THE CHARGE with Dennis Metzler

Feb 06 2025 94 ep. 60 mins
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Theology, spiritualty, ethics, culture, history, and related pursuits

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Desire and the Christian Life--A Theological Approach: "The Gift of Thorns" with Dr. A.J. Swoboda

Feb 06 2025 51 mins  
Dr. Swoboda looks at desire from a theological perspective. Our discussion covers God's desire, human desire, Satan's desire, fleshly desire, undesired desire, ordering desire, duty and desire, and best practices as they relate to desire. I, Dennis, would love to hear from you. Please leave a comment or send me an email at [email protected] Dr. A.J. Swoboda is professor of

The Question of Divine Omnipotence: Dr. Katherine Sonderegger’s Systematic Theology

Feb 06 2025 77 mins  
Dr. Sonderegger discusses divine omnipotence in light of Scripture, Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, Barth, and process theologians. We look at omnipotence as it relates to God’s benevolence, theodicy, meticulous providence, sovereignty, God’s attributes, holiness, humility, weakness, the cross, the supernatural, “acts of God”, subjectivity and objectivity, the Trinity, and God�

Christian Personalist Ethics: More Than Things with Dr. Paul Louis Metzger

Feb 06 2025 82 mins  
Dr. Metzger explains the nature and place of personalist ethics from a Christian perspective. We discuss his understanding of a person, his categories of faith and entangled ethics, hope and eschatological ethics, and love and embodied ethics as well as his metaphysical and methodological frameworks. Metzger continues with various contemporary ethical issues including disability, u

Michael J. Gorman's Big NT Theological Ideas: Resurrectional Cruciformity, Missional Theosis, & More

Oct 10 2024 77 mins  
New Testament Scholar Dr. Michael J. Gorman explains his views on significant theological concepts: Paul's narrative spirituality and narrative soteriology, kenosis, justification by co-crucifixion, participating in Christ, resurrectional cruciformity, missional theosis, early Christian ethics, non-violence, and new covenant atonement. I, Dennis, would love to hear from you. Please

Atonement Theology, Theories, and Models with Dr. Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen

Oct 10 2024 85 mins  
Dr. Kärkkäinen discusses the atonement in relation to soteriology and reconciliation as well as the concepts of theory, model, and metaphor. We cover Christus Victor, recapitulation, ransom, satisfaction, moral example, and penal substitution models. Karkkainen then focuses on the non-violent understanding of the atonement and then considers the Incarnation, the suffering of Jesu

Dr. Alister McGrath--Christian Apologetics: An Introduction--Why Believe in God?

Oct 10 2024 57 mins  
With three doctorates from Oxford and over 50 books to his credit, Dr. Alister McGrath is well-equipped to discuss apologetics including core elements, the inference to the best explanation, Dawkins' demand for a proof, and points of contact including a sense of longing, the beauty of the world, the ordering of nature, a sense of wonder, a sense of moral obligation, existential anx

Liberating Those on the Margins: "The Beautiful Gate" with Dr. Bob Ekblad

Oct 10 2024 97 mins  
Bob Ekblad discusses the nature of his ministry to the marginalized, his philosophy of ministry, the theology of the cross, the "outside the gate" concept, the biblical "powers", the church as resisting community, and several stories where he put his faith into action. I, Dennis, would love to hear from you. Please leave a comment or email me at [email protected] Check out

Bonhoeffer: Pacifist or Conspirator Against Hitler? Discipleship in a World of Nazis w/ Mark Nation

Oct 05 2024 92 mins  
Historical orthodoxy has it that Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer participated in some way at some level in a plot to assassinate Hitler. Dr. Mark Thiessen challenges this reading of history, arguing that Bonhoeffer maintained his pacifism till the end. Dr. Nation considers the views of other Bonhoeffer scholars, the biographical work of Eberhard Bethge, the writi

What Should I Believe? ----Curveball: God and the Journey of Faith with Dr. Peter Enns

Oct 05 2024 61 mins  
Dr. Peter Enns discusses his personal story, Wesley's quadrilateral, Rohr's tricycle, orthodoxy, OT biblical stories as something other than history, his critique of conservative biblical interpretation, C.S. Lewis and theosis, science and evolution, and near death experiences. I, Dennis, would love to hear from you. Please leave a comment or send me an email at thecharge.info@gmai

Persons: Nature, Thought, Feeling, Perception, Will, Origin: Joshua Rasmussen: Who Are You, Really?

Oct 05 2024 100 mins  
Dr. Joshua Rasmussen discusses various lines of thought related to understanding the nature and origin of the human person. We look at inquiry in terms of introspection, reason, and the scientific method as well as feelings according to eliminativism, reductionism, non-reductive materialism, and the something more view. We next consider thought in relation to the aspects of aboutne