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Get Pumped for the party - an apocalyptic #ProcessParty!!

This episode is a party with two of my favorite theologians! Catherine Keller and Jacob Erickson are here to bring the zest to the people.

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PREVIOUS EPISODES WITH JAKE OR CATHERINE

Jacob Erickson: a Theopoetics of the Earth Theological Possibilities with Catherine Keller Catherine Keller: God-ish?:Logos of Theos in a (Seriously) Uncertain Time Catherine Keller on Cloud of the Impossible Catherine Keller on Process, Poetry, & Post-Structuralism [Barrel Aged] Theology for the People: Keller, Cobb and God The Birth of God and a new JC – part 2 Keller AAR Keller-riffic + Caputo Tells Pete the “lack” is BS Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community.

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James F. McGrath is Clarence L. Goodwin Chair in New Testament Language and Literature. His PhD from the University of Durham became the basis for his first book, John’s Apologetic Christology, published by Cambridge University Press in the SNTS Monograph Series. He has also written a “prequel” about the broader context of monotheism and Christology in ancient Judaism and Christianity, The Only True God: Early Christian Monotheism in Its Jewish Context, published by University of Illinois Press. More recently he has published What Jesus Learned from Women which explores the topic of the historical figure of Jesus and the influence the women mentioned in the Gospels had on him.

In addition to his work on the New Testament and early Christianity, Dr. McGrath also researches the Mandaeans (the last surviving Gnostic group from the ancient world) and their literature. The two-volume critical edition, translation, and commentary on the Mandaean Book of John (which he produced together with Charles Haberl of Rutgers University) represents the first such academic edition of the complete work in English based on all known manuscripts. Another area of specialty is the intersection of religion and science fiction. On that subject, he is the author of Theology and Science Fiction and The Battle of Ranskoor av Kolos (Black Archive #52), editor of Religion and Science Fiction and co-editor of Time and Relative Dimensions in Faith: Religion and Doctor Who. He blogs at

Rev. Dr. David Vásquez-Levy serves as President of Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California –a progressive, multidenominational seminary and center for social justice that prepares theologically and spiritually rooted leaders to work for the well-being of all.  A committed pastor, a nationally recognized immigration leader, and a sought after speaker, Vásquez-Levy leads at the intersection of faith, higher education, and social change. Vásquez-Levy regularly contributes a faith perspective to the national conversation on immigration and is the author of various publications that explore migration stories in sacred texts and in people’s lives. He has lived in four countries and taught courses and led international study and service trips across the globe, including a course in France entitled, “Immigration/Refugee Crisis, Religion, Globalization and the Post-Colonial Immersion” and a course in Guatemala entitled: “Guatemala: Roots of Migration”.

You can learn more about the Pacific School of Religion, its online and on-campus programs, and set up a time to talk to an admission team member here.

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It's time for another edition of live-streamed "Big God" questions with Tom Oord. This time we tackle a number of complaints and critiques of open and relational theology from twitter.

Tom also shares news about his new book Open and Relational Theology. Check it out.

We are both evangelists for Open and Relational Theology and now that it has a center you should check it out. Tom mentioned the launch of a new doctoral program in Open and Relational Theology. You can check it out here.

Thomas Jay Oord is a theologian, philosopher, and scholar of multi-disciplinary studies. Oord is an award-winning author, and he has written or edited more than twenty books. A twelve-time Faculty Award-winning professor, Oord teaches at institutions around the globe. A gifted speaker, Oord is known for his contributions to research on love, open and relational theology, science and religion, and the implications of freedom and relationships for transformation.

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Last night I had some live streaming fun with Diana Butler Bass. She is not only a brilliant scholar and communicator but a mentor and friend. In this conversation, we discuss her newest book, Freeing Jesus, and the way it is a culmination of a trajectory first set in Christianity After Religion. 

BTW you should sign up for her substack newsletter. It is awesome.

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Sociologist of Religion, Dr. Gerardo Marti, drops a powerful lecture that explores secularization in three parts - the statistics, the theory, and the history. This lecture and the ensuing conversation is the kickoff of an open online reading group. 

Dr. Gerardo Marti is a professor of Sociology at Davidson in North Carolina. His research centers around race, ethnicity, religion, identity, inequality, and social change. Through his research, he works to uncover the dynamics of contemporary issues like diversity, religious innovation, and political power.

