Dr. Matt Godshall joins Mark and Rex to explore the important topic of how theology positively or negatively affects our view of environmental ethics.

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Welcome to Jessup think I'm your host, Mark Moore, and I'm your co host Rex Gurney. I'm Rex today on the podcast, we're excited to have a conversation about something I think is really important. And it has theological implications and practical implications. We're going to be looking at how our theology affects our practice, specifically, our view on environmentalism.

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And it's an important topic to talk about. It really is, and I think we have a wonderful guest this morning that will help us process

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renew we, Professor Matt Godshall has been on the show a few times press are New Testament, teaches an environmental ethics class here at Jessup. And so we're excited to have this conversation. hope you tune in.

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Well, today's episode, we're going to look at the idea of how theology affects our practice. And particularly, I think we want to zoom in on how theology maybe even particularly, eschatology, which is just a fancy way of saying how you viewed the end times are the end of the world as we know it. How your eschatology I'm feeling fine. Yeah, that's good. That's a good reference. How your eschatology affects how you view the environment, and maybe how that that position you take on care of the environment, and just environmental ethic issues in general. And, Rex, I know that this issue has been really kind of big in your life and gun owner, you deal with it a lot in classes, so kind of throw the ball to you. First on, we also have Matt Gaucho with us. Professor of New Testament, we decided we need an expert. That's right. He also teaches a class on environmental ethics for Jessup. And so we're excited to have you on the show again, man. I mean, you're a definite friend of the show. And I am excited to say like it might happen t shirts are in the world brand of the show t shirts are in the works. They're gonna be at a local Walmart near you. Coming soon, find a Walmart yeah. Oh, yeah, exactly. We can bring in, but yeah, no, Rex, we'll start with you. Because it kind of is

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so on your heart. Um, I mean, the whole issue and actually have something in front of me right now. This is no arms and it will like Christian perspective class. One thing we do is kind of do a theology once over just to talk about what most Christians most of the time, most places have thought about God and mankind and redemption and soteriology and eschatology, that big word, but not to try to, you know, just go over doctrine and teach doctrine, but just to show how that actually has. And I don't like this term, but I don't know of another term, sort of a cash value, okay, in how you live your life and how you look at things, how it affects your worldview, right. And so we'll talk about eschatology, and how your view of in times or how that impacts contemporary history, and what's going on around you really can affect some things like who you vote for, what you vote for, what policies you vote for, even when you don't think about it deliberatively it's sort of theology of the gut. And I just try to get students to make a connection between those things, but it also affects the environment. So for example, and I'll just give one I have had relatives and they're actually not in this place anymore. So they have I believe grown in this area, right. But but for a while they they refuse to recycle. And they actually had sort of a almost a religious Christian reason for not right and right as they were dedicated to a pre millennial dispensational view of in times. And so, you know, the world's going to hell in a handbasket. That's just the way it is. You can read it and Daniel and Revelation, right, and so since we're not going to be around much anymore, and since there's nothing we can do to positively impact the future, because I think I a