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Part 7: We continue our timely coverage of Pope Leo XIII ‘s Rerum Novarum numbers 32 through the end of 35 in his continued condemnation of Socialism and collectivism against the individual rights of employers, workers and families in 1891, when Socialism was increasingly popular in intellectual circles, setting the stage for the statisms of the 1900s.

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We begin our study of open carry in America’s Constitutional tradition by spending time with Baird v. Bonta (2 Jan 2026, 9th Circuit) thru the top of page 11 (up to Roman Numeral II). The pro-Second-Amendment opinions, both of them that we take a look at, were written by Republican appointees (Trump, Republican US Senate).

We will pick up at page 11 and Roman Numeral II at that time.

This episode and this series is dedicated to the memory of my closest first cousin, Little Dan Mountain Jr, closest in age by just a couple of weeks, who died a week ago today, last Thursday.

I picked a topic that would bring a smile to his face and that would honor the bright spots in our childhood together in Colorado.

This episode includes a reading from Psalm 29 (KJV) and Streams in the Desert January 24th (Cowman Publications, Lost Feliz Station Lost Angeles, Calif, 1925 — non-woke edition).

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We’re continuing from 11 Nov 2025, discussing the first subsection in his next chapter, chapter 5 (The Relation of Ideological Tyranny to the Authoritarian State), called “Revelation 13 as a Model of Ideological Tyranny” 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). We go from pp. 53 thru the top of 62. (See 11 Nov 2025, “Ideologies as Idolatry” for the last episode in this series).

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 10 in a series on The Republican Professor Podcast, an introduction to theological reflection on American government.

Here, we continue the topic of the nature and power of “ideology” in Communist Socialist and National Socialist (sometimes called by others fascistic socialism/fascism). 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 transformative, 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.
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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 !

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Part 3 of a series on the history of Israel based on a fair use and transformative reading of “Israel and the Nations: From the Exodus to the Fall of the Second Temple” (Eerdmans, 1963) by FF Bruce.

This episode includes interaction with his chapter III entitled “The Reign of David 1010 to 970 BC” by the Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis, FF Bruce, my intellectual and spiritual grandfather because he mentored my professor Bruce Demarest who himself studied under FF Bruce at the University of Manchester.

We’re going to do a fair use and make a transformative reading of this material. We’d like to thank Eerdmans for making it available and thank FF Bruce for writing it.

It also contains multiple references to Deuteronomy 17.

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Part 3: The Natural Law provides a key to resolving a Republican debate in the 1980s on the normative judicial power, Judicial Activism v. Judicial Restraint. We did the Preface and Chapter 1 last time (13 Nov 2025) and this time we continue with the first half of Chapter 2, pp. 7 to 16 at the top.

Stephen Macedo published “The New Right v. The Constitution” with The CATO Institute in 1986.

We’re going to make a fair use and do a transformative reading of the book.

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We’d like to thank Stephen Macedo for writing the book and to thank CATO for making this material available in publishing it. Consider supporting CATO with a financial donation so that they can continue providing quality resources for discussion. Tell a friend about their resources.

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We cover immigration today with Mark Krikorian’s excellent short book review in Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2025 on page 16 of the physical print edition you get in the mail four times a year when you subscribe for a nominal charge.

We do a fair use and do a transformative reading of this material. We’d like to thank Claremont Review of Books for making this material available. We’d like to thank Mark Krikorian for writing it.

As of the day of recording, the piece was available to the public on the website. Just go to the website and search “Mi Casa” and follow along. But it’s best to subscribe so you get the hard copies in the mail.

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We’re introducing The Trivium today in conversation with Sister Miriam Joseph, Ph.D., who joins us through her writing teaching ministry in “The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric” originally published in 1937.

We’d like to thank Sister Miriam Joseph for writing this and we’d like to thank Paul Dry Books 2002 for making this particular edition available to readers (edited by Marguerite McGlinn).

We’re doing a fair use and transformative reading, and would encourage you to go out and get yourself a physical copy of this book. Whether used or new, or even a different edition, if you can find it, get the book, a physical copy you can hold in your hand, and follow along with the discussion.

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Last week on the 22nd of December, Republican appointed federal Judge Roger Benitez (Cuban ethnicity) struck down the Democrat mandated lying to parents in the K-12 school system.

Unusual behavior or conduct of a student at school isn’t grounds for a violation of Constitutional rights, Benitez held in Mirabelli v. Olson (Filed 22 Dec 2025), available here : https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63d954d4e4ad424df7819d46/6949e11ea6bae817c8eaf637_Dkt%20%20307_MSJ%20Order.pdf

We cover thru the first half of page 10. We’ll continue from there next time.

This episode includes a reading from Psalm 150, the very last Psalm, in the King James Version of the Bible.

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One can see the true heart–none at all–of the Democrats’ so-called concern for the most vulnerable among us in Jaime Caetano v. Massachusetts. That is to say, one can see the Democrats’ utter contempt for the most vulnerable among us, like Jaime Caetano.

This case was decided decided just a month after Justice Scalia died, in March of 2016. They criminalized a woman for innocent conduct. The Republicans corrected this.

Democrats and some Republicans have made the grave error of upending the true purpose of government : by criminalizing paradigmatically innocent conduct. Governments aren’t supposed to do that. Where criminalization of innocent conduct has occurred, it needs to be decriminalized. All tyrannies have this in common : they criminalize innocent conduct. That’s what makes a government evil.

What do all tyrannies do ? They criminalize innocent conduct.

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We finish Chief Justice Roberts’ Opinion for the Court today for Part 4d of this deep dive as we continue the Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo (2024) decision that overruled Chevron (1984), Chief Justice Roberts’ Opinion for the Court starting from from his page 23 Roman Numeral III, letter B number 2 in the Slip Opinion through to the end of the Opinion of the Court on the bottom of page 35.

We have one more episode in this Deep Dive after this one to do the concurrences by Thomas and Gorsuch. This is the 15th Chevron Deference Deep Dive episode we’ve done on TRP podcast since winter 2024. And here it is winter 2025.

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-451_7m58.pdf

(603 U.S. _____ (2024) of the Opinion of the Court written by Chief Justice Roberts.

We will pick up with the Republican concurrences in Loper Bright next time.

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