 1:29.8 | books that are collections of material don't hold together well. And I just want to tell you right |
| 1:35.7 | at front, your book holds together incredibly well. Well, thank you, Al. I hope it does hold |
| 1:42.8 | together well. If it does, that's because I'm basically |
| 1:46.0 | circling around the same set of themes. What is the nature and basis of the dignity of the human being? |
| 1:52.0 | When we locate that, when we understand the nature and basis of the dignity and the human being, |
| 1:58.0 | what does that entail for the great issues of meaning and value, |
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