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Scot McKnight and Hans Boersma - Things I Wish You Knew

Episode: Scot McKnight and Hans Boersma have a spirited exchange in their Five Things books - and it becomes even more lively as they extend the conversation for OnScript. After a drink or two, where would the theologian Boersma still want to press the biblical scholar McKnight? A wide-ranging dialogue on the proper interfacing of Scripture, tradition, and philosophical framework, co-hosted by Matthew Bates and Erin Heim - that is, when they could get a word in edgewise.

Guests: Scot McKnight is Julius R. Mantey Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary. He has written more than fifty books and also blogs regularly on his highly influential blog Jesus Creed. Scot is a much sought-after conference speaker and a renowned expert on early Christianity. He has written both academic and popular titles, including The Jesus Creed (Christianity Today’s book of the year in 2004); The Blue Parakeet, Open to the Spirit, and The King Jesus Gospel. McKnight has also written many books for a scholarly audience, including several excellent commentaries in the NICNT series (Eerdmans).

Hans Boersma is Order of St. Benedict Servants of Christ Endowed Professorship in Ascetical Theology at Nashotah House Theological Seminary. He is the author of numerous books, including Seeing God (Eerdmans); Scripture as Real Presence (Baker Academic); and Heavenly Participation (Eerdmans).

Our books for discussion today are:

Scot McKnight, Five Things Biblical Scholars Wish Theologians Knew (IVP Academic, 2021).

Hans Boersma, Five Things Theologians Wish Biblical Scholars Knew (IVP Academic, 2021).

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Robert Chao Romero - The Brown Church

Episode: Kicking off National Hispanic Heritage month (in the U.S.), Jules sits down with Robert Chao Romero to discuss his unique approach to history, the influence of Lauryn Hill, the importance of the exodus, the 500-year history of Christian social justice, colonization, the first racial justice sermon in the history of the Americas, the beginning of the Brown Church and its development, and much more!  

Guest: Robert Chao Romero is an Associate Professor in the UCLA departments of Chicana/o Studies and Central America Studies, and Asian American Studies.  He received his Ph.D. from UCLA in Latin American History and his Juris Doctor from U.C. Berkeley, and is also an attorney. Romero is the author of several books, including, The Chinese in Mexico, 1882-1940 (Univ of Arizona Press, 2012) and Brown Church: Five Centuries of Latina/o Social Justice, Theology, and Identity (IVP Academic, 2020). “The Chinese in Mexico” received the Latina/o Studies book award from the Latin American Studies Association and “The Brown Church” received the InterVarsity Press Readers’ Choice Award for best academic title. Romero is also an ordained minister and faith rooted community organizer.

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Willie Jennings - After Whiteness

Episode: Willie James Jennings joins Erin for a challenging conversation on theological education. Jennings brings a wealth of experience to the topic, drawing from his expertise as a theologian and the wisdom he gained during his years of service as Academic Dean at Duke Divinity School. Jennings has penned his valuable insights in his new book, After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Eerdmans, 2020), which is the inaugural book of Eerdmans' new series: Theological Education between the Times. If you are now, or have ever been, a student, a teacher, or an administrator, you won't want to miss this episode.

Guest (from the publisher's website): Willie James Jennings is associate professor of systematic theology and Africana studies at Yale University Divinity School. His book The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race won both the American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion and the Grawemeyer Award in Religion.
Willie is also an OnScript veteran, and you can listen to his interview on The Christian Imagination here.

Book (from the publisher's website): After Whiteness - Theological education has always been about formation: first of people, then of communities, then of the world. If we continue to promote whiteness and its related ideas of masculinity and individualism in our educational work, it will remain diseased and thwart our efforts to heal the church and the world. But if theological education aims to form people who can gather others together through border-crossing pluralism and God-drenched communion, we can begin to cultivate the radical belonging that is at the heart of God’s transformative work.

In this inaugural volume of the Theological Education between the Times series, Willie James Jennings shares the insights gained from his extensive experience in theological education, most notably as the dean of a major university’s divinity school—where he remains one of the only African Americans to have ever served in that role. He reflects on the distortions hidden in plain sight within the world of education but holds onto abundant hope for what theological education can be and how it can position itself at the front of a massive cultural shift away from white, Western cultural hegemony. This must happen through the formation of what Jennings calls erotic souls within ourselves—erotic in the sense that denotes the power and energy of authentic connection with God and our fellow human beings.

