Best The Henry Center For Theological Understanding Podcasts (2025)

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What Does John Tell Us about Idolatry | Steve Bryan 1:08:09

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Lecture Title - Reading John Among Rivals, Old and New The Gospel of John cuts across the grain of secular culture in much the same way as it entered into the ancient world—as a text that sets out a striking claim about the presence of the invisible God in the material world. We understand what John is and who it was for by considering how the Gosp…

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What Does Luke Tell Us About Hospitality | Jeannine Brown 56:44

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Lecture Title - Narrative Theologizing in the Gospels: Luke and Hospitality It often seems easier and more obvious to go to New Testament letters for theology than to the Gospels. Yet the Gospel writers are themselves “theologizing” in light of the arrival of the Messiah, and they offer rich theological stories for interpretation and preaching. A c…

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Should We Pray for Healing | Interviewing Todd Billings Part 1 29:43

4M ago29:43

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Discussion Topic - Healing and Resurrection HopePraying for healing is a controversial topic because it is difficult to know how to pray for someone with an incurable illness. Should "incurable" even be part of a Christian vocabulary? What does it mean to pray with someone rather than pray for someone? What theological assumptions undergird the way…

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Should We Pray for Healing | Interviewing Todd Billings Part 2 18:27

4M ago18:27

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Discussion Topic - Healing and Resurrection HopeResurrection hope is often muted in churches today as cultural forces of the modern West deny the reality and potency of death. What does genuine resurrection hope entail? Cancer patient J. Todd Billings and Taylor Worley recognize the tendency to equate hope with healing and prolonging life as long a…

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How to Ward off Despair | D. A. Carson 1:12:11

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Lecture Title - A Firm Foundation: Six Pillars of Faith in the Midst of Suffering and DeathWithout exception, human beings come face to face with suffering and evil. We may entertain only the vaguest and most cliché-driven grasp of such matters until we ourselves suffer, or until we ourselves recognize the sheer malignity of evil in ourselves or ot…

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How Does the Incarnation Integrate Science & Theology | Kevin Vanhoozer 1:00:31

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Lecture Title - T. F. Torrance’s Kataphysical Poetics: How the Incarnation Relates Science to TheologyFor T.F. Torrance, theological and scientific inquiry stand or fall together. Whereas Western scientists and theologians, ancient and modern, too often depend on universal methods and criteria, Torrance’s fundamental axiom is to think everything, f…

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What Are the Emotions of God | John Piper 49:22

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Lecture Title - The Glory of God and the Gladness of Man: Essential Affections in Edwards and the Life of the Church"Edwards probed the affections and religious experience with an intensity unique to the eighteenth century and perhaps the centuries since," McClymond and McDermott tell us in their book on Edwards' theology (2011). The upshot of that…

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What Is the Joy of All Joys | John Piper 36:03

5M ago36:03

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[An archived sermon from Trinity College chapel] Sermon Title - What is the Joy of all Joys?Do you feel more loved by God when he makes much of you or when at great cost to himself frees you to enjoy making much of him forever? Thinking and preaching through this question has been one of Dr. John Piper's life passions. Yet it is a question that is …

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How Should Christians View Religious Diversity | Harold Netland 12:31

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Discussion Topic - Religious Pluralism and Christianity A fuller discussion of this issue is available in an essay written by Dr. Harold Netland, which is available for free online at: www.christoncampuscci.org Until the modern era, Christians largely took it for granted that Christianity is the one true religion for all humankind. By the late twen…

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What does Mark Tell Us About Suffering | Elizabeth Shively 1:02:04

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Lecture Title - Embracing the Cross: Scriptural Patterns and the Challenge of Discipleship in Mark In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus calls his followers to embark on a transformative journey marked by suffering and self-sacrificial service, with the promise of a glorious future beyond immediate perception. This journey is central to the concept of disci…

