Moltmann is the most influential theologian from the 2nd half of the 20th century. In this episode, you will get to hear Moltmann answer our questions like a theological champ. His one-liners are inappropriately zesty!

This is the first half of the live HBC podcast from the American Academy of Religion. You will get to hear Tony Jones and I interview the zesty German one – Moltmann! During the podcast, we celebrate the 40th anniversary of Moltmann’s ground-breaking text The Crucified God.

We were also joined by Jennifer McBride and Philip Clayton. Get ready for the excitement!!

Don’t forget to join Tripp & Diana this Lent for an open online class – Jesus De/constructed! Details here.

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You can check out all his books here.

Dr. Terence E. Fretheim was the Elva B. Lovell Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Luther Seminary, Saint Paul, Minn., where he taught for over forty years.

Enjoy this episode? Then checkout this book.

Don’t forget to check out Cobb’s recent visit to answer the question “Why Whitehead?”

John Cobb taught theology at the Claremont School of Theology from 1958 to 1990. In 2014 he became the first theologian elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences for his interdisciplinary work in ecology, economics, and biology. He has published over 30 books including the first full length text in eco-philosophy.

In 1973, with David Griffin, he established the Center for Process Studies. In retirement he lives at Pilgrim Place in Claremont, California. Throughout his career he has contributed to Whitehead scholarship and promoted process-relational programs and organizations. Most recently, he helped found the Claremont Institute for Process Studies, and has been heavily involved in supporting work toward the goal of China becoming an ecological civilization.

This also happens to be the most downloaded episode in HBC history.

Frank was a legendary Baptist theologian and the first American student of Wolfhart Pannenberg. He was a founding faculty member of the Wake Forest University School of Divinity where he retired in 2016 as Distinguished Professor of Divinity Emeritus.  You can read Frank’s Obituary here.

A Scandalous Providence is framed in a type of narrative theology, but not just the narrative of Jesus, or his own personal narrative, but the narratives of other people. It was born out of a desire to develop an understanding of providence on the basis of the key and crucial narratives in the synoptic portrayals of the story of Jesus – not just for seminarians or scholars, but for the problems of providence in the life of everyone in the church.

Ingolf U. Dalferth (DrTheol, University of Tübingen) is Danforth Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, California. He is also professor emeritus in the faculty of theology at the University of Zurich, where he served as director of the Institute of Hermeneutics and Philosophy of Religion for many years. He has held academic positions at the universities of Durham, Tübingen, Frankfurt, Fribourg, and Copenhagen. Dalferth is the author or editor of over forty books

Dr. Dalferth’s Recent Books

Transcendence and the Secular World: Life in Orientation to Ultimate Presence
Creatures of Possibility: The Theological Basis of Human Freedom
Radical Theology: An Essay on Faith and Theology in the Twenty-First Century
Crucified and Resurrected: Restructuring the Grammar of Christology

This barrel aged edition of the podcast is here so I can share episodes from the last 12 years no longer available in the podcast feed for your nerdy listening pleasure.

Also if you enjoy the conversation then you should totally come join the upcoming reading group with John Cobb on Alfred North Whitehead’s Process and Reality. In this series of lectures John Cobb will provide an introduction to one of the most compelling and challenging philosophical texts of the Twentieth Century. Process and Reality is a notoriously difficult text, but the goal of this course is to enable students to not only skim the surface but probe its deeper dimensions. With his decades of experience as a scholar and teacher of Whitehead, Cobb will elucidate the major themes and illuminate the major concepts in a way that is accessible to anyone.

Dr. McFarland is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Theology and author of a number of books. In this interview we discuss From Nothing: A Theology of Creation and recently he just released The Word Made Flesh: A Theology of the Incarnation.

This episode is sponsored by Candler School of Theology at Emory University.

Candler offers 16 graduate degrees, including a Master of Divinity with a focus on Justice, Peacebuilding, and Conflict Transformation, plus a new program in Chaplaincy Ministries. 100% of Mdiv students get a 50% scholarship and all certified candidates for ordination in the United Methodist Church get their full tuition covered. So go check it out.

