Episodes
Monday Aug 26, 2019
(Theology) Fr John Behr - Origen and the Early Church, Pt 1
Monday Aug 26, 2019
Monday Aug 26, 2019
Theology Track Episode: Live from Nashotah House, WI (3rd year running), we've got a two-part interview. Amy Brown Hughes talks with Fr John Behr about Origen and all things Patristic. This episode requires theological safety gear, helmet, orange cones, ... everything. Enjoy part 1! More next week.
Guest: The Very Reverend Dr John Behr is a British Eastern Orthodox priest and theologian. He is the former Dean of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, where he is currently the Director of the Master of Theology Program and the Father Georges Florovsky Distinguished Professor of Patristics. He was ordained to the diaconate on September 8, 2001 and the priesthood on September 14, 2001. He is the editor of the Patristic Series released by St. Vladimir's Press. He was elected dean of the seminary on November 18, 2006, and served as dean from 2007 until 2017, when he was named Father Georges Florovsky Distinguished Professor of Patristics. He's the author of numerous books, including translation works, e.g., Origen: On First Principles (Oxford), Irenaeus: On the Apostolic Teaching (St Vladimir's Press), The Way to Nicaea, Vol. 1 (St. Vladimir's Press), and Formation of Christian Theology, Vol. 2: The Nicene Faith (St. Vladimir's Press). (adapted from Wikipedia, no less)
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If you like this: Check out our episode with Amy Brown Hughes and Lynn Cohick on their book Christian Women in the Patristic World, as well as our episode with Meghan Henning on her book Educating Early Christians Through the Rhetoric of Hell, and our episode with Matthew Thomas on his book Paul’s ‘Works of the Law’ in the Perspective of Second Century Reception.
Tuesday Aug 20, 2019
Darren Sarisky - Reading the Bible Theologically
Tuesday Aug 20, 2019
Tuesday Aug 20, 2019
Episode: Erin Heim and Chris Tilling interview Darren Sarisky about his recent book Reading the Bible Theologically (Cambridge).
Guest: Darren Sarisky is Departmental Lecturer in Modern Theology at the University of Oxford (Trinity College). He works in the area of Christian doctrine or systematic theology. His primary research specialization is theological hermeneutics of the Bible, that is, the interconnection between biblical reading and Christian doctrine. In this work, Dr Sarisky brings theological insights from early Christian theologians into conversation with voices from our own day. He has also written on theologies of retrieval, which are approaches to theology that make significant recourse to classic texts from within the Christian tradition.
Dr Sarisky has recently completed his second monograph, Reading the Bible Theologically, which is part of the Current Issues series from Cambridge University Press in its. The subject of the book is the nature of theological interpretation. The ongoing discussion of theological exegesis is one of the most significant discussions taking place today in Theology and Religious Studies. Though a great deal of energy is being directed at present into this debate, there is nevertheless a lack of clarity regarding the defining characteristics of the enterprise itself. Dr Sarisky aims to make a contribution there.
This new book builds on Dr Sarisky’s first work, Scriptural Interpretation: A Theological Exploration, which was published in 2013 by Wiley-Blackwell within its Challenges in Contemporary Theology series. The book brings an important fourth-century theologian, Basil of Caesarea, into dialogue with two leading lights in contemporary theology, Stanley Hauerwas and Rowan Williams. The question on which the book focuses is what is happening, in specifically theological terms, when the Bible is read by the church. The text culminates with a constructive contribution to the discussion that presents a thoroughly theological account of reading, including analyses of the identity of the reader, the nature of text being read, the practice of reading itself, and the social context of interpretation.
Prior to coming to Oxford, Dr Sarisky held academic appointments in Cambridge (as a Teaching Associate and a Junior Research Fellow) and at King’s College London (as a Lecturer in Systematic Theology). (From the Trinity College website).
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If you like this: Check out our interview with Fred Sanders on his book The Triune God.
Tuesday Aug 06, 2019
Dru Johnson - Human Rites
Tuesday Aug 06, 2019
Tuesday Aug 06, 2019
Episode: This week's ep features a public talk from OnScript's Dru Johnson on his recent book Human Rites: The Power of Rituals, Habits, and Sacraments (Eerdmans, 2018). Special thanks to Christ Church Jerusalem who recorded this event, and let us re-post it here. Enjoy!
Guest: Dru Johnson (Ph.D., University of St Andrews) is Associate Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at The King’s Collegein New York City and a Research Fellow at the Logos Institute (University of St Andrews, Scotland). His main area of research has focused on the philosophical and intellectual world of biblical literature.
His most recent books include a forthcoming trade book titled Human Rites: The Power of Rituals, Habits, and Sacraments (Eerdmans, 2018); The Universal Story: Genesis 1–11 (Lexham, 2018); Epistemology and Biblical Theology: From the Pentateuch to Mark’s Gospel (Routledge, 2017); and Knowledge by Ritual: A Biblical Prolegomenon to Sacramental Theology(Eisenbrauns, 2016). See all of his books at Amazon. He is an editor for the Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Biblical Criticism monograph series, so you can also send him proposals for monographs!
More at his website: drujohnson.com.
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If you like this episode: Check out our original episode with Dru (before he was a host) on his book Knowledge by Ritual, and Dru's interview with Jonathan Pennington.