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Eric Metaxas | Christianity and Dignity
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2018
- Former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia John Anderson talks to New York Times #1 Bestselling Author Eric Metaxas on the history of the abolition of slavery in the West, the belief in the inherent dignity of every individual, the current culture wars and more.
Eric Metaxas is a Christian author, speaker, and conservative radio host. He has written numerous biographies on Christian figures throughout history such as Martin Luther, William Wilberforce, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
#Christianity #History #Politics
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1:40-6:22 Why have you devoted so much of your life to writing biographies?
6:22-20:19 How Christianity ended the Slave Trade
20:19-32:36 Evangelical Christianity: The Source of Western Values
32:36-35:39 Why we need Christianity in the Public Square
35:39-43:05 Bonhoeffer’s Faithfulness in the face of Nazism
43:05-50:26 Nazi Germany and the Danger of Nominal Christianity
50:26-54:31 The Left’s Re-Writing of History
50:31-59:38 How do we understand Trump’s America?
59:38-1:03:56 Pride: The Greatest Problem
1:03:56-1:14:47 What should Christians be prioritising today?
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Thank you John. Please help our nation (Australia) remember our past, celebrate our Christian heritage and be courageous to speak truth into our family, work place, neighbourhoods, States and Nation!
Love this man, John ... thank you for interviewing him ... and thank you, Eric, for agreeing to be interviewed !!!
I love Mr. Anderson - so smart, so charming, so kind.
if only one could say the same of the rude, self involved, unfunny metaxas
@@TJ-kk5zf Yes; I'm afraid he's not my favorite person, either.
I am so thankful for Eric's wisdom, his courage, and his ability to articulate his beliefs and defend Christianity.
@Noel Hausler Ummmm, what does the opinion of a pompous ass have to do with my comment? Nothing. Buzz off.
Noel Hausler Aaaah, the truth comes out, you’re a Trump hater! 😂😂😂😂🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪
So, you don’t like his book, seriously, who freaking cares? I don’t. Again, it has nothing to do with my comment. Your arrogance is your own problem. Millions of people like the book, so you don’t. Blah, blah, blah.
Eric metaxes my favourite human currently living!
Brilliant conversation - a history lesson everyone should view!
For me, three of Eric's statements are standouts:
1. "Once the Gospel is let out of the bag so to speak, it touches everything - it affects everything. I've often preached this: that Jesus changes everything."
2. "When you bring the Christian faith into the public square, where it hasn't been, you change everything - you touch everything."
3. "As a result of the church failing to heed God's voice through Bonhoeffer, to this day, eighty years later, Germans effectively hang their heads in shame over this blot which can never be expunged. Germany as a nation still feels the weight of guilt for not having done the right thing. Ultimately we always have to point our fingers at the church - the church is supposed to lead. If you call yourself a Christian, you are the one that's supposed to speak up and lead the way. When the church does not lead the way - when people are too comfortable or not willing, really terrible things can happen."
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Thank you John. Your conversations are thought provoking and enlightening. Will be reading up on Wilberforce after this one.
Great interview, I saw Eric two years ago, that’s when I first heard of him, since then I listen when I can to his podcast interviews, which are always interesting. Very inspiring conversation, it’s a pity that in general I can’t have conversations like this with some of my friends and family who aren’t Christian and more left leaning, they seem to think it’s too controversial and meaningless conversations are a consequence. Keep up the great work both of you.
Georgia G I know what you mean, Georgia. My husband’s late and great brother introduced us to the Metaxas biography of Bonhoeffer; but my husband and children are quite condescending. The most difficult is when you realize that a friend who seems to be a Christian hates Trump and wants nothing to do with anybody who is supporting him. One of the amazing missionaries who attends our church was the first to step out in faith, believing other Christians, probably the Grahams, who believed that Trump has been chosen by God for a time like this. I wasn’t convinced in 2016 but am now. He keeps his promises, especially to evangelical Christians, to pro-lifers like myself.
This conversation should have so much more attention and viewership.
Love your videos. Please please keep doing them. A great blessing.