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Intercultural Perspectives on Ministry Among Emerging Adults | Alcántara, Bell Profit, & Roh 1:06:19

6M ago1:06:19

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Intercultural perspectives on emerging adulthood bring important depth and texture to any and all conversations about emerging adulthood. Each panelist in our intercultural perspectives panel share fresh stories and significant experiences drawn from their time working in non-white, immigrant, and diaspora ministry settings. By sharing their storie…

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What Is the Dream Church | Interviewing Greg Waybright Part 2 46:08

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[Discussion/interview date: March 26th 2009] The Center was pleased to welcome Trinity's former president back to campus. Dr. Waybright addressed the subject of ecclesiology through consideration of two passages in Ephesians. His talks are entitled "The Dream Church". His first sermon covered Ephesians 1:3-14 and is entitled "God's Idea--Not Mine",…

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What Is the Dream Church | Interviewing Greg Waybright Part I 41:39

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[Discussion/interview date: March 24th 2009] Discussion Topic - What is the Dream Church?The Center was pleased to welcome Trinity's former president back to campus. Dr. Waybright addressed the subject of ecclesiology through consideration of two passages in Ephesians. His talks are entitled "The Dream Church". His first sermon covered Ephesians 1:…

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How Do We Live with Heartache | Carolyn Gordon 28:00

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Sermon Title - "I Hope You Dance": A Sermon on Lamentations 3Dr. Carolyn Gordon muses about how we survive “the next day,” that is the day after the day we never wanted to live through, when we wake up after a broken relationship, jobless, or bereft. She narrates Jeremiah’s story. His call from God was to prophesy from a life full of hardship and t…

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How Are Racial Relations in the U.S. | Emerson, Sanders, and Hong [Parts 1-3] 56:24

6M ago56:24

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Discussion Title - Race in the US: The State of Race Relations [Parts 1-3] ---Henry Center archive audio--- (Dr. Peter Cha is currently Professor of Church, Culture and Society at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.) Peter Cha, Associate Professor of Pastoral Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, hosts a Henry Center dialogue with Micha…

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What Is the Ministry of Reconciliation | A Panel with Cha, Netland, & Reynolds 59:43

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Discussion Topic - Church and Reconciliation: State of the IssueDoctrine and doctrinal issues are not merely aloof ideas that flit about within the closed precincts of academic institutions, but the living reality of the people of God located within local neighborhoods, neighborhoods replete with all layers of broken relationships. Positively, chur…

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How Does God Reconcile : And Calls Us--Yes, Us--to Follow | Gregory Waybright 40:45

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Sermon Title - God and Sinners Reconciled: And Calls Us--Yes, Us--to Follow (Mark 8:34-38, 10:17-31)Greg Waybright continues his two-part series (part 1) on God and reconciliation in the gospel of Mark. He expounds Christ’s call to radical discipleship in Mark 8:34-38, and describes the path we can walk down alongside our eternal brothers and siste…

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How Does God Reconcile : He Enters In | Gregory Waybright 39:09

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Sermon Title - God and Sinners Reconciled: He Enters In (Mark 7:24-30)Dr. Greg Waybright turns to an unlikely passage as he begins his first of two (part II) messages on God and Reconcilation. Expounding Mark 7:24-30, the story of the Syrophoenecian woman, Waybright draws out the ways that Jesus entered in to the lives of the disenfranchised, the s…

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How Is Personhood Political | Anthony Bradley 47:06

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Lecture Title: Lost in Policy? The Person Beyond Public and Social UtilityContemporary Christian debates about public policy tend to rely on simply reading one’s preferred political views into Scripture. Often lost in the conversation, are the very people themselves. Drawing on resources from the tradition of Christian social thought, Bradley will …

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Why Should We Reconcile | Ralph West 37:15

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Sermon Title - Looking Up and Looking Out: A Theology of ReconciliationThere is something about the verticality of life. Whether telephone poles or sky scrapers. But we don’t simply look up; we also look out. There is also something horizontal. In our embodied existence, we see the two dimensions. Even on the cross, there is a vertical and a horizo…

