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Theology and literature have always seemed a natural pair to me. In fact, I’ve written a Master’s Thesis examining Ezekiel with the help of William Blake; another digging into Christology through Aemelia Lanier and John Milton; and a doctoral dissertation arguing that Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton were making moves in theological ethics that the theological academy only caught up to in the late twentieth century. So when I found out that Dr. Shaun Ross had a book for me to read about the Eucharist and seventeenth-century English poets, I knew I was going to be talking to my kind of thinker. Shaun’s recent book The Eucharist, Poetics, and Secularization from Oxford University Press poses some really great questions about some really great poems, and Christian Humanist Profiles is really glad to welcome him to the show.
David Grubbs interviews Matt Jenson about his recent book "Theology in the Democracy of the Dead."
Nathan Gilmour talks with Dan Koch of the You Have Permission podcast about his recent project "End Times Anxiety."
My own tradition within the Church was an early adopter of the motto “No creed but Christ.” For what intentions are worth, my forerunners...
