Tuesday, September 20, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 20 September 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 10:01)
The Meaning of Funerals and the Making of History: The State Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II and History on Both Sides of the AtlanticPart II (10:01 - 15:39)
The History of State Funerals: And Looking Back to the State Funeral of Winston Churchill in 1965 Part III (15:39 - 27:31)
‘Let Us Commend Queen Elizabeth to the Care and Keeping of Almighty God’: The World Hears Scripture and Christian Doctrine in the Order of Service of Britain’s State Funeral for Queen Elizabeth II
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, |
| 0:05.0 | Tuesday, September 20, 2022. |
| 0:07.8 | I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events |
| 0:11.9 | from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:13.7 | Yesterday, millions upon millions around the world watched the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth |
| 0:18.7 | the second, Queen of the United Kingdom and other dominions. |
| 0:22.4 | It was a very moving ceremony. It was one of the rarest |
| 0:26.4 | of all public events in recent Western history. It was a state funeral, the first in Great |
| 0:32.2 | Britain since the funeral of Winston Churchill in 1965. |
| 0:36.4 | More about that in just a moment. |
| 0:38.4 | We're looking at several intersecting points here, and they deserve Christian attention. |
| 0:42.9 | There are just huge worldview dimensions attached to all of these events, all the traditions, |
| 0:48.4 | all the attention. |
| 0:49.4 | But let's just step back for a moment and recognize that there is something important being |
| 0:53.8 | underlined by the fact that this was first of all a funeral that tells us |
| 0:57.6 | something about human beings human beings being mortal and the scripture |
| 1:02.0 | explains why have a consciousness of that mortality |
| 1:05.8 | and that mortality makes us take death very seriously and thus wherever you find even |
| 1:11.1 | a remnant of human civilization, you find some kind of evidence of burial |
| 1:16.0 | patterns and also of what we might call funeral practices. |
| 1:20.3 | Or to put it in another way, where you find human community and traces of human civilization, |
| 1:25.6 | you find markers of death. |
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