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"Our Father, who is in heaven..." These words and the rest of the Lord's Prayer are so familiar. They remind us to seek God, draw us into communal prayer with the church, and bring comfort. However, while we repeat words we cherish, sometimes this familiarity becomes distance. In this episode, co-host Amy Hughes talks with Dr. Justo González about his new book Teach Us To Pray: The Lord’s Prayer in the Early Church and Today (Eerdmans, 2020). Let us come to the Lord's Prayer anew, without fear and with new understanding.  The post Justo González – Prayer in the Early Church and Today first appeared on OnScript.

Chris Green is on the show to talk about how God is not saving us from interpretation, but through it - a process that can be "soul harrowing and purgative." Chris talks about problematic and more helpful models of Scripture and its interpretation, his appreciation for George MacDonald, approaches to troublesome texts, and we even have a brief poetry reading from the poetry collection Bigly. All these things and more await you in this one jam-packed episode on the second edition of his Sanctifying Interpretation. The post Chris Green – Sanctifying Interpretation first appeared on OnScript.

Episode: Erin Heim and Dru Johnson discuss part II of Erin’s paper “Resurrection and the #MeToo Movement,” which is part of a larger project that Erin is working on as […] The post Erin Heim – Resurrection and the #metoo movement (part II) first appeared on OnScript.

How is memory made and maintained in a community? Moreover, how can a community remember something they never witnessed? A. J. Culp walks us through recent turns in memory theory to explore how Deuteronomy, as a piece of literature, instantiates and reifies memory in Israel. We address misconceptions of memory as individualistic, how literature can form memory, and the use of memory for social identity. For Christians and Jews, the implications for their tradition's rituals and sacraments are manifest. The post A.J. Culp – Memoir of Moses first appeared on OnScript.

Episode: Unusually for OnScript, we held a debate. Or perhaps it is better called a friendly chat between two scholars who disagree. On what? On the question of divine simplicity […] The post R. T. Mullins & Steven Nemes Debate Divine Simplicity first appeared on OnScript.

Episode: We're back with our fourth annual live-recorded podcast episode at Nashotah House Theological Seminary! Dr. Jeannine Brown joined us this year to discuss her book The Gospels as Stories(Baker Academic, 2020). Tune in for conversation about the importance of narrative thinking, intertextuality, and women among the disciples, and for a very special speed round.  The post Jeannine Brown – The Gospels as Stories first appeared on OnScript.

Episode: When you read a passage in Scripture or hear about someone’s experience with the supernatural (be it angelic, demonic, etc), what is your instinct? Explain it using specific hermeneutical tools? How? Do […] The post Esther Acolatse – Powers, Principalities, and the Spirit first appeared on OnScript.

R. Alan Streett, author of Caesar and the Sacrament, explores baptism's dual role as a spiritual and political act. He discusses how early Christians viewed baptism as a pledge of loyalty against Roman authority. The conversation delves into the symbolic importance of the Holy Spirit's descent in Jesus’ baptism and its implications for kingship. They also tackle the significance of personal commitment in baptism, how it shapes discipleship, and the rich theological reflections that arose from first-century practices.

Episode: How does Jesus’s death rescue not only humanity from its shame, but save God’s face? The honor-shame framework changes how we think about the gospel, faith, sin, and glory. […] The post Jackson W. – Reading Romans with Eastern Eyes first appeared on OnScript.

Episode: In a previous episode Chris Tilling and Matt Bates interviewed two of the co-authors (Barber and Pitre) of the book, Paul, A New Covenant Jew. The third co-author of this book, John Kincaid, […] The post John Kincaid – Justification and Divine Sonship in Paul first appeared on OnScript.