Bryan Wolfmueller, pastor of St Paul and Jesus Deaf Lutheran Churches in Austin, TX, author of "A Martyr's Faith for a Faithless World", "Has American Christianity Failed?", co-host of Table Talk Radio, teacher of Grappling with the Text, and theological adventure traveler.
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This is great!
This was so good!!
Watched this video this morning. Totally captivating conversation, gave me much to ponder! More, More!!
Fantastic! It’s amazing how you could squeeze so much into one conversation.
I loved the conclusion too.
A question/thought:
I have friends who make it their goal to NOT argue ethics from “the text” (here I mean the Holy Scripture) when engaging in the public square. Instead, they believe it’s most winsome to make arguments from the natural sciences, alone.
However, this conversation made me question that approach even more. Are we just entering into the same impoverished and darkened room when we always must dress up our moral arguments with a white lab coat, citing the data and attempting to sound scientific?
Why not instead appeal to the limited scope of such a methodology? (Something this conversation did compellingly). And then let the Scripture speak with boldness and clarity to questions the scientific method is so impotent to answer?
Along those lines – how necessary is is that we provide such a “push back” in the culture and argue against the authority of science? Is it fair to make some comparisons of the present cultural crisis with the one Luther faced when he had to push back against the competing authorities of the pope and the councils?
The conversation definitely encouraged me that we as believers need to boldly unsheathe the Word of God and allow it to provide a banqueting table in a world that’s dying of malnutrition.
Thank you!
It is very helpful to know what science can know, and what science can’t know. That way, we can rejoice in scientific knowledge, and promote its flourishing, but also it’s proper place.