Christian Humanist Profiles 249: Lyric Theology with Thomas Gardner

October 16, 2023 00:57:45
Christian Humanist Profiles 249: Lyric Theology with Thomas Gardner
Christian Humanist Profiles
Christian Humanist Profiles 249: Lyric Theology with Thomas Gardner

Oct 16 2023 | 00:57:45

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Nathan P Gilmour

Show Notes

Genesis–Bereshith in the Hebrew–opens with grand narratives of beginnings and generations, and the New Testament starts with four distinctive narrative accounts of Jesus, the anointed one.  For traditions that consider theology an interpretive endeavor at the outset, then, stories are the start, and Psalms and hymns and prophetic verse follow close behind.  But somewhere along the line, the propositions and syllogisms and refutations and such that get their start as commentaries on the narrative and Psalmic and apocalyptic start to make demands of their own, and theology becomes even more a ground for contest than it seems to be in the texts that we call Bible.  Where does that leave us when it comes to theology?  Dr. Thomas Gardner’s book Lyric Theology calls us back to verse and narrative and on ahead into film, reminding us that it can’t hurt to come back home when it comes to theology.

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