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How to Be Useful to God | Interviewing Alistair Begg 45:25

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Post-Lecture Interview with the Speaker Lecture Title - Inadequacy: The Surprising Secret to Being Useful to God The NBA champions this year was a team made up of fewer stars and less glitz than their opponents. We might say that humility triumphed over hubris. There are lessons-a-plenty in this for an evangelical church that routinely produces all…

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Debating Social Justice & Mission | Albert Mohler & Jim Wallis 2:03:56

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Debate Question - Is Social Justice an Essential Part of the Mission of the Church?North American Evangelicals have recently experienced a revival of interest in issues of social justice. The growing sentiment among many today is that Jesus preached "good news to the poor," and was indeed among the poor and marginalized. These Christians believe th…

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What Does Jesus Tell Us about Friendship | Jonathan Pennington 59:04

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Lecture Title - A Kingdom of Friends: Matthew’s Vision for the “We” of Discipleship Matthew’s Gospel presents a profound and nuanced vision of what it means to flourish as humans through becoming disciples of King Jesus. Flourishing in the kingdom of heaven requires a proper relationship to God, to other believers, and to the world outside of the c…

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Debating Justification & Liberation | Douglas Campbell & Douglas Moo 1:48:08

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Debate Question: Is the Lutheran Approach to Pauline Justification "Justified"? Martin Luther and other reformers viewed Pauline justification as primarily, if not exclusively, a forensic matter between us and God. We are justified before God, through faith in Jesus Christ, according to his finished work on the cross. If one believes the gospel mes…

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How Do We Finish Well | Bryan Loritts 33:42

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Sermon Title - Finishing Well (1 Cor. 9:24-27)Bryan Loritts comes from a long legacy of faithful men and women extending from his great, great grandfather Peter, an illiterate slave who loved the Word, to his father, Dr. Crawford Loritts. He celebrates this legacy in his sermon on 1 Corinthians 9:24-27. In this passage, Paul urges his readers to ru…

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How Is the Gospel Multi-Ethnic | Bryan Loritts 31:23

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Sermon Title - The Multi-Ethnic Church (Eph. 2:11-22) In a sermon on Ephesians 2:11-22, Brian Loritts makes a passionate appeal to Bible believing Christians to note the Gospel's vertical and horizontal dimensions. The Gospel addresses both reconciliation between God and sinners and reconciliation of all peoples in Christ. Loritts laments the fact …

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How Is the Mind Renewed | Interviewing Dallas Willard 49:10

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Lecture Title - Transformed by the Renewing of the Mind: The Use of Scripture in "Spiritual Formation" The Apostle Paul tells us to "not be conformed to the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind" (Rom. 12:2). But how are we to go about renewing our mind? We will explain the role of scripture in the renewing of the mind, and the rol…

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How Is the Mind Renewed | Dallas Willard 1:00:49

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Lecture Title - Transformed by the Renewing of the Mind: The Use of Scripture in "Spiritual Formation" The Apostle Paul tells us to "not be conformed to the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind" (Rom. 12:2). But how are we to go about renewing our mind? We will explain the role of scripture in the renewing of the mind, and the rol…

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Why Should We Forgive | Ralph West 32:16

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Sermon Title - Gracing & Disgracing Grace: Forgiveness and Reconciliation Preaching on Jesus’ famous parable of forgiveness (Matthew 18), Rev. Ralph West warns us against Disgracing Grace, in a manner similar to the Unforgiving Servant. This doesn’t mean that forgiveness is easy. It wasn’t easy for Jesus, and it isn’t easy for us. Whenever evil is …

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How Does Christ Satisfy Us Fully | Henri Blocher 24:22

