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JD Lyonhart (PhD, Cambridge) is a British-Canadian theologian, philosopher, author, and ordained minister, as well as an advocate for the Learning Disabled and Neurodiverse. He is an Associate Professor of Christianity and Philosophy at the University of Jamestown, a Fellow at the Cambridge Center for the Study of Platonism at Cambridge University, and a co-host of the Spiritually Incorrect Podcast (spirituallyincorrectpodcast.com). He is the author of Space God: Rejudging a Debate between More, Newton, and Einstein (Cascade, 2023) and MonoThreeism: An Absurdly Arrogant Attempt to Answer All the Problems of the Last 2000 Years in One Night at a Pub (Cascade, 2021).

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MonoThreeism book: https://wipfandstock.com/9781725262683/monothreeism/

Space God book: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666757040/space-god/

Jonathan’s website: https://www.jdlyonhart.com/

The Spiritually Incorrect Podcast:

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Amy Hawk is the author of Six Years in the Hanoi Hilton: An Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in Vietnam. She lives in Oregon with her husband and their tiny Yorkie. They have two young adult children. Connect with Amy at www.amyhawk.com.

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- The Judas Effect: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666763645/the-judas-effect/

- Amy’s personal website: https://www.amyhawk.com/

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Andrew Remington Rillera is assistant professor of biblical studies and theology at The King’s University in Edmonton, Alberta, in Canada. He is the author of the new Cascade book, Lamb of the Free: Recovering the Varied Sacrificial Understandings of Jesus’s Death.

***This will be our last episode before The Theology Mill goes on break for summer 2024. We will pick back up in the fall.***

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Lamb of the Free: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666703047/lamb-of-the-free/

Andrew’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndrewRillera

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Sean J. McGrath has published widely in the history of ideas and the philosophy of religion. He is a professor of philosophy at Memorial University of Newfoundland and an adjunct professor of religious studies at McGill University.

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- Political Eschatology: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666738094/political-eschatology/

- Prof. McGrath’s faculty page: https://www.mun.ca/philosophy/people/dr-sean-mcgrath/

- Prof. McGrath’s academia.edu page: https://mun.academia.edu/SeanMcGrath

- Prof. McGrath’s podcast (Secular Christ): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnFyIaY7p0KzRfoJOQ6H3uWrMuHsYrlZD,

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The Universalism Booth is a series of interviews on Christian universalism, exploring several different angles from which the theological position is taken up. The interviewees range widely in their approaches to universalism, represented roughly as evangelical, existential, and Catholic.

Jordan Daniel Wood earned his PhD in historical theology from Boston College in 2019 and published a book with University of Notre Dame Press, The Whole Mystery of Christ: Creation as Incarnation in Maximus Confessor (2022). He was just recently appointed as Assistant Professor of Theology at Belmont University, to begin August 2024, but spent the past three years as a stay-at home dad of four.

* For more universalism content, see our two-part series on the topic with David Artman:

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- Part 2:

PODCAST LINKS:

- The Whole Mystery of Christ: https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268203474/the-whole-mystery-of-christ/

- “George MacDonald against Hans Urs von Balthasar on Universal Salvation”: https://afkimel.wordpress.com/2020/04/26/george-macdonald-against-hans-urs-von-balthasar-on-universal-salvation/

- “The Remarkable Unity of Rhetoric and Dialectic in ‘That All Shall Be Saved’”: https://afkimel.wordpress.com/2020/02/23/the-remarkable-unity-of-rhetoric-and-dialectic-in-david-harts-that-all-shall-be-saved/

- Words in Flesh (Jordan’s Substack): https://jordandanielwood.substack.com/

- Jordan’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/JordanW41069857

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The Universalism Booth is a series of interviews on Christian universalism, exploring several different angles from which the theological position is taken up. The interviewees range widely in their approaches to universalism, represented roughly as evangelical, existential, and patristic.

David W. Congdon is Senior Editor at the University Press of Kansas, where he acquires in the fields of politics, law, religion, US history, and Indigenous studies. He is also an instructor at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary. He is the author of several books, including most recently Varieties of Christian Universalism: Exploring Four Views (Baker, 2023) and Who Is a True Christian? Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture (Cambridge, 2024).

* For more universalism content, see also our two-part series on the topic with David Artman:

- Part 1:

- Part 2:

PODCAST LINKS:

- Varieties of Christian Universalism: https://bakeracademic.com/p/Varieties-of-Christian-Universalism-David-W-Congdon/516433

- The God Who Saves: https://wipfandstock.com/9781608998272/the-god-who-saves/

- Who Is a True Christian?: https://www.amazon.com/Who-True-Christian-Contesting-Religious/dp/1009428993/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3EA3L6K4NC2S0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Ur5fEENDr-Fff4CiIOUxOyH7hQ6i95-uA_lS2qE8OvA.vnwQqu15XEFFvvWxgYt3VgqGI_R04mF3mbSOwodZK5A&dib_tag=se&keywords=david+congdon+who+is+a+true+christian&qid=1711485912&sprefix=who+is+a+true+christian%2Caps%2C167&sr=8-1

- Rudolf Bultmann: A Companion to His Theology: https://wipfandstock.com/9781625647481/rudolf-bultmann/

- Dr. Congdon’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwcongdon

- Dr. Congdon’s website: https://www.dwcongdon.com/

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The Universalism Booth is a series of interviews on Christian universalism, exploring several different angles from which the theological position is taken up. The interviewees range widely in their approaches to universalism, represented roughly as evangelical, existential, and Catholic.  