While going back through the two episodes I decided to edit them together to make access easy. The biggest surprise I found was this amazing selection in which Dr. McFague reads the end of her last text. It is was moving then, but even more so now. I knew it needed to be shared on its own, so Elgin (11 year old son) created this little video.

Dr. McFague was the Distinguished Theologian in Residence at the Vancouver School of Theology in British Columbia, Canada. Prior she taught for thirty years at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. In the podcast we cover a lot of ground, including how Sallie became a theologian (which includes a kindergarten revelation), her focus on religious language, radical love, kenosis, panentheism, and even some member submitted questions, including:

1. How does her concept of wild spaces address privilege
2. In the revival of radical theology recently, how do you understand the reality of God?
3. Where should one start with feminist theology?
4. What do you think about the increased usage of the term Anthropocene?

And don’t forget to check out Sallie’s books, Blessed Are The Consumers and Models Of God. These two texts changed my mind in significant ways.

Professor Michael Welker is a Senior Professor at the University of Heidelberg (since 2013) and Director of the Research Center International and Interdisciplinary Theology (FIIT, since 2005) and an Honorary Professor at Seoul Theological University.

He is a member of the Heidelberg Academy and Corresponding Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and received the Medal of the University of Heidelberg. Karl-Barth-Preis award in 2016.

For lots of info on Dr. Welker check out his website HERE.

Want to check out Dr. Welker’s Gifford Lectures? Head over here and you can find the videos, audio, and written responses.

Was Saint Nick white? Did Saint Nick really slap Arius at the Council of Nicea? Whose side would Saint Nick take in the war on Christmas?

This is an all Saint Nick barrel-aged episode with Adam English. Learn about the historical St. Nick, the person behind the myths and legends and the confusion surrounding him, how he challenged systems of oppression, a brief history of Catholic social teachings, and how St. Nick provides the best model for the Christmas season.

Adam talks about the types of practical questions the christological heart of St. Nick poses to the church in the Christmas season, the ways we edit not just the historical person of St. Nick, but also the incarnation and birth narratives of Jesus to make them more palatable for our contemporary society, and he asks: do we need to get rid of Christmas to save it? or do we just give in and remove any vestige of Christ from Christmas? Plus, Tripp and Adam talk about how to negotiate (especially for parents) the history and myth of St. Nick while also preserving the mystery.

If you’re interested in reading more (and some excellent stocking stuffers) check out these books by Adam:

The Saint Who Would Be Santa Claus, and Christmas: Theological Anticipations

It’s not too late to get your tickets for the LIVE podcast in DC with Diana Butler Bass and the folks from Crackers and Grape Juice in on December 16th. You can get tickets and learn more here.

This is one of Tripp’s favorite interviews from the early days. This was John Thatamanil‘s first visit, before he started teaching at Union theological seminary, where he teaches now. John and Tripp talk about:

• polydoxy
• divine immanence
• the relationship between Whitehead and Tillich
• nonduality and the Christian tradition
• and religious pluralism

You can check out some of John’s articles on Huffpost, a recent video he recorded with Robert Wright, or his book The Immanent Divine.

Also check out the most recent episode with Adam English, where he grills Tripp about his book in Raleigh, and his book on St. Nicholas, The Saint Who Would Be Santa Claus. 

Eastern University professor Phillip Cary talks about Christian anxiety and how the traditional Catholic, Lutheran, and Calvinist notions of Christianity settle certain human anxieties.

• am I in a state of mortal sin?
• how can I be sure that I’m in a state of grace?
• do I have true faith?
• how do I know it’s God’s voice?

You can check out some of Phillip’s classes on the Teaching Company website here, or his books Good News for Anxious Christians, Augustine’s Invention of the Inner Self, and his commentary on Jonah.

Chad and Tripp begin by playing a theological name game, where Bishop Tom talks about:

• Bart Ehrman
• John Sheldy Spong
• Luke Timothy Johnson
• Marcus Borg
• John Dominic Crossan
• Jurgen Moltmann
• E.P. Sanders
• Richard Hays
• Stanley Hauerwas

Plus: the important choice he made not to decide between being an academic or priest, and golf as an eccumenical exercise.

You can check out After You Believe and Surprised By Hope plus much, much more on his Amazon page.

