We’re closing out 2010 in a big way by continuing the Christology series with Douglas Ottati. Professor Ottati is the Craig Family Distinguished Professor in Reformed Theology and Justice Ministry at Davidson College in North Carolina. In conversation with the reformed tradition, he takes a mediating position between pure repetition and repudiation of the past that will help us all negotiate our own faith in today’s world.
Recent books include Theology for Liberal Presbyterians and Other Endangered Species, Reforming Protestantism: Christian Commitment in Today’s World, and Hopeful Realism: Recovering the Poetry of Theology. The first volume of his systematic theology, tentatively titled A Theology for Liberal Protestants, will be available sometime next year.
We have a guest host this week for our intro…our newest deacon, St. Nick.
Music this episode is Ben Bowen King’s “Will the Circle be Unbroken” from the album, “The Shepherd’s Story,” available on iTunes.
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in ways that inspire ecological concern. Three areas she sees ecology and Christology intersecting are the ministry of Jesus, the belief in the incarnation, and Christ’s death and resurrection. Great stuff.
In my sermon this week, I decided to revise the famous “Footprints in the Sand” poem to reflect Matthew 6:24 about serving two masters. Here it goes:
This is just a podtastic conversation between Tripp and Dr. John Thatamanil, a discussion about how Thatamanil’s cultural background has informed his Christian theology. This podcast episode gives a glimpse of what one might come up with weaving strands of Alfred North Whitehead/process, the thought of Paul Tillich, and a bit of hindu tradition into a thoroughly Christian theology. He and Tripp explore the implications for religious pluralism, nondualism, and an emerging polydoxy stemming from his work.
