Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 118

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Guests heard on Volume 118

Gilbert Meilaender, author of Should We Live Forever? The Ethical Ambiguities of Aging, on the ethical questions raised by anti-aging research, especially its most extreme forms in the “transhumanist” movement

Ron Highfield, author of God, Freedom, and Human Dignity: Embracing a God-Centered Identity in a Me-Centered Culture, on why the modern assumptions about personal identity, freedom, and human dignity create prejudices against the Gospel’s account of God and the self

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Mark Mitchell, author of The Politics of Gratitude: Scale, Place and Community in a Global Age, on why gratitude and stewardship should be seen as fundamental political postures (Archive Feature available)

Daniel M. Bell, Jr., author of The Economy of Desire: Christianity and Capitalism in a Postmodern World, on how capitalism nurtures the assumption of the autonomous self

Helen Rhee, author of Loving the Poor, Saving the Rich: Wealth, Poverty, and Early Christian Formation, on the centrality of almsgiving to Christian identity in the early Church

Peter Brown, author of Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD, on how the early Church’s wrestling with the questions of wealth and poverty steered a course between radical asceticism and careless indulgence (Archive Feature available)

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