Category: Hermeneutics

Pierced by Love (with Dr Hans Boersma)

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We’ve wanted to talk about lectio divina for some time. Dr Hans Boersma, author of Pierced by Love: Divine Reading with the Christian Tradition, returns to the podcast for a conversation about it with us.

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Beautiful Union (with Joshua Ryan Butler)

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Joshua Ryan Butler’s recently released book, Beautiful Union: How God’s Vision for Sex Points Us to the Good, Unlocks the True, and (Sort of) Explains Everything has occasioned considerable online controversy. Matt, Andrew, and I get into it all with him.

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Theopolis Podcast Q&A Session (The Spirit, Sacramental Administration, Sursum Corda, Judges 19 and Domestic Abuse)

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This is our second Theopolis Podcast Q&A episode. In this session, Peter Leithart, Jeff Meyers, James Bejon, and I discuss the Spirit in creation, the proper administration of the sacraments, the placement of the sursum corda, and how to speak of Judges 19, the story of the Levite and his concubine, in relation to questions of domestic abuse.

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Protestants & History (with Paul Gutacker)

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Paul Gutacker, the author of The Old Faith in a New Nation: American Protestants and the Christian Past, joined us for a discussion of how American Protestant understandings of sola scriptura and biblical authority played out in the context of the Civil War and debates around slavery.

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Chapters 18 & 19 (Through New Eyes)

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We finish our discussion of James Jordan’s Through New Eyes: Developing a Biblical View of the World, talking about its final two chapters.

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Chapter 16 (Through New Eyes)

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Our series on James Jordan’s Through New Eyes: Developing a Biblical View of the World continues as Peter Leithart, Jeff Meyers, and I discuss the sixteenth chapter of the book, ‘The World of the Temple’.

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