After Whiteness is for anyone who has ever questioned why theological education still matters. It is a call for Christian intellectuals to exchange isolation for intimacy and embrace their place in the crowd—just like the crowd that followed Jesus and experienced his miracles. It is part memoir, part decolonial analysis, and part poetry—a multimodal discourse that deliberately transgresses boundaries, as Jennings hopes theological education will do, too.

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Beverly Gaventa - Pauline Theology

 

Episode: In this episode, Erin interviews Beverly Roberts Gaventa on Pauline theology, her thoughts on pedagogy, and on why Matt Bates is wrong about Karl Barth. This is a republished episode, but well worth a listen!

 

Guest:  Beverly Roberts Gaventa is Distinguished Professor of New Testament at Baylor University. She previously taught at Princeton Theological Seminary, Columbia Seminary, and Colgate Rochester Divinity School. Her specializations include theological and historical interpretation of the letters of Paul, and the letter of Romans in particular. She was the president of the Society of Biblical Literature in 2016, and she has received numerous awards and honorary degrees for her exceptional teaching and research. She is the author of numerous books, including When in Romans, Our Mother Saint Paul, and Apocalyptic Paul: Cosmos and Anthropos in Romans 5-8.

 

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Dru Johnson - Biblical Philosophy

Episode: We're back with our 5th annual "Live at Nashotah House" episode! Hosts Matt Lynch and Dru Johnson discussed Dru's book Biblical Philosophy: A Hebraic Approach to the Old and New Testaments (Cambridge, 2021). Topics covered include the distinctiveness of biblical thought, Sukkot, the Gospel of Mark's emphasis on knowing, the importance of ritual and embodiment, and much more. We even have a surprise (and first-ever-on-this-podcast) display of Dru's musical talent!

Guest/Host: Dr. Dru Johnson is associate professor of biblical and theological studies at The King’s College in New York City, director of theCenter for Hebraic Thought, and host of The Biblical Mind podcast. He’s written 8 books including Knowledge by Ritual (Eisenbrauns/Penn State University), Human Rites: The Power of Rituals, Habits, and Sacraments (Eerdmans, 2019), and Biblical Philosophy: A Hebraic Approach to the Old and New Testaments (Cambridge, 2021). Before that, he was a high-school dropout, skinhead, punk rock drummer, combat veteran, IT supervisor, and pastor.

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Special thanks to Nashotah House Theological Seminary for hosting this event, and to Rebecca Terhune for organizing it.

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Sameer Yadav - Theology, Race, and the Mystical Tradition

Episode: In this wide-ranging episode Amy Brown Hughes talks with Sameer Yadav about the 'promiscuous' nature of theology, his book The Problem of Perception and the Experience of God: Toward a Theological Empiricism, his recent work on apophaticism in the Christian mystical tradition, and race in the philosophy of religion. Enjoy this re-released episode!

Guest: Sameer Yadav is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Westmont. He graduated from Boise State University with a bachelor degree in philosophy, earned a Master of Divinity at Master’s Seminary, a Master of Sacred Theology at Yale Divinity School, and a doctorate in theology and ethics at Duke Divinity School, with a primary concentration in systematic and philosophical theology and minor concentrations in moral theology and Old Testament/Hebrew Bible. He is the author of The Problem of Perception and the Experience of God (Fortress Press, 2015), and has published in various journals including The Journal of Analytic Theology, Journal of Religion, Faith and Philosophy and Pro Ecclesia. He's a member in American Academy of Religion, Society of Christian Philosophers, Society of Christian Ethics, and Society of Scriptural Reasoning. (drawn from the Westmont website)

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Bruce Hindmarsh - The Spirit of Evangelicalism

Episode: This episode is designed to help Evangelicals, especially North American Evangelicals, to get out of their own heads. Bruce Hindmarsh traces the contours of early Evangelicalism as it emerged in Britain and America, and discusses how that historical perspective on Evangelicalism's "spirit" can help shape our interpretation of this present moment.

Guest: Dr. Bruce Hindmarsh is the James M. Houston Professor of Spiritual Theology and Professor of the History of Christianity at Regent College, Vancouver. He completed his D. Phil from Oxford in 1993. He's the author of major books: John Newton and the English Evangelical Tradition (Oxford University Press, 1996), The Evangelical Conversion Narrative (Oxford University Press, 2005), and The Spirit of Early Evangelicalism (Oxford University Press, 2018). Bruce has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards, research grants and fellowships.  He has also been a Mayers Research Fellow at the Huntington Library and a holder of the Henry Luce III Theological Fellowship. Bruce is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a past-president of the American Society of Church History.