One of Tripp’s favorite NT scholars is featured in this Barrel Aged episode: Neil Elliott is on talking about his book, The Arrogance of Nations, plus how we can re-frame the Roman Road. It’s not about Christian identity, but about issues of justice and power.

Get an orientation about the world Paul existed in, and what role Paul played in that world. And make sure you around to the end, because Neil gives advice to ministers who are wrestling with these texts in the American imperial context:

• What does it mean to live faithfully a robust Pauline Christianity in today’s political landscape?
• Does Romans 1 really condemn homosexuality?
• How is God’s justice different from the empire’s justice?

Other books mentioned in the episode: Liberating Paul, and God Mystery Diversity

Robert Mesle (you can call him Bob) joined the podcast to give an introduction to Alfred North Whitehead based on his book, Process-Relational Philosophy: an Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead. This must-read intro clearly articulates Whitehead’s philosophy without a lot of technical language or headaches.

What would Bob say if you were riding in an elevator and he had 90 seconds to explain process-relational philosophy???

• broad vision of the nature of the world and reality
• helps people address issues of evil
• applies to other fields, not just Christianity or religion (e.g. why did the stock market crash?)
• a way to say we are all in this together
• we should be concerned with the common good, not just what’s best for us.

Learn about what motivated Whitehead, God’s work in the world, why God loves the world, and what makes freedom possible. Plus, denominational light bulb jokes and Jonathan Taylor Thomas tells us what he’s been up to.

Don’t miss

5 Extremely Zesty Reasons You Should Go #ProcessCurious with Tripp and Monica A. Coleman on May 10th. Click here to learn more and here to signup for the webinar. 

theology.  Standing in the tradition of greats like Paul Tillich and David Tracy, Roger seeks to articulate Christian theology for and to the cultural context.  In his career he has focused his attention on the postmodern context of the West, those who wrestle permanently with doubt and stand on the boundary of the church with their questions.  In addressing these people Dr. Haight reveals what is possible when the beauty of the Christian tradition is correlated with the questions and anxieties of people today.  In this conversation we discuss his work in Christology but end up touching on a whole number of other issues including religious pluralism, ecclesiology, the nature of Orthodoxy, and the application of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises for the entire church.

As you may know, Roger Haight has had a quarrel with the Vatican over his Christology.  As we begin a series here at the podcast on Christology, I imagine you will begin to notice through comparison and increased understanding of the theological context and questions present today, that Roger is a faithful Christian theologian attempting to contribute constructively to the thought and practice of a church he loves.  Of course you can decide yourself!

Robert Wright is Visiting Professor of Science and Religion at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York.  He is the author, most recently, of The Evolution of God,which was a New York Times bestseller and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His other books include The Moral Animal: Evolutionary Psychology and Everyday Life, which The New York Times Book Review named one of the ten best books of 1994, and Nonzero, which Bill Clinton called “astonishing” and instructed White House staff members to read. In 2009 Wright was named by Foreign Policy magazine as one of the top 100 global thinkers. Wright has written for The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Foreign Policy, and the op-ed pages of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Financial Times. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and his awards include the National Magazine Award for Essay and Criticism. Wright is editor-in-chief of the websites Bloggingheads.tv and Meaningoflife.tv.

** November 4-7th in Springfield, MO Get your Tickets for Subverting the Norm III with the discount code HBCSTN & the Theology Nerd Bootcamp with Jack Caputo **

In this episode we discuss how his neo-Whiteheadian philosophy helps him give an account of Jesus Christ.  The end of the podcast is really cool where he interprets passages with his philosophy.  Enjoy!

Make sure to check out his most recent visit to the podcast where we discuss emergence, panentheism and process theology.

Check out  ENFOLDING SPIRITUALITY – NOVEMBER 12-14, 2015 with Don Beck, Rob Bell, Holly Roach, Teresa Pasquale, Max Johnson and more. I will be saying some things and there shall be an epic live podcast. Prepare yourself. Use the code: HBC for 10% off your ticket.

When we recorded this conversation she was working on the book and once you go get it and read it you will notice she brought this awesomeness to the entire text.

Check out her previous visit to the podcast where we discuss her book Quest for the Living God.

