The Republican Professor

We're in part 2 on anger and hatred in the Bible and normative American Politics. Today's guest is, again, a Mark O. Hatfield (R, Oregon) type of Republican, Dr. Vernon Grounds, Ph.D., former Chancellor, President, and long-time professor of Philosophy and founder of the Counseling Department at Denver Seminary, where TRP's host Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. knew Dr. Gr

Today's return guest is a Mark O. Hatfield (R, Oregon) type of Republican, Dr. Vernon Grounds, Ph.D., former Chancellor, President, and long-time professor of Philosophy and founder of the Counseling Department at Denver Seminary, where TRP's host Dr. Lucas J. Mather, Ph.D. knew Dr. Grounds during Dr. Mather's graduate student days. Our topic today on The Republican

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, C

Our special guest on this passion week episode, 2024 (Good Friday, Easter Weekend) is the former Professor of Ancient History at The Sorbonne in Paris, Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges. He joins us to discuss what he calls "The Omnipotence of the State: The Ancients Knew Nothing of Individual Liberty", his chapter XVII of The Ancient City (La Cite Antique), published in 186

Our guest today defends the most vulnerable people, often at his own substantial cost, from bureaucrats who use the police power of the state to abuse Americans. Does the Second Amendment protect the right to keep and bear non-lethal arms? If it protects the right to keep and bear lethal arms for self-defense, a fortiori, it would seem so. Butterfly knives can be used for self-defe

How should we define these terms "Left" and "Right" ? What do they, and what should they mean ? We take a break from our time with Professor Helmut Thielicke (Theology, Univ. Hamburg, Germany) to have an excursus on the topic that Thielicke raised and that we discussed here on The Republican Professor Podcast. And that topic is: What is Left ? What is Right ? A

This is part 3 in a series on The Republican Professor Podcast, an introduction to theological reflection on American government. Here, we broach the topic of the "power state," or the "totalitarian state," what our guest calls a "pseudo church." Our very special guest today is, once again, the esteemed and long-time Professor of Theology at the Univer

This is part 2 in a series on The Republican Professor Podcast, an introduction to theological foundations of American government, continuing our theological reflection on the "authority" of government per se. Again, to help us with this topic, our very special guest today is the long-time Professor of Theology at the University of Hamburg, Helmut Thielicke. And I've

Today's topic on The Republican Professor Podcast is an introduction to theological foundations of American government, starting with the theological reflection on the "authority" of government per se. And to help us with this topic, our very special guest today is the long-time Professor of Theology at the University of Hamburg, Helmut Thielicke. And I've invit

Today's topic on The Republican Professor Podcast is the doctrine of "sensitive places" as an attempt to curb the right to bear arms, and to help us through that topic, our guest is the youngest judge appointed to the federal bench by President Trump, Kathryn Kimball Mizelle, who was confirmed by a Republican US Senate. She is a trial court judge in Florida. Judge Mi