Mortal Goods, with Dr. Ephraim Radner
Ephraim Radner joins Matt and Alastair to discuss Christian political indifferentism.
Politics has inflated beyond the realm where it can order our finite, common, physical lives. What is the natural realm of politics? How is it delimited by human mortality? Theologian Dr. Ephraim Radner joins Matt and Alastair to discuss the theme of his fascinating new book, Mortal Goods: Reimagining Christian Political Duty.
Links Mentioned:
Lexham Press Book of the Month
A Time to Keep: Theology, Mortality, and the Shape of a Human Life, by Ephraim Radner [affiliate link]
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century, by Walter Scheidel [affiliate link]
Number Our Days: A Triumph of Continuity and Culture Among Jewish Old People in an Urban Ghetto, by Barbara Myerhoff
The Great Litany from the Book of Common Prayer
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