Don’t forget to check out the Homebrewed Christianity Community. If you join as an Elder or Bishop you
will be a part of the Epic Reads series where Philip Clayton and Tripp will read, teach and discuss some Epic Reads. One of the texts for this year is Elizabeth Johnson’s She Who Is.

Don’t forget to subscribe & review the Barrel Aged podcast stream.

On the Homebrewed Barrel Aged podcasts, we pull out some of the best interviews from the first five years of the Homebrewed Christianity podcast. These gems get an audio facelift and then released for your enjoyment.

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Browse the episodes here.

Make sure to check out his other appearances on the podcast: The Genealogy of Liberal Theology from the Progressive Youth Ministry Conference and Why write a liberal theology? where we discuss volume one God the Creator in Theology for Liberal Protestants.

You can also check out her visit where we discussed her follow-up text Emergence Christianity and then the EPIC live event when she last came to LA.

Thomas Jay Oord is a theologian, philosopher, and scholar of multi-disciplinary studies. He is the author or editor of more than twenty books and professor at Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, Idaho. Oord is known for his contributions to research on love, relational theology, science and religion, Wesleyan/Holiness/Church of the Nazarene thought and Evangelical theology.

Check out Tom’s books we discussed: The Many Facets of Love: Philosophical Explorations and Science of Love: The Wisdom of Well-Being.

If you enjoy this don’t forget to check out his return visit to the podcast where he gives an audiological Guide to the Bible and subscribe to the Barrel Aged stream on iTunes.

It’s Advent season and many of us are getting ready to rock a towel over our head, glue a beard on our kids, and add a fresh layer of glitter to some angel wings. Why not plug in your ear buds and have John Dominic Crossan discuss the birth narratives of Jesus? You can nerd out and wrap gifts at the same time.

Dom Crossan has been on the podcast a number of times and on this Barrel Aged podcast we are re-releasing his second visit almost 5 years ago. We talk about his book The First Christmas and Crossan answers questions that many of our Deacons called in.

If you have yet to subscribe to the Barrel Aged podcast stream go here and do it. You can also be awesome and write a review on iTunes or Stitcher.

Catherine is a theological poet…theology needs more poets!!! Many thanks to Catherine for sharing her imagination and time.  May you all join the Nicolas of Cusa fan club.

Don’t forget to make your plans to attend a LIVE Homebrewed Christianity Podcast w/ Catherine Keller & John Cobb at the 2014 AAR/SBL gathering in San Diego.  It will be Friday November 21, 2014 from 700-900 pm at the Hilton Bayfront in room 202-A.  Anyone & everyone is welcome.

At the end of the interview I mention a very accessible book he wrote that intros the conversation of Empire and the New Testament.  If you are looking for a place to start then get The Roman Empire and the New Testament: An Essential Guide.  

On the Homebrewed Barrel Aged podcasts we pull out some of the best interviews from the first 5 years of the podcast.  These gems get an audio facelift and then released from your enjoyment.

Barrel Aged on Feedburner

Barrel Aged on Stitcher.

Barrel Aged in iTunes (drop a 5 star review if you want to be awesome)

Browse the episodes here.

The Rev. Dr. Emilie M. Townes, a distinguished scholar and leader in theological education, is dean of Vanderbilt Divinity School. She is also the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society.  When she first visited the podcast we discussed the origins of

Womanist theology and her book Womanist Ethics and the Cultural Production of Evil & now we are bringing that interview back out for all our new listeners.  

This book contains the essay she was working on and mentions during the conversation.  Here’s the Divinity School Application for Liberals we discuss.

If you want to keep up with the other Barrel Aged interviews make sure you go subscribe (and rate) the new show.  It will continue to feature the best interviews from our first 4 years.

You can also check out the most recent visit from Dr. Pugh Conjuring Satan and Doing Theology discussing his collection of Satan’s blog posts.

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Dr. C. Robert Mesle’s 136-page introduction to process-relational philosophy is a must-read for anyone new to process or who wants to be able to clearly articulate Afred North Whitehead‘s philosophy to others without a lot of technical language or headaches.  You can check out his podcast about the text HERE.  You should also check out his introduction to Process Theology which again is the best for a newbie.

