Today’s episode is a lovely chat with our very interesting and talented friends Erin Kidd, Assistant Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at St. John’s University (Queens, NY), and Jakob Karl Rinderknecht, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Pastoral Institute at University of the Incarnate Word (San Antonio, TX). After a lively discussion of Erin’s most recent culinary catastrophes and the wild/wonderful Riverwest neighborhood of Milwaukee, we learn about Erin and Jakob’s new edited volume: Putting God on the Map: Theology and Conceptual Mapping (Fortress Press, 2018). The volume is an interdisciplinary work in theology and cognitive science, and our conversation covers the basics of cognitive linguistics and conceptual mapping. We also introduce the wide-ranging implications of their intersections and applications in theological discourse. Jon shares his Treasures Old & New, and then we say goodbye.

Erin and Jakob are very generously offering our listeners a 30% discount on Putting God on the Map! Enter promotional code LEX30AUTH18 when you checkout at https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781978703964/Putting-God-on-the-Map-Theology-and-Conceptual-Mapping

TITLES NAMED IN MAIN SEGMENT

Johnson, Elizabeth. She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse. 10th Anniversary Edition. New York: Crossroad, 2002.

Jong, Jonathan, Christopher Kavanagh, and Aku Visala. “Born Idolaters: The Limits of the Philosophical Implications of the Cognitive Science of Religion.” Neue Zeitschrift für Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie 57, no. 2 (2015): 244–66.

Kidd, Erin. “The Subject of Conceptual Mapping: Theological Anthropology across Brain, Body, and World.” Open Theology 4, no. 1 (2018): 117–35.

Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Lakoff, George, and Mark Johnson. Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and Its Challenge to Western Thought. New York: Basic Books, 1999.

Masson, Robert. Without Metaphor, No Saving God: Theology after Cognitive Linguistics. Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2014.

Ricoeur, Paul. Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1976.

Ricoeur, Paul. The Rule of Metaphor: Multi-Disciplinary Studies in the Creation of Meaning in Language. Translated by Robert Czerny with Kathleen McLaughlin and John Costello. London: Routledge, 1978.

Rinderknecht, Jakob Karl. Mapping the Differentiated Consensus of the Joint Declaration. New York: Palgrave, 2016.

“TREASURES OLD AND NEW”

Schleiermacher, Friedrich. Christian Faith (Two-Volume Set): A New Translation and Critical Edition. Translated by Terrence N. Tice, Catherine L. Kelsey, and Edwina Lawler. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2016.

Our theme music is “14 Ghosts II” by Nine Inch Nails, available at https://archive.org/details/nineinchnails_ghosts_I_IV

“14 Ghosts II” is used under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike license. We would like to thank Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails for the use of this track.

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