Was Jesus a Socialist? (with Lawrence Reed)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

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

Talbot, Church, Christianity, Christian, Culture, Biola, Sean Mcdowell, Religion & Spirituality, Scott Rae, Think Biblically

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🗓️ 17 December 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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It has not been uncommon for advocates of virtually every economic system to invoke Jesus in support of their views, though some of the most ardent advocates for both capitalism and socialism did not have any particular religious views themselves (Rand, Marx). Over the years, some of the more recent advocates of socialist type economic arrangements have appealed to Jesus and the gospels in support of such systems. Economist Lawrence Reed helps us sort out the application of the teaching of Je...

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0:29.6	season. Welcome to the podcast Think Bibiblically, Conversations on Faith and Culture.
0:35.8	I'm your host Scott Ray.
0:37.6	That's Dean of Faculty and Professor of Christian Ethics at Talbot School of Theology
0:41.1	here at Biola University.
0:43.0	Our guest today is Mr. Lawrence Reed,
0:46.0	who is the President Emeritus of the Foundation for Economic Education.
0:50.0	He has actually just recently stepped down from that role.
0:54.0	I don't think it's quite accurate to say that you're retired
0:57.0	because you've got lots of projects,
1:00.0	particularly writing projects that you're looking forward to doing over the next few years.
1:04.0	So Larry, welcome to our time today.
1:08.0	You are, you spent a lot of time thinking about a very provocative topic that you'll be speaking about later
1:15.4	at acting university entitled was Jesus a socialist and so I appreciate the
1:20.8	opportunity to ask you some questions about that and to flesh that out a bit for our listeners.
1:26.4	So my pleasure. Thank you for having me Scott. I appreciate it.
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