*** If you enjoy all the Homebrewed Christianity Podcasts then consider sending us a donation via paypal. We got bandwidth to buy & audiological goodness to dispense. We will also get a percentage of your Amazon purchase through this link OR you can send us a few and get us a pint!***

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With over 5 years of interviews under out belt – having gone from just friends listening to 50k – realizing that there are a ton of people who can’t get the best interviews from the past – let us introduce you to Homebrewed Christianity Barrel Aged podcast. I will be re-releasing the best interviews from the early days, super-short new intros, and hopefully doctored audio. In order to keep getting these podcasts you will need to go subscribe to the Barrel Aged podcast stream HERE. While you are there review us and share the word.

*** If you enjoy all the Homebrewed Christianity Podcasts then consider sending us a donation via paypal. We got bandwidth to buy & audiological goodness to dispense. We will also get a percentage of your Amazon purchase through this link OR you can send us a few and get us a pint!***

Want to read some of Cobb’s Christology? Then go check out Christ in a Pluralistic Age.

With over 5 years of interviews under out belt – having gone from just friends listening to 50k – realizing that there are a ton of people who can’t get the best interviews from the past – let us introduce you to Homebrewed Christianity Barrel Aged podcast. I will be re-releasing the best interviews from the early days, super-short new intros, and hopefully doctored audio. In order to keep getting these podcasts you will need to go subscribe to the Barrel Aged podcast stream HERE. While you are there review us and share the word.

*** If you enjoy all the Homebrewed Christianity Podcasts then consider sending us a donation via paypal. We got bandwidth to buy & audiological goodness to dispense. We will also get a percentage of your Amazon purchase through this link OR you can send us a few and get us a pint!***

The 20th century was an amazing time for the doctrine of God. All of a sudden the church unleashed a bunch of voices previously silenced to hear their testimony, explorations & experiences of God… and theology got so much better.  Legendary Catholic Theologian – Elizabeth Johnson – is on this episode of the Barrel Aged Homebrewed Podcast.  We discuss her book Quest for the Living God  which is simply one of the best introductions to theology I know.  It is super readable, intellectually honest, and energizing for the theo-nerd brain.  I have given this book as a gift to a bunch of my friends and constantly get told “wow that was way too clear for a theology book!”

With over 5 years of interviews under out belt – having gone from just friends listening to 50k – realizing that there are a ton of people who can’t get the best interviews from the past – let us introduce you to Homebrewed Christianity Barrel Aged podcast. I will be re-releasing the best interviews from the early days, super-short new intros, and hopefully doctored audio.  In order to keep getting these podcasts you will need to go subscribe to the Barrel Aged podcast stream HERE.  While you are there review us and share the word.

*** If you enjoy all the Homebrewed Christianity Podcasts then consider sending us a donation via paypal. We got bandwidth to buy & audiological goodness to dispense. We will also get a percentage of your Amazon purchase through this link OR you can send us a few and get us a pint!***

Make sure you check out the amazing bloggers engaging Caputo’s newest book The Insistence of God on a Homebrewed Book Tour.

*** If you enjoy all the Homebrewed Christianity Podcasts then consider sending us a donation via paypal. We got bandwidth to buy & audiological goodness to dispense. We will also get a percentage of your Amazon purchase through this link OR you can send us a few and get us a pint!***

With over 5 years of interviews under out belt – having gone from just friends listening to 50k – realizing that there are a ton of people who can’t get the best interviews from the past – let us introduce you to Homebrewed Christianity Barrel Aged podcast.  I will be re-releasing the best interviews from the early days, super-short new intros, and hopefully doctored audio.  Let me know what you think of the idea.  If enough people want to early stuff I will make the series it’s own stream and get the first 100 interviews out so newer Deacons can download them.

The first coming out of Barrel Aging is Crossan’s first visit to the podcast.  It was first released in April 2008 but the conversation is still packed full of Biblical Prophetic thunder in Crossan’s awesome Irish accent.  If you enjoy the episode let us know & go pick up the book God & Empire in paperback.
*** If you enjoy all the Homebrewed Christianity Podcasts then consider sending us a donation via paypal. We got bandwidth to buy & audiological goodness to dispense. We will also get a percentage of your Amazon purchase through this link OR you can send us a few and get us a pint!***