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Salvation in a Post-Truth Age with Adam Clark Mar 15, 2017

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To celebrate the launch of Theology Beer Camp: Summer Edition we are sharing some of our favorite moments from the first Theology Beer Camp earlier this year.

This is friend of the podcast, professor at Xavier, and author of the Homebrewed Guide to Salvation Adam Clark's session from the first Theology Beer Camp.

Adam talks about notions of salvation in scripture, gives a survey of different atonement theories, and challenges our assumptions about what salvation is in our post-truth age.

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Peter Rollins Casts Out a Demon & Plans a Middle School Purity Retreat #theologybeercamp Mar 13, 2017

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Pete and Tripp are back for another bonus episode.

To help get ready for the launch of Theology Beer Camp in Denver and Oklahoma City this August, Peter Rollins and Tripp got on Facebook live to answer your questions.

In this episode:

you'll get to hear how Pete would run a youth group purity retreat
what they think about mysticism in our modern context
whether your decision to drink that delicious IPA was your choosing or determined
how to dress like Pete and Tripp
and, for the first time, hear Pete talk about casting out demons

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Why Go Wesleyan? with Thomas Jay Oord Mar 10, 2017

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Are you ready to get your heart strangely warmed?

Next up in the Why Go? series, Thomas Jay Oord joins Tripp to talk about why you should go Wesleyan. Tom gives 13 reasons, including:

God's primary attribute is love
God is triune
God acts first in every moment to offer salvation, and humans freely respond to God's offer
God does not predestine some to heaven and others to hell
God values and seeks to redeem all creation: humans and non-humans alike

and more!

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Theology, Politics, and Anxiety with David Gushee Mar 08, 2017

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How do we, as Christians, interact with those people who raise our anxiety level?

Theological ethicist at Mercer University David Gushee is on to talk about his book, "A Letter to My Anxious Christian Friends." This book was written before the election, and little did he know how many more anxious Christian friends he would gain after the election.

Gushee says that anxious, white Christians helped to swing the election in favor of Donald Trump. Their anxiety was crucial to his political platform, anxiety about:

the loss of Christian faith in the country
loss of white hegemony and power
security related to terrorism and immigration
the economy
the dominance of cultural elites who don't share their values
political correctness
anxiety over the future of America as a multi-religious and multi-ethnic country
a country where authoritative white, male leaders are no longer in charge

All of that was coded into this election in one way or another. Donald Trump tapped those anxieties and made a winning campaign out of them.

When theology and politics get together people can get anxious. So this conversation is especially pertinent given out current theo-political climate.

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Face Booking with Pete Mar 06, 2017

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Peter Rollins and Tripp wanted to make a special bonus episode to make sure that you know about Theology Beer Camp this summer in Denver and Oklahoma City.

Pete and Tripp take questions submitted by you (yes, you!) and discuss their favorite parables, atonement theories, and pre-meal prayers. They will be doing another Facebook Live video Monday, March 13th at 9:30am Pacific. So if you want to hear Pete and Tripp tell the other one why they're wrong again, tune in to Pete's Facebook page next Monday. And if you have questions or topics you'd like to hear them discuss, you can shoot us a tweet, email, smoke signal, or carrier pigeon.

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Why Go Kierkegaard? with Stephen Backhouse Mar 01, 2017

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We're all Kierkegaardians, whether we know it or not.

So why not hear 5 reasons to let Soren salt your theological grub. Stephen Backhouse, author of the new Kierkegaard biography, Kierkegaard: A Single Life, give us five reasons to embrace our Kierkegaardian inheritance.

Why go Kierkegaard? There is not school or church of Kierkegaard. He made sure that there could not be. Instead, he is the salt to your steak, the pepper to the sauce, the lemon zest to the beer. Kierkegaard will:

help you find the point
help you articulate what the !£%$ is wrong with Christianity in your country
help you articulate what the !£%$ is right with Christianity in your country
help you become a person
help you become a better person

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Divine Simplicity, the Incarnation, and Inclusion with Paul Hinlicky Feb 28, 2017

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Buckle your theological safety belts.

If you're a theology nerd, just prepare yourself: it's about to get real. Paul Hinlicky, professor of Lutheran Studies at Roanoke College, is on talking about his new book, Divine Simplicity.

In this conversation, Tripp and Paul talk about:

divine simplicity
how christology is a challenge to the normal way we do metaphysics
divine revelation
and the situatedness of knowledge

If you hang out long enough with medieval theologians, and bring their ideas to the present, things can get pretty radical. Plus, Paul explains what happens when the the church has made inclusion a lazy version of tolerance. Hint: it actually ends up collapsing difference.

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Altarization and the Religious Significance of Pop Culture Feb 22, 2017

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There's a new sacred in town.

Today we are going to talk about the altars where we worship, and it just so happens that is the name of a new book by Juan Floyd-Thomas, Stacey Floyd-Thomas, and Mark Toulouse - The Altars Where We Worship: The Religious Significance of Pop Culture.

We were joined by all three authors to talk about the relationship of religion and culture, the religious nature of culture, sports (which of course means the Lakers), reclaiming Marx's cultural criticism today, the movie Zootopia, but, sadly, not August and Everything After by the Counting Crows.

There are seven attributes of organized religion that also exist in popular culture. They are:

doctrine
myth
ethics
ritual
experience
institutions
material

Juan, Stacey, and Mark use these to figure out how people find the sacred in:

body and sex
big business
entertainment
politics
sports
science and technology

If you've ever been worried that some of the podcasts are too nerdy and you just want something cool and smart to say about movies, music, sports, culture, etc., then this is the interview for you.

Books mentioned in this episode: The Religious Experience of Mankind and Worldviews by Ninian Smart

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Theological Tailgating with Phil and Tripp Feb 20, 2017

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This is an audiological taste of what happened at the first annual Theology Beer Camp.

During this special session of theological tailgating Philip Clayton and Tripp got all processy and talked about Jesus, God, creation, science - all while a cornhole tournament happened below!

If after listening to this you've got some questions about process theology you should let us know! We will be doing an intro to process episode and want your input. So send us a tweet, or email us your questions. Or, you could just join the Homebrewed Community (click, "Join the Community"above) and get access to the secret Facebook group and submit your questions there.

This session is meant to push process people towards Christian categories and questions, and push the Christian people in the direction of process, and to be heretical on both sides. This is meant to be really funny and serious constructive theology.

Phil and Tripp take classical Christian questions, mix them with a little process thought, and see what happens. They start with Jesus's relationship to God, God's relationship to creation, and the resurrection. Then they tackle the relationship of science and Christianity, the importance of the historical narrative of Israel, reverse salvation from sanctification, relational eschatology, and how the Jewish notion of Messiah is really processy.

Plus, Tripp tells you what two worldviews/theologies irritate him the most.

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Why Go Barthian? with Travis McMaken Feb 16, 2017

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This episode of The Theology Nerd podcast is the Why Go Barthian? Webinar with Travis McMaken. This is another installment of our ongoing Why Go? series.

In this episode you will get 5 reasons why you should go Barthian, plus:

What does it mean to be Barthian? Barth didn't want people to be Barthians, he wanted people to be theologians who spoke critically and carefully about Jesus.
The three phases of Barth's career
Being a Barthian does not mean being neo-Orthodox.
Barth was not a lone ranger, but was part of a broader dialectical theology movement. It's important to ask who these other people are, what their shared assumptions were, what were the things they rejected together, and how do each of them remain uniquely faithful to the movement as a whole.
And what exactly is dialectical theology anyway?

Make sure to hit up Travis on twitter @WTravisMcMaken and check out his website.

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