Robin A. Parry is an Anglican priest in the diocese of Worcester, UK, and an editor for Wipf and Stock Publishers. He is the author of The Evangelical Universalist (Cascade, 2006, 2012), under the pseudonym Gregory MacDonald, and various other works on Christian universalism.

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The Christian Universalism Booth: https://wipfandstock.com/blog/2024/03/19/the-christian-universalism-booth/

The Evangelical Universalist:

A Larger Hope, Vol. 2: https://wipfandstock.com/9781498200400/a-larger-hope-volume-2/

Varieties of Christian Universalism: https://bakeracademic.com/p/Varieties-of-Christian-Universalism-David-W-Congdon/516433

Four Views on Hell: https://zondervanacademic.com/products/four-views-on-hell1

T&T Clark Handbook of Election: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/tt-clark-handbook-of-election-9780567683380/

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Douglas A. Campbell is a professor of New Testament at Duke Divinity School. He has published six books on Paul including The Deliverance of God (2009), Paul: An Apostle's Journey (2018), and Pauline Dogmatics (2020). He co-directs two prison engagement programs at Duke.

Jon DePue is a graduate of Duke Divinity School and has served churches as director of Christian education for several years. He currently works as a learning community support specialist for Indianapolis Public Schools.

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Beyond Justification: https://wipfandstock.com/9781532678981/beyond-justification/

Dr. Campbell’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProfDCampbell

Jon’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/HereApocalypse

Jon’s Apocalypse Here YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/apocalypsehere

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Dr. L. Ann Jervis is the author of Paul and Time: Life in the Temporality of Christ. Dr. Jervis is emerita professor of New Testament at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto, in Toronto, Canada. She is a member of the Centre for Ethics at Trinity College, University of Toronto, and a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton, New Jersey. She is also a priest in the Anglican Church of Canada.

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Paul and Time: https://bakeracademic.com/p/paul-and-time-l-ann-jervis/516454

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SOURCES MENTIONED:

Jervis, L. Ann. Paul and Time: Life in the Temporality of Christ.

Martyn, J. Louis. Galatians.

Wright, N. T. The Climax of the Covenant: Christ and the Law in Pauline Theology.

———. Paul and the Faithfulness of God.

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Steven E. Knepper is Associate Professor of English and the Bruce C. Gottwald, Jr. ’81 Chair for Academic Excellence at the Virginia Military Institute. He is the author of Wonder Strikes: Approaching Aesthetics and Literature with William Desmond (SUNY, 2022), the editor of A Heart of Flesh: William Desmond and the Bible (Cascade, 2023), and the co-author, with Robert Wyllie and Ethan Stoneman, of Byung-Chul Han: A Critical Introduction (Polity, forthcoming 2024).

Ryan G. Duns, SJ, is Associate Professor of Theology at Marquette University. He is the author of Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age: Desmond’s Quest for God (Notre Dame, 2020) and the forthcoming Theology of Horror: The Hidden Depths of Popular Films (Notre Dame, 2024).

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A Heart of Flesh: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666738452/a-heart-of-flesh/

Fr. Ryan’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/RyanDunsSJ

Steve’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/StevenEKnepper

Fr. Ryan’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/DunsSj

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SOURCES MENTIONED:

Bespaloff, Rachel. “On the Iliad.”

Desmond, William. Desire, Dialectic, and Otherness: An Essay on Origins.

———. Godsends: From Default Atheism to the Surprise of Revelation.

———. The William Desmond Reader.

Duns, Ryan G., SJ. Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age: Desmond and the Quest for God.

Knepper, Steven E. Byung-Chul Han: A Critical Introduction.

———. Wonder Strikes: Approaching Aesthetics and Literature with William Desmond.

———, ed. A Heart of Flesh: William Desmond and the Bible.

Taylor, Charles. A Secular Age.

———. Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity.

Weil, Simone. “The Iliad, or the Poem of Force.”

OUTLINE:

(01:53) – Discovering William Desmond

(05:12) – Fr. Ryan’s roundtable: Desmond, Levertov, Murdoch, Rahner

(07:27) – Steve’s roundtable: Desmond, Marcel, Bespaloff, Chrétien

(11:31) – Describing William Desmond

(19:40) – Between metaphysics and phenomenology

(28:17) – The four senses of being

(35:47) – “A heart of flesh”

(39:30) – Reading Scripture metaxologically

(45:41) – Reading 1 and 2 Samuel with Desmond

(50:47) – Reading Jesus’ parables with Desmond

(55:43) – What’s next for Fr. Ryan

(57:51) – What’s next for Steve

(59:52) – Where to find Fr. Ryan and Steve