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Profano Theology with Barry Taylor!

June 4, 2012 by Tripp Fuller 4 Comments

Deacons I am thrilled to let you all in to a live HBC house-show & yard party with your favorite British PoMo theological and cultural super star Barry Taylor (check him on the podcast, with Peter Rollins on the Apostle Paul and at Theology After Google). The show is almost an hour and a half of interactive theology, inappropriate religious jokes, guitar strumming, Pop Culture commentary, & curse word Bingo (Barry will explain…I hear lay people at his church invented it).  If you can’t imagine course language and thick sarcasm being use for something fruitful then please don’t listen.  Pete Rollins may have his Pyro-theology but we got Profane Theology.  This was recorded September 30, 2011.

Come See Barry Taylor with us live July 5th

 

We discuss Scot McKnight’s King Jesus Gospel, Peter Rollins, Mark Driscoll’s Thug Jesus excitement, reality TV (and Christianity), Phyllis Tickle, Mel Gibson’s love of the Jewish people, the Passion of the Christ, Rob Bell, Love Wins, Rick Warren, Shane Hipps, techno-noise, AC/DC, the Star Wars religion, changing religious data, skulls, and trash art.

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 Dr. Barry Taylor is the Associate Rector at All Saints’ Episcopal Church in Beverly Hills, California. He also teaches theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary, where he is the Artist-in-Residence for the Brehm Center, and he teaches advertising and design at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, topics that were part of his theological doctoral study program. He writes and plays music, usually with friends, occasionally for money – his songs have shown up in a few movies, and he has composed a couple of soundtracks for largely over-looked films. He has written a few books: A Matrix of Meaning with Craig Detweiler, A Heretic’s Guide to Eternity, with Spencer Burke, as well as his latest, Entertainment Theology.

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Travis Mamone
Travis Mamone 5pts

This has got to be one of the funniest HBC episodes ever!

 

Now about McKnight's book, I haven't read it yet, but I am familiar with his work. Judging by the video alone, I do think McKnight has a point. How did Jesus' radical message about the Kingdom of God turn into Driscoll's Thug Jesus bullshit? But on the other hand, I think Taylor has a point, too. We need to constantly be asking how to interpret the Gospel for our times, and not focus so much on returning to some Golden Age of Christianity.

 

Oh well, tequila!

drew_psu
drew_psu 5pts

 @Travis Mamone Hey Travis. Here's an odd story about me. I thought the same way. I wanted to reinvent a faith that fit more with my cultural and social awareness. What I never questioned was if I was being honest about myself and if what I wanted was the right thing. Driscoll is clearly after a specific interpretation of the Gospel from his point of view, flawed or not. Those questions ultimately lead me back to the roots of the church in Acts, but I didn't stop there. I went through the early church Fathers and Mothers and kept going. What I found amazing is how these people over and over again wrote essentially the same things about God even through many of them were totally isolated from one another. That lead me into Eastern Orthodoxy where I worship today. Pretty "golden age" stuff if you ask me. So I don't know. I think I'm more sensitive to the reality that everybody will have a version they think is the truth. I know what works for me and will work for me for a long time. Rather than judge Driscoll I'm just praying for him.

dangarvin
dangarvin 5pts

Thug Jesus: "He brings peace by CRUSHING his enemies". Huh?

 

So let me get this straight. Jesus tries all the kind and loving stuff. Asks us to do the same. This goes on for a while. Finally Jesus gets tired of all the kind and loving stuff and opens a can of whoop-ass on everybody who doesn't have their get-out-of-hell-free card paid up and in good working order.

 

Jesus. Purported to be the creator of the entire universe. The smartest man who ever lived. In the end is reduced to genocide as the last resort after all the kind, loving, salvation stuff proves ineffective.

 

Dude! Sign me up. And hey... can I get me one o' them mouth swords?

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