Pierced by Love (with Dr Hans Boersma)

June 1, 2023May 30, 2023 ~ Alastair Roberts ~ Leave a comment

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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Conversation with Jonathan Pageau on Symbolism

December 31, 2019 ~ Alastair Roberts ~ Leave a comment

I recently had the privilege of a conversation with Jonathan Pageau, the Orthodox artist, speaker, and YouTuber who runs The Symbolic World. I’ve been an appreciative follower of Pageau’s work for some time now—his brother Matthieu’s work on biblical symbolism is also superb—so it was wonderful to speak more directly.

Grammatical Historical Exegesis and a Theopolitan Hermeneutic

September 20, 2019 ~ Alastair Roberts ~ Leave a comment

What differences would you highlight when comparing the Theopolitan Hermeneutic and a traditional grammatical-historical approach? Also, would you make any significant distinctions between the Theopolitan Hermeneutic and Iain Provan’s “Seriously Literal” interpretive rubric that he lays out in his latest book The Reformation and the Right Reading of Scripture? He states that his Seriously Literal approach is “to read [Scripture] in accord with its various, apparent communicative intentions as a collection of texts from the past now integrated into one Great Story, doing justice to such realities as literary convention, idiom, metaphor, and typology or figuration.”

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Theopolis Podcast: Q&A with Peter Leithart and Jeff Meyers (Theopolis Logo, Patristic Hermeneutics, the Law, Baptism)

September 13, 2019 ~ Alastair Roberts ~ Leave a comment

Peter Leithart, Jeff Meyers, and I answer three questions sent in by listeners: 1. What does the Theopolis logo mean? 2. What are some good books on patristic hermenetics? 3. Why does Paul seemingly speak negatively about the Law, when other passages exalt the law? 4. What does baptism do for a person?

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