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Some intellectuals are famous, and some are intellectual-famous. N.T. Wright appeared on The Colbert Report, and Reinhold Niebuhr testified before Congress, and Cornel West was in a couple Matrix movies. George Lindbeck didn’t do any of those, as far as I know, but in certain circles of Christian theologians, he’s indisputably intellectual-famous, opening up possibilities for ecumenical engagement and influencing Stanley Hauerwas and attending Vatican II and such. My own engagement with Lindbeck has been almost exclusively with his 1984 book The Nature of Doctrine, so when I got a chance to read Shaun C. Brown’s recent book George Lindbeck: A Biographical and Theological Introduction, I came away seeing his work in that book as a chapter in a rich and rightly intellectual-famous career. Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome the Doctor Reverend Brown to the show.
Michial Farmer interviews David Deavel and Jessica Hooten Wilson about their recent edited collection "Solzhenitsyn and American Culture."
I don’t often talk about my own high-school years on this podcast, but I remember in high-school jazz band playing a Christmas medley called...
David Grubbs interviews Philip Ryken about his new book, "The Messiah Comes to Middle Earth."