Thank you for the words so near the end about women who are bullied into abortions!!!!
Great conversation. Inspiring. Thank you John and Eric.
I appreciate how this conversation starts during the day and ends at night
Simply an outstanding conversation. Outstanding. Have shared it to my FB page.
Excellent interview, brilliant guest. Keep them coming!
Isabel Allende Are you THE Isabel Allende?
Thank you. Great interview. A timely reminder to understand how important it is to learn about history and never let it repeat.
Brilliant, John. Another home run.
In Australia, we call that a Century.
Wonderful conversation. Much needed these days. Germany did not really learn about christianity lately, unfortunately : the left ideology get´s stronger and more authoritarian by the day.
Prophetic conversation is an understatement. It’s now December 2022 and here we are again…..
Very inspiring!
I truly appreciate the opportunity to even know this man’s name. Not to mention being able to listen to digest and to think.
Great interview John😊👍.
Yes... "Loss of first love"! Loss of love for Jesus Himself... then loss of love of others. As a Presbyterian I certainly want good doctrine, but it's all about Jesus Himself first. As a person. He is still is a person. And He wants friends.
T K I was born and raised in the Presbyterian Church and in 1968 graduated from Rhodes College, previously called Southwestern at Memphis. I found this amazing Presbyterian preacher and teacher thanks to the RUclips algorithm which led me to him. I must have watched hundreds of his videos. I just wish I had known about him when our son and daughter in law lived in New York City. I live in my husband’s home, El Salvador, and attend a church full of missionaries. Three of them are also on the FB of this man so highly lauded whose name is Timothy Keller. One young couple attended marriage counseling with him and his lovely wife. They have a ministry to youth who can no longer be in children’s homes because of their age. Another couple from Pennsylvania work on the streets with the homeless, Mission El Salvador. I had never thought there were Presbyterian missionaries in El Salvador, much less in New York City. Thanks for reading my epistle. May God bless you, keeping you strong and safe.
Eric Metaxis has written two deep biographies on the two essential people who made the abolition of slavery, the owning of human beings, necessary. First, Martin Luther’s Protestant tradition (ie, the justification of Belief by faith alone, Salvation by God’s Grace) took seriously that humans are made in God’s image, and thereby endowed with His agency. Thus, no matter how different another human appears, that Will must be recognised as derived from God. We therefore must recognise others suffrage (ie, their Right to vote), and deny widow burning among the Hindi (Sutter). And the prisoners colony transport to Australia was humane in the First and Fourth sailings resulting in healthier lives, but not under Lord Melbourne’s Second and Third that killed many (conveyed via former slave ships, as John Anderson and Eric discuss). Wilberforce was the greatest social and political reformer in the history of the world. He made Mahatma Ghandi’s stand and successful suasion gaining Indian independence from Great Britain without war with the mother country possible.
The worst bigots are ones who cant stand bigots.
If the Spirit of Christ is not actively willingly involved humans will get polarised; and believe the lying tongues. A Spiritual law equally fixed, as any physical laws in nature or universe. All for a testimony of our need to come into this dynamic, awezome and truly wonderful Relationship with God, trough Christ, his own Son. Jesus said, ye who have seen me have seen the Father, we need a Father, all of us.
There is enough on this conversation to create a syllabus . Hopefully you will truncate and titrate for the sake of reaching more ears.
God help us to be who You want us to be.
Leviticus 25:44-46 (New International Version)
44 “‘Your male and female slaves are to come from the nations around you; from them you may buy slaves. 45 You may also buy some of the temporary residents living among you and members of their clans born in your country, and they will become your property. 46 You can bequeath them to your children as inherited property and can make them slaves for life, but you must not rule over your fellow Israelites ruthlessly.
are only conservative voters watching these guys? are we living in an echo chamber?
antidepressant11 I voted Republican across the board for the first time in 2018. I didn’t vote in 2016 because I had heard true Christians sincerely believed that Trump, in spite of his faults, would be used by God. I was a Democrat activist during the late 60s and early 70s. I helped elderly black ladies register to vote and took them to the polls on Election Day in my car without ever suggesting how to vote. I was a teacher in a school which had been segregated but most of the white students had left by the time I went there to work. The school community sold candy and earned a little money to help me with the traveling expenses of the two middle school girls we knew would take advantage of a trip to Mexico. They did and were perfect ladies.
