BRIDGING THEOLOGY

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The Bridging Theology Podcast connects the heart of academic scholarship to the Christian life. Hosted by an interdenominational, interdisciplinary, international team of scholars, the Bridging Theology Podcast is committed to helping listeners understand and engage with the work of leading and emerging Christian thinkers. If you desire to have a thoughtful Christian faith, then this is a podcast for you. Join us as we consider the spirituality of the intellectual life and seek to love God with our minds and hearts.

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S3E6 Christopher M. Hays: Eight Million Exiles - Missional Action Research and the Crisis of Forced Migration

May 15 2024 49 mins

Co-hosts Claudia Herrera-Montero and Kevin Hill speak with Christopher M. Hays about his new book, Eight Million Exiles: Missional Action Research and the Crisis of Forced Migration (Eerdmans, 2024). Christopher joined Scholar Leaders as President in 2022 after serving as a missionary and professor of New Testament at the Biblical Seminary of Colombia in Medellín. A Biblical schol

S3E5 Alan J. Torrance and Andrew B. Torrance: Beyond Immanence - The Theological Vision of Kierkegaard and Barth

Apr 30 2024 54 mins

Co-host Kevin Hill and guest co-host Ross Von Hausen speak with Alan J. Torrance and Andrew B. Torrance about their new book, Beyond Immanence: The Theological Vision of Kierkegaard and Barth (Eerdmans, 2023). Alan J. Torrance is professor emeritus of systematic theology at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Persons in Communion: Trinitarian Description and Human Pa

S3E4 Michael F. Bird: Jesus and the Powers

Apr 16 2024 51 mins

Co-hosts Beth Stovell and Ryan Reed join Michael F. Bird to discuss his new book, Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies, co-authored with N. T. Wright (Zondervan, 2024). Michael F. Bird is Deputy Principal and Lecturer in New Testament at Ridley College, Australia. He is the author of numerous scholarly and

S3E3 Elizabeth Conde-Frazier: Atando Cabos, Latinx Contributions to Theological Education

Apr 02 2024 67 mins

Co-hosts Claudia Herrera-Montero and Candace Smith speak with Elizabeth Conde-Frazier about her new book Atando Cabos, Latinx Contributions to Theological Education, published by Eerdmans in 2021. Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Conde-Frazier is the author of the book Atando Cabos, Latinx Contributions to Theological Education, published by Eerdmans in 2021. Her fields of study are Christian Ed

S3E2 Stefana Dan Laing: Retrieving History - Memory and Identity Formation in the Early Church

Mar 19 2024 72 mins

Co-hosts Kevin Hill and Claudia Herrera-Montero speak with Stefana Dan Laing about her new book, Retrieving History - Memory and Identity Formation in the Early Church (Baker 2017). Stefana Dan Laing is Associate Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School. --- Season 3 of the Bridging Theology Podcast is sponsored by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. With a history spann

S3E1 Andrew J. Brown: Recruiting the Ancients for the Creation Debate

Mar 05 2024 56 mins

Co-hosts Beth Stovell and Ryan Reed speak with Andrew J. Brown about his new book, Recruiting the Ancients for the Creation Debate (Eerdmans 2023). Andrew J. Brown is Old Testament Lecturer at the Melbourne School of Theology. He is also the author of The Days of Creation: A History of Christian Interpretation of Genesis 1:1-2:3. --- Season 3 of the Bridging Theology Podcast is spo

S2E13 Diana L. Hayes on Womanist Theology and Spirituality

Feb 06 2024 66 mins

Diana L. Hayes is a Professor of Systematic Theology in the Department of Theology at Georgetown. Her areas of specialization are Womanist Theology, Black Theology, U.S. Liberation Theologies, Contextual Theologies, Religion and Public Life, and African American and Womanist Spirituality. Dr. Hayes is the first African American woman to receive the Pontifical Doctor of Sacred Theol

S2E12 Matthew W. Bates on Why the Gospel? Living the Good News of King Jesus with Purpose (With Co-Hosts Beth Stovell and Ryan Reed)

Dec 14 2023 56 mins

Matthew W. Bates is professor of theology at Quincy University. A Protestant who enjoys the challenge of teaching in a Catholic context, Bates holds an M.C.S. from Regent College (biblical studies) and a PhD from University of Notre Dame (theology, New Testament). He is cofounder of the OnScript podcast. Bates's books include Why the Gospel? Living the Good News of King Jesus With

S2E11 Steven W. Tyra on Faith, Education, and Christian History and Theology

Nov 29 2023 47 mins

Steven W. Tyra holds a PhD from Baylor University. His research centers on early modern Switzerland and France. He also teaches History, Literature, and Latin at Live Oak Classical School in Waco, TX. Since January 2022, he has been the Robert Pool Fellow in Law and Christianity at Emory University School of Law.

S2E10 Jennifer Herdt on the Good Life with Co-Hosts Jon Stovell and Ryan Reed

Oct 31 2023 60 mins

Jennifer A. Herdt is Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics at Yale University’s Divinity School. She is the author, most recently, of Assuming Responsibility: Ecstatic Eudaimonism and the Call to Live Well(link is external). Her 2019 book, Forming Humanity: Redeeming the German Bildung Tradition(link is external), was supported by a research fellowship from the Alexander

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