Gerardo's previous visit to the podcast: a Sociologist on American Religion

Here’s a few of his books to check out:

American Blindspot: Race, Class, Religion, and the Trump Presidency

The Deconstructed Church: Understanding Emerging Christianity

The Glass Church: Robert H. Schuller, the Crystal Cathedral, and the Strain of Megachurch Ministry

Latino Protestants in America: Growing and Diverse

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Dr. Philip Goodchild is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Nottingham. I have read and enjoyed Philip’s work for years and am thrilled to have him on the podcast. In this conversation, we discuss how he understands the task of philosophy of religion and then explore a number of themes from his powerful and fully endorsed trilogy Credit and Faith. 

In this conversation we discuss…

 How does Deleuze see the task of the philosopher? 

How does the Continental Philosopher do Philosopher of Religion?

What inspires a theology of economics? 

Where does money come from? 

How is trust & faith at the heart of the economy and religion? 

How did the market generated secularization?

What should make of Continental Philosophy’s return to St. Paul?

How theology becomes ideology in congregations

Books From Dr. Goodchild

Credit and Faith

Economic Theology: Credit and Faith II

The Metaphysics of Trust: Credit and Faith III

The Future of Continental Philosophy of Religion

Difference in Philosophy of Religion

Religion and European Philosophy: Key Thinkers from Kant to Žižek

Deleuze and Guattari: An Introduction to the Politics of Desire 

Theology of Money (New Slant: Religion, Politics, Ontology)

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This is a special episode. Not only are there a bunch of impressive scholars participating, but it is from my digital trip to Vienna for a round table engaging my book Divine Self-Investment. I had a complete blast and was truly honored to have so many scholars take my text so seriously. Deeply grateful to Jason Alvis for the invitation and for putting together an engaging event.

In this roundtable, you will hear from

* Jason Alvis, University of Vienna

* Martin Koci, University of Vienna

* Katarina Koci, Institute for Human Studies, Vienna

* Jacob Deibl, University of Vienna

* Petra Carlsson, Stockholm School of Theology

* Dominik Gautier, University of Oldenburg

You can find info on the book here.

Bethany Sollereder is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Science and Religion at Oxford University and part of the “God and the Book of Nature’ project I am a part of. She specializes in theology concerning evolution and the problem of suffering and is currently working on the theological possibilities and human vocation in the light of irreversible changes in ecological degradation. She likes horses, Tolkien, Rothfuss, good coffee and fine wine. She lives in central Oxford, and enjoys the sounds of the church bells tolling the hours.

Here’s two of Bethany’s Books to checkout

God, Evolution, and Animal Suffering: Theodicy without a Fall 

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Why Is There Suffering?: Pick Your Own Theological Expedition

Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He is currently a Visiting Professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New School University, New York City. Earlier he taught economics at Yale University (1967-1969) and at the City College of the City University of New York (1969-1973). In 1994, he was a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Paris (France), I (Sorbonne). Wolff was also a regular lecturer at the Brecht Forum in New York City.

Professor Wolff's weekly show, Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff, is syndicated on over 70 radio stations nationwide and available for broadcast on Free Speech TV. Professor Wolff enjoys french cuisine and lives in New York City with his wife, Dr. Harriet Fraad. They have two adult children.

Over the last twenty-five years, in collaboration with his colleague, Stephen Resnick, he has developed a new approach to political economy. While it retains and systematically elaborates the Marxist notion of class as surplus labor, it rejects the economic determinism typical of most schools of economics and usually associated with Marxism as well. This new approach appears in several books co-authored by Resnick and Wolff and numerous articles by them separately and together. Common to all of Professor Wolff’s work are two central components. The first is the introduction of class, in its elaborated surplus labor definition, as a new "entry point" of social analysis. The second is the concept of overdetermination as the logic of an analytic project that is consistently non-determinist.

Want to sneak into Dr. Wolff's economics class? Then check out this amazing collection of his class lectures. Want to check out Dr. Wolff and his partners' collection of podcasts? Head over here. Books by Dr. Wolff The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself (2020) Understanding Socialism (2019) Understanding Marxism (2018) Capitalism's Crisis Deepens: Essays on the Global Economic Meltdown (2016) Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism (2012) Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism (2012) Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian (2012) Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It (2009) New Departures in Marxian Theory (2006) Economics: Marxian versus Neoclassical (1987)   Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community.

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