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We received tender mercies this past week. (Psalm 51, KJV).

Here’s the end of election week message from TRP bunker.

Originally aired LIVE Friday 8 November 2024 at 1:21pm

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A snap-shot in time just after Biden was sworn in January 2021, with some correct prediction for 2024.

Never stop learning.

Tomorrow’s episode will refer back to this one.

Election Day Message from TRP Bunker at 11:16 am , Tues 5 Nov 2024 FB LIVE

The Nature of Representation, the duties and difficulties of American citizenship, and grade inflation.

This live video was done Thursday 19 March 2020 at 3:16 pm, the week the government locked down our church in California. We did not reopen for over a year, skipping two Easters out of fear of death (ironically).

I do a lecture on how the first Christians dealt with sickness and death compared to 2020, and I do a prayer walk through the premises.

These were my thoughts that first week. Part 4 of 4 in this series from the first week of the government imposed lockdowns of “inessential ” businesses and churches in 2020.

2nd part in a series on Grade Inflation.

“Higher Education is a Democrat Indoctrination, Grade Inflation Plantation. At Tax Payer Expense.”

Originally aired on FB LIVE on Monday 7 Oct 2024 at 12:23 pm

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Luke, for Trp

Part 3 of 4 in a series on the first week of the government-forced shutdowns in Lost Angeles, California.

Political Phenomenology of Friday, 13 March 2020. Lost Angeles and Ventura Counties, California.

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Luke

This live video was done Wedsnesday 18 March 2020 at 7:53 pm, the first week the government shut down our “inessential” church as well as “inessential” businesses. These were my thoughts that first week of the shutdown, remembering good ole’ Lochner v. New York (1905). Part 2 of 4 in a series this week.

Books discussed in this episode:

David E. Bernstein, Rehabilitating Lochner: Defending Individual Liberty Against Progressive Reform (University of Chicago Press, 2012).

David N. Mayer, Liberty of Contract: Rediscovering a Lost Constitutional Right (CATO Institute, 2011).

Christopher Wolfe, The Rise of Modern Judicial Review: From Constitutional Interpretation to Judge-Made Law (Roman and Littlefield, 1994).

This live video was done Sunday 15 March 2020 at 11:38 pm, the day the government shut down our church in California. We did not reopen for over a year, skipping two Easters out of fear of death (ironically). As church staff, was laid off for over a year without the benefit of unemployment compensation since church workers are excluded from UI consideration under California law. Churches aren’t considered “employment” for those purposes. These were my thoughts that first day.

Part 1 of 4 in a series this week.

We’re discussing “Science and Ideology” based on the insights from a master observer of both types of totalitarian socialisms on the Left, national socialism — sometimes called fascism — and the kind of socialism that the Communists in East Germany and Russia had during the 1900s, during the life of Dr. Thielicke. USSR meant Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Our return guest today on The Republican Professor Podcast is the former professor of Theology at the University of Hamburg in West Germany, Dr. Helmut Thielicke, Ph.D., D.Theol. (Philosophy and Theology).

Professor Thielicke once again joins us through his teaching in his Theological Ethics, Vol. 2: Politics. My copy was purchased at Old Capitol Books (new location) in Monterey, California, across from Nick the Greek restaurant on Alvarado Street (their old location was 559 Tyler, Monterey, CA, across from the Peet’s Coffee and was formerly Book Haven for many years), and is a hard copy published in 1969 by Fortress Press and edited by William H. Lazareth.

Thielicke died before he was able to come on to The Republican Professor Podcast.

We thank Fortress Press for making the book available. Check out their catalogue for a full listing of their very interesting titles, and buy one. Get a copy of this for yourself and following along in our transformative, performative reading of it as we make fair use on his insights, with fresh scholarly commentary from me, and allow it to shape our understanding of American Politics.

This is part 7 in a series on The Republican Professor Podcast, an introduction to theological reflection on American government.

Here, we broach the topic of the nature and power of “ideology” in Communist eschatology. Our very special guest today is, once again, the esteemed and long-time Professor of Theology at the University of Hamburg, Helmut Thielicke.

And I’ve invited Professor Thielicke to join us today through my performative reading (with my scholarly commentary upon) and fair use of his teaching on this topic in his magisterial “Theological Ethics, Volume 2: Politics.” My copy of the book was published in 1969 by Fortress Press.

Please buy a copy of the book and follow along with our study of this material. Here’s a link to the book: https://www.amazon.com/Theological-Ethics-Politics-Helmut-Thielicke/dp/0802817920

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Professor Thielicke died before we were able to invite him in person as a guest on the podcast.

Thanks to Fortress Press, the book is still in print and would be a valuable addition, indeed, to your personal library. Please support the work of Fortress Press and buy the book, and check out the other selections that they carry, as well.

The Republican Professor Podcast is a pro-deeply-conversing-on-the-theological-aspects-of-the-nature-of-government podcast.

Therefore, welcome Professor Helmut Thielicke !

The Republican Professor is produced and hosted by Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D.

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This is part three (3 of 3) of a book review of a book arguing Jesus is for gun control. The book advocates criminalization of paradigmatically innocent conduct in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

The book by professor Mike Austin is called “God, Guns and America.”

This is part three of a review of the book with Kurtis Olson on FB LIVE 1 April 2021 at 7:36 pm.

This episode was co-hosted and co-produced by Mr. Kurtis Olson.

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