What Does Faithful Political Engagement Look Like? Dr. Michael F. Bird

Theology in the Raw

Preston Sprinkle

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Dr. Michael F. Bird is a biblical scholar and theologian who serves as the Deputy Principle and Lecturer in Theology at Ridley College (Melbourne, Aus), and is the author of over a dozen books, including his recently released Jesus and the Powers, which he co-authored with N.T. Wright. In this podcast conversation, we talk all about politics and the gospel, agreeing on so many things and disagreeing about a few other things. Support Theology in the Raw through Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theologyintheraw

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0:53.0	Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of Theology and Nara my guest today is my good friend,
0:58.4	the one and only Dr. Michael Bird.
1:01.6	Mike Bird has been on the podcast too many times I mentioned. He's written too many books that you have time to read, including the most recent book that he co-wrote with NT Wright. I've got a copy here in my hand called Jesus and the
1:14.0	powers Christian political witness at an age of totalitarian terror and dysfunctional
1:18.9	democracies and this becomes the to be a very interesting conversation.
1:24.0	This is going to be a very interesting conversation because I also wrote the book on
1:29.0	politics recently called Exiles and I would say our our books and our approach overlap a good deal
1:35.6	Mike Burton I see Idaho and a lot of things including kind of how we view politics
1:39.9	but we you know we might overlap about 80% and there might be, yeah, about 20% where we might come to
1:46.8	different conclusions or have different approaches.
1:48.4	And in this podcast conversation, we do try to tease out some of those those differences and Mike Bird is just a super wise
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