Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 284: Beverly Gaventa
Aug 31 2026 |
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Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 284: Beverly Gaventa
Aug 31 2026 • 01:02:29
I always think I know what Romans is about, and then I reread Romans. I don’t fault the Reformed for fixating on the formulas that confirm Calvin, a...
Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 283: Chelsea Yarborough
Aug 24 2026 • 00:56:03
In the sixteenth century, Desiderius Erasmus revolutionized homiletics by bringing the insights of Ciceronian and later humanist rhetoric to bear on p...
Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 282: Volker Leppin
Aug 10 2026 • 00:58:28
Talk to an American Protestant about her spiritual life, and you’re as likely as not to hear about reading a printed Bible, usually in solitude, for t...
Christian Humanist Profiles 281: Sean Keilen
Aug 03 2026 • 01:04:29
For Americans, in the twenty-first century, the first association between Shakespeare and schools is obvious: we read Shakespeare in school. Whether ...
Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 280: Ian Hunter
Jul 27 2026 • 01:09:10
I first learned about Pierre Hadot in a John Milbank book, and ever since I’ve read everything of his that I could get my hands on. Hadot’s revolutio...
Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 279: Philip Ziegler
Jul 20 2026 • 01:10:05
I’ve spent a fair bit of my professional life among devils. Dante’s gigantic Satan never was much of a talker, but Marlowe’s Mephistopheles and Goeth...
Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 278: Charles E. Moore
Jan 26 2026 • 01:03:05
I’ve never been in the same room as Stanley Hauerwas, but he’s been part of my life for thirty years. One of his graduate students taught me philosop...
Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 277: David Zahl
Jan 19 2026 • 01:04:31
The New Testament book of Revelation is light on scenes of battle but never hesitates to announce that God has won a battle. Whether the text implies...
Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 276: Gabriel Said Reynolds
Jan 12 2026 • 01:02:11
Stories of spiritual origins often begin as the new way emerges against the dominant traditions of the region. Thus Siddhartha grows up among the Bra...
Christian Humanist Profiles 275: Nick Sorensen
Jul 28 2025 • 01:02:29
When teachers complain about the ways that schools evaluate our teaching–and we do so with frequency and enthusiasm–one of the common refrains has to...
