Welcome to our next Gospel Conversations podcast and apologies that there has been a bit of a lag. We try to keep up a regular feed but life intervenes as I am sure you all would know… grandparenting and sickness etc. Anyway here we are. This is a little unplanned diversion from our Ilaria Ramelli series - but a pretty connected one.

On our last episode Ilaria explained her half of the twin books on A Larger Hope which was the early church. Robin Parry wrote the other half which was about more recent history. Fortuitously we found a great video Robin did highlighting some of these experiences of how prominent theologians and pastors ‘changed their minds’ and embraced the doctrine that God in the end will be ‘all and in all’.

Here it is - Robin at his gentle, intelligent best. What I like about this talk is that it focuses on journeys not just systematic arguments. Journeys or experiences are a great way to explain points of view and intellectual histories. They give us the human face of knowledge - and are more true to life than systematic arguments in some ways. All of us develop and change our minds, and the circumstances by which we do shine a light on where we end up.

As I say in my introduction, Robin’s work as an editor for Wipfandstock has sharpened his ability to evaluate and present succinct arguments - and given him an unusually broad grasp of theological trends. So enjoy this talk.

And a taste of what comes next …. I will interview Robin next about HIS journey to a belief in cosmic redemption which will be a nice postscript to this episode. I might ask him which of these earlier journeys he most identifies with in his theological journey.

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