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Philip Ziegler - Militant Grace

Episode: Philip Ziegler joins Erin Heim to discuss apocalyptic theology, Pauline literature, and the implications of both for Christian discipleship. They discuss Ziegler's new book, Militant Grace, which constitutes a serious theological engagement and response to the apocalyptic turn in Pauline studies. Along the way, Professor Ziegler shares with us the influence friends and mentors like J. Louis Martyn have had on him both personally and professionally. This is a rebroadcast of an episode originally published in Oct 2019.

Guest (from the University of Aberdeen): Philip Ziegler holds a doctorate from the University of Toronto / Victoria University, where he studied systematic and historical theology, ecumenics and the philosophy of religion at several member colleges of the Toronto School of Theology. He was ordained to the Order of Ministry of the United Church of Canada in 1996. During 2000/1 he was a Junior Fellow of Massey College in the University of Toronto. After holding a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Princeton University's Center for the Study of Religion, he taught at the Atlantic School of Theology in Halifax, Canada as Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology. Philip joined the faculty of the University of Aberdeen as Lecturer in Systematic Theology in January 2006. In 2016 he was appointed to a personal Chair in Christian Dogmatics. He is a Senior Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.

Book: Militant Grace (Baker, 2018) (from the publisher's website):This clear and comprehensive introduction to apocalyptic theology demonstrates the significance of apocalyptic readings of the New Testament for systematic theology and highlights the ethical implications of the apocalyptic turn in biblical and theological studies. Written by a leading theologian and proponent of apocalyptic theology, this primer explores the impact of important recent Pauline scholarship on contemporary theology and argues for a renewed understanding of key Christian doctrines, including sin, grace, revelation, redemption, and the Christian life.

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If you like this: Check  out our interview with Fred Sanders on his book The Triune God.

Beth Felker Jones - Practicing Christian Doctrine

Episode: For some of us the descriptor "systematic theology" evokes a sense of overwhelm or perhaps even carries negative connotations. Friends, it doesn't have to be this way! In this episode co-host Amy Hughes talks with Beth Felker Jones, professor of theology at Northern Seminary in Illinois about her book Practicing Christian Doctrine: An Introduction to Thinking and Living Theologically (Baker Academic, 2014) and gets a sneak peek at her upcoming work on a theology of conversion.

Guest: Beth Felker Jones is professor of theology at Northern Seminary in IL, where she lives with her husband and children. She holds the Ph.D. in theology from Duke University and is the author of books including Pandemic Prayers, Faithful: A Theology of Sex, Practicing Christian Doctrine: An Introduction to Thinking and Living Theologically, and Marks of His Wounds: Gender Politics and Bodily Resurrection.

 

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Lies My Preacher Told Me - Brent Strawn

Episode: Brent Strawn is back for the 3rd time to discuss his new book on mistruths about the Old Testament. Discussion covers everything from divine violence and wrath, to the Old Testament's supposed irrelevance, some reflections on his colleagues, Dr. Ervine Sheblazm as a mentor, and much more. Enjoy this wide-ranging conversation related to his book Lies My Preacher Told Me: An Honest Look at the Old Testament (WJK Press 2021). 

Guest: Dr. Brent Strawn is professor of Old Testament and Law at Duke Divinity School. He taught for 18 years at Candler School of Theology at Emory University before joining the Duke faculty in 2019. He’s the author of several books, including The Old Testament Is Dying (Baker Academic, 2017), The Old Testament: A Concise Introduction (Routledge, 2019), and But today we’re talking about Lies My Preacher Told Me: An Honest Look at the Old Testament (WJK Press 2021). His forthcoming book is called Honest to God Preaching: Talking Sin, Suffering, and Violence (Fortress, 2021).

If you enjoyed this episode ... check out our previous episodes with Brent HERE (on how the Bible isn't a story) and HERE (on how the OT is dying).

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OnScript was voted one of the top 20 theology podcasts! https://blog.feedspot.com/theology_podcasts/

Did you know? OnScript has another podcast called Biblical World, which focuses on the history, cultures, archaeology, and geography of the Bible. Check it out HERE.