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S2E8: Exploration

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This week, Benjamin and Ryker chart out the theology of exploration, discovering how the unknown frontier can be holy ground.


Show Notes (The Theology of Exploration) S2:E8


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Table of Contents & Timestamps:

(0:00-2:02) Introduction

(2:02-8:57) What is Exploration?

(9:27-28:30) “Exploring” the Bible

(28:52-31:55) God’s Playground

(31:55-34:50) The Open Book of Nature

(34:50-38:14) The Journey of the Christian Faith

(38:35-40:29) Adventuring in the Wrong Places

(40:29-45:25)  A Whole New World...

(45:25-49:01) Outro


Key Takeaways:

  • Exploration is an open-ended journey into the unknown
  • The mundane parts of our lives are charged with with untapped exploratory potential
  • Exploration is a key theme in the Bible, either as a good, Edenic adventure or a bad, Exilic wandering
  • Knowing God is like exploring uncharted territory on a map
  • The New Heavens and New Earth will be an entirely new world for us to explore
  • Outward exploration leads to inward exploration; foreign exploration leads to domestic exploration

    • Resources:

    • “Revisiting the Theology of Exploration in Times of Disorder” by Stephen D. Perry

      • https://providencemag.com/2020/09/revisiting-theology-space-exploration-times-disorder/


      • “Christians Ought to Be the World’s Greatest Explorers” by Justin Buzzard

        • https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/christians-ought-to-be-the-worlds-greatest-explorers/


        • “A Biblical Theology of the Wilderness” by Nicholas T. Batzig

          • https://feedingonchrist.org/biblical-theology-wilderness/


          • “On Chasing One’s Hat” GK Chesterton

            • http://essays.quotidiana.org/chesterton/running_after_ones_hat/


            • The Faith of Leap: Embracing A Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage by Michael Hirsch

              • https://www.amazon.com/Faith-Leap-Embracing-Adventure-Shapevine/dp/0801014158


              • Fine Lines Documentary

                • https://www.amazon.com/Fine-Lines-Conrad-Anker/dp/B081ZXN8RV


                Music

                “Buzz Cut” - Luke Hall

                “Begin Again” - Luke Hall

                “Flute and Piano” - Luke Hall


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