The Catacombic Machine

David and Josef talks to Russell Re Manning about Paul Tillich. Russell is a philosopher of religion with wide-ranging research and teaching interests in modern and contemporary philosophy and theology.

In this episode, David and Joel speak with dr. Walter Brueggemann. The conversation deals with many issues, but is centered around questions of hermeneutics, especially in relation to the Christian Bible.

If you like what you hear, be sure to check out dr. Brueggemann's resources online here, for instance, and/or be sure to order one of his many books.

Josef talks to Austin Roberts about Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Religion, which is a forthcoming volume by Bloomsbury, edited by LeRon Shults and Lindsay Powell-Jones. This episode is part two of our series which will feature a number of the book's contributors, part one with LeRon was published a few weeks ago.

Last week we published an article by Austin which is related to the conversation in this episode: Chaosmic Process Theology | Deleuze and Whitehead

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In this episode David talks to Gladys Ganiel about her book The Deconstructed Church. Gladys is Research Fellow in the Institute for the Study of Conflict Transformation and Social Justice (ISCTSJ) at Queen’s University Belfast. She works in the disciplines of sociology and politics and her main areas of research are the Northern Ireland conflict, evangelicalism, Christianity in Ireland, the emerging church, and charismatic Christianity in Zimbabwe and South Africa.

David talks to John (Jack) D Caputo who is the Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus at Syracuse University and the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Villanova University about his two latest books Hoping Against Hope and The Folly of God.  They talk about how Paul Tillich has influenced the work of Jack, deconstruction, Radical Theology, plasticity, hospitality and the Augustinian question, who it is that Jack says he loves when he loves his God.

David and Josef talks to Peter Rollins about God talk and the notion of "lack" in Pete's work.

Josef talks to LeRon Shults about the forthcoming book Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Religion, which will be published by Bloomsbury in September.

This volume brings together some of the leading voices in the field of Deleuze studies and religion, discussing what a schizoanalysis of religion might be and introduce a variety of ways in which it might be practiced. The authors do not all agree on the extent to which Deleuze and Guattari's schizoanalysis project is antithetical to “religion.” However, they do share an enthusiasm for the exploring the ways in which it can contribute to such topics as political theology, liberation theology, Christian doctrine, and spirituality more generally, without losing sight of the important role atheism has to play in Deleuze's broader work.

David and Joel talk to Dr Marika Rose about her work. Marika is Research Fellow in the Department of Theology and Religion and Research Fellow of St John's College. Her research focuses on discussions within continental philosophy about the relationship between Christian apophatic thought (particularly that of Dionysius the Areopagite) and contemporary philosophies of difference, otherness and incompletion.

This is part two of our conversation with Richard Kearney. Included in this episode is also a post-game analysis by David and Josef.

David and Josef talks to Richard Kearney about anatheism and his new book Reimagining The Sacred. Richard is the Charles Seelig professor of philosophy at Boston College and has taught at many universities including University College Dublin, the Sorbonne, and the University of Nice.