The Theology Mill

THEMES: - religion and horror movies - the feeling of horror –horror vs. terror – the importance of the body in horror films – sociophobics – Dark Transcendent and Divine Transcendent

BIO: Ryan G. Duns, SJ, is an associate professor of theologyat Marquette University. In addition to many articles and book chapters, he is the author of Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age: Desmond and the Quest for God (2020) and Theology of Horror: The Hidden Depths of Popular Films (2024).

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- Theology of Horror (book): https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268208554/theology-of-horror/

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THEMES: - charges brought against the early Christians – the apologists’ main lines of defense - the apologists and “apologetics” – the historicity and truthfulness of Christian faith – Greek philosophy and Christian faith – the apologists on the Roman Empire

BIO:

Alvyn Pettersen is Canon Theologian Emeritus of Worcester Cathedral, UK, and an Honorary Chaplain at The University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford. He has written widely in the field of patristics, being the author of Athanasius and the Human Body (1990); the volume on Athanasius (1995) in the series, Outstanding Christian Thinkers; and the Cascade Companion, The Second-Century Apologists (2020).

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- The Second-Century Apologists (book): https://wipfandstock.com/9781725265356/the-second-century-apologists/

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THEMES: - the blessed & the lost/damned - infernalism, annihilationism, & universalism - heavenly grief - moral sanctification

BIO:

Eric Reitan is professor of philosophy at Oklahoma State University. He is the author of Is God a Delusion? A Reply to Religion’s Cultured Despisers (2009), The Triumph of Love: Same-Sex Marriage and the Christian Love Ethic (2017), and the novel So Eden Sank to Grief (2024). He is co-author (with John Kronen) of God’s Final Victory: A Comparative Philosophical Case for Universalism (2011).

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- Troubled Paradise (book): https://wipfandstock.com/9781666765335/troubled-paradise/

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Ronald E. Heine is Professor Emeritus of Bible and Theology at Northwest Christian University in Eugene, Oregon. He is the author of several books on early Christian authors and subjects and translator of many of Origen’s exegetical and homiletical works.

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- Origen Cascade Companion (book): https://wipfandstock.com/9781498288958/origen/

- The Philocalia of Origen (annotated, hardcover book): https://tinyurl.com/34bh59cz

- The Philocalia of Origen (paperback version): https://tinyurl.com/3skassh8

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Nimi Wariboko is the Walter G. Muelder Professor of Social Ethics at Boston University and the author of The Pentecostal Hypothesis: Christ Talks, They Decide (Cascade, 2020).

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- The Pentecostal Hypothesis (book): https://wipfandstock.com/9781725254510/the-pentecostal-hypothesis/

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Jacob Marques-Rollison is currently co-president of the International Jacques Ellul Society (IJES). Among his publications on the life and work of Jacques Ellul are A New Reading of Jacques Ellul: Presence and Communication in the Postmodern World (2020) and an English translation of Ellul's two-volume ethical treatise To Will & To Do. He and his wife are on staff at L’Abri Fellowship in Huémoz, Switzerland.

PODCAST LINKS:

- Jacques Ellul (Cascade Companion book): https://wipfandstock.com/9781625649140/jacques-ellul/

- International Jacques Ellul Society: https://ellul.org/

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Philip John Paul Gonzales is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Mary’s Seminary & University, Baltimore. He is author of Reimagining the Analogia Entis: The Future of Erich Przywara’s Christian Vision and editor of Exorcising Philosophical Modernity: Cyril O’Regan and Christian Discourse after Modernity, and co-editor of Finitude's Wounded Praise: Responses to Jean-Louis Chrétien.

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- Finitude’s Wounded Praise (book): https://wipfandstock.com/9781666710489/finitudes-wounded-praise/

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Paul R. Hinlicky is Tise Professor emeritus at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. He is author of numerous articles and books, including the Cascade Companion on Lutheran Theology (2020), Luther for Evangelicals (2018), Luther and the Beloved Community (2010), and a systematic theology, Beloved Community (2015). He is Distinguished Professor on the graduate faculty of Christ Seminary, Institute of Lutheran Theology.

PODCAST LINKS:

- Lutheran Theology (book): https://wipfandstock.com/9781498234092/lutheran-theology/

- Reconstructions in Lutheran Doctrinal Theology (series): https://wipfandstock.com/search-results/?series=reconstructions-in-lutheran-doctrinal-theology

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Laurie M. Johnson is professor of political science at Kansas State University and president of The Maurin Academy (https://pmaurin.org). Most of her work has involved developing an understanding and critique of classical liberal theory and includes works on Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Tocqueville. Her recent book, Ideological Possession and the Rise of the New Right (2019), sets the stage for her newest book, The Gap in God’s Country (Cascade, 2024), with broader implications for what we can do to address our problems.

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- The Gap in God’s Country (book): https://wipfandstock.com/9781666737400/the-gap-in-gods-country/

- YouTube series on the book: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsLkfggTCOx-GdsauHvp0dmqOKq8f4jsB

- Laurie’s website: https://lauriemjohnson.com/

- Maurin Academy: https://pmaurin.org/

- Maurin Academy Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/maurinacademy

- Political Philosophy podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ljpolitical-philosophy

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OUTLINE:

(02:49) – Meet Laurie

(05:08) – Roundtable: Jesus, Socrates, Karl Marx

(07:12) – Laurie’s political journey

(16:00) – Classical conservatism

(20:25) – US conservatives: right-leaning liberals?   

(27:23) – Political instability today

(29:36) – Marxian critiques of capitalism

(34:58) – Transformations in the Democratic Party

(35:43) – Jacques Ellul and “technique” today

(44:14) – The Catholic Worker movement  

(50:17) – Mass psychosis/ideological possession

(01:00:23) – Direct action

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John H. Buchanan received a doctorate in liberal arts from Emory University. He was trained and certified as a Holotropic Breathwork practitioner by Stan and Christina Grof. He is a contributing coeditor for Rethinking Consciousness (2020) and the author of Processing Reality: Finding Meaning in Death, Psychedelics, and Sobriety (Cascade, 2022).

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- Processing Reality (book): https://wipfandstock.com/9781666709285/processing-reality/

- John’s website: https://www.processingreality.com/

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OUTLINE:

(01:22) – Introduction

(05:56) – Roundtable: Olaf Stapledon, C. S. Lewis, Colin Wilson

(10:27) – Psychedelics: intersection of psychology, philosophy, religion

(16:30) – First experiences with mind-altering agents

(20:11) – Answering criticisms of psychedelics

(24:35) – Altered states: drug-induced vs. breath-induced

(31:42) – Stan Grof’s transpersonal psychology

(36:50) – Whitehead’s process philosophy

(43:34) – Grof and Whitehead in conversation

(48:50) – “Prehension”

(54:32) – Prehension and non-ordinary states

(57:43) – What’s next for John

*The Theology Mill and Wipf and Stock Publishers would like to thank Luca Di Alessandro for making their song “A Celestial Keyboard” available for use as the podcast’s transition music. Link to license: https://pixabay.com/service/license-summary/.