At that time 58% of the students in Memphis Schools were black but there was not a single black rep on the School Board. I boycotted the supermarkets to ask people not to buy grapes until migrant workers had better working conditions. I also recycled more back then than immigrants do now. I picketed a restaurant because the one black student in our college was not allowed to enter, much less eat there. The BLM type philosophy students sat in the student lounge drinking beer and planning how WE, THE WOMEN, should provoke the police so they would tear gas us and we’d be victims to use for propaganda. I’m a conservative now because I learned many life lessons. In El Salvador you have to be a citizen to participate in politics so I’ve had time to study and meditate; time to put my Christian faith before politics. I would have aborted our son if he had been conceived in 1973 instead of 1972. The obgyn told me how easy it would be to fly to New York City Friday afternoon; “get rid of it”; and be back at work in Memphis on Monday morning. An aunt told me I should abort because my dad had suffered from epilepsy and my children would, too, so I shouldn’t have children. Somehow, the next Sunday I went to church. I helped an elder of a large inner city Episcopal church and God spoke to me through a student that day.
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In setting up the slavery issue as a litmus test for Christianity, Metaxas adopts an extremely parochial, and typical Yankee view of America. There were plenty of devout Christian Southerners, who were not abolitionists. General Robert E. Lee comes to mind as one of them. It may well be that Metaxas correctly assesses 18th-19th Century England as "pagan," but to leave the implication hanging, as he did, that the American South must have been pagan too, is inexcusably sloppy thinking.
There is in intolerant hypocrisy stated in this video, how can you value the dignity of the individual, and their rights, and not see that the human rights to political and religious freedom does imply the right to be free of religion and or politics in the sense that you do not have the right to define a set group of teams and then forced people to subscribe to a membership of one of them? Your logic looks like a guarantee of conflict, and it is a form of identity politics, which you guys claim to oppose! It is, as a matter of principle if not legal practice, entirely within a person's rights to tick the box that says [ ] None of the above, to reject the limited choices imposed on them by others and to instead seek to create something better. Isn't that what people like William Wilberforce were doing, rejecting the status quo and the choices that society had presented to them, didn't they say no we need another way?
You went off the rails from the start, seems to me. You have no right to be free from the cultural influences of your nation. You can move if you like, which if you're American you're free to do.
Kathy Leicester, it is a matter of principle, you either get why having them universally applicable is important, or you don't really get the idea of what principles are at all. But perhaps if we invert the scenario you will understand better, does a Christian cake maker have the right to be free from gay people insisting that he make a cake for them? Both parties have legally protected rights, but they can be in conflict so the only solution is the right to isolate yourself to protect your rights from those of others. Furthermore it isn't just about culture, this is actually a legal matter with legal repercussions and only a hypocrite would insist that the underlying principle not be universally applicable. You can't have your Christian cake and eat it.
Daniel Matthews; Eric's new book, "Donald Drains the Swamp" needs a different title: "Donald is a Very Confused Man, Who Needs to Understand What it Means to Honor and Glorify God." Narcissist/Mysoginists cannot grasp these truths.
Mate, British people were effectively slaves in their own country under the yoke of the land owners well into the 20th Century especially the Scots and the Irish... so your arguments are 'absolute nonsense' from the get go. But then if you still believe in 'god' your power of reason and understanding has to be flawed.
What a load of rubbish there's been no slaves of the plantation type of bondage in Britain since the 12th or 13th century and even then serfs had more rights than 'slaves"' - to say otherwise is to diminish the plight of real slaves. But being some weird atheist who 'wastes' his life on sites like these you obviously are not a perceptive man.
Slavery is the direct result of Patriarchy, not racism. Racism is another result of Patriarchy.
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