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Sermon Title - The Final Christ In John 4:7-14 and 6:27-40, Jesus uses the universal symbols of bread and water to draw people to himself, awakening in them a sense of their deeper hunger and thirst. He is the greater Jacob and the greater Moses, offering people the living water and bread of life - eternal life - that will satisfy them forever with…

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How Is Salvation Possible | Henri Blocher 58:17

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2015 Kantzer Lecture #6 - Possibility and SalvationIn the final lecture Blocher concludes by accounting for the place of possibility in God’s response to the intrusion of evil, contending that the truth about evil can only be known through God’s response of salvation. Blocher maintains that in the biblical portrait that evil is an intruder, precedi…

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Was Evil Always Possible | Henri Blocher 1:01:16

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2015 Kantzer Lecture #5 - Was Evil "Possible" Before it Arose?The fifth lecture explores the question of whether evil was possible before it arose, either ontologically or logically, as related to God and to humanity. Accordingly to Blocher, evil is neither ontologically nor logically possible with God. That God who is sovereign should permit decre…

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What Does the Bible Say about Possibility | Henri Blocher 1:00:04

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2015 Kantzer Lecture #4 - "Possibility" in Biblical PerspectiveBlocher’s fourth of six lectures is an attempt to discern through Scripture the contours of possibility. Blocher first analyzes possibility with respect to God. He argues that Scripture associates various notions of possibility with God. For example, things can be possible without actua…

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What Is Possibility | Henri Blocher 58:52

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015 Kantzer Lecture #3 - Thinkers on "Possibility"Whereas in the first of his Kantzer lectures, Blocher introduced the function of possibility in explanation of evil in the thought of many important theologians and philosophers, in this his third lecture, he considers various philosophers’ concept of possibility itself. After Leibniz, Blocher argue…

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What Is Evil | Henri Blocher 1:06:17

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2015 Kantzer Lecture #2 - Exploring the Quasi-Concept and the Area of EvilContinuing his analysis of the idea of evil, lecture two provides some “impressionistic” starting points to the idea of evil, before giving an analysis of Leibniz’s threefold articulation of evil as metaphysical, physical, and moral. We often apply the idea of evil in at leas…

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Why Is Evil Possible | Henri Blocher 1:07:33

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2015 Kantzer Lecture #1 - Introduction: Evil Possible—A Misleading FacilityAt the outset of his 2015 Kantzer Lectures, Henri Blocher recognizes three central questions that arise from the fact of evil: Whence does evil come? What is evil? How long, O Lord? Blocher admits there is legitimacy of the human search for a rational explanation of the evil…

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When Can We Experience Intimacy with God | Nicholas Wolterstorff 1:00:32

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2013 Kantzer Lecture #8 - The Understanding of God Implicit in the EucharistIn the final Kantzer lecture of the series, Nicholas Wolterstorff turns to conclude his exploration by unpacking the theological implications of the Eucharist for his project. Noting that this is not the place to adjudicate between competing understandings of the act, Wolte…

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How Does God Respond | Nicholas Wolterstorff 1:05:18

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2013 Kantzer Lecture #7 - God as One Who SpeaksHaving completed his exploration of God as one who listens, Wolterstorff now turns to the understanding of God implicit in the belief that God is one who speaks. He begins by pointing out that in a good many of our liturgical acts we are listening to what God says by way of what humans say. Wolterstorf…

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When Does God Hear Favorably | Nicholas Wolterstorff 56:39

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2013 Kantzer Lecture #6 - God as One Who Hears FavorablyWolterstorff begins his sixth lecture by unpacking the understanding of God implicit in the liturgical act of requesting that God would hear our addresses favorably. What view of God is implied by the participant’s refrain, “Hear our prayer oh Lord”? After surveying the possible moods or stanc…

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How Does God Listen to Us | Nicholas Wolterstorff 1:02:32

9M ago1:02:32

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2013 Kantzer Lecture #5 - What Are We Saying When We Say that God Listens?Wolterstorff responds to questions raised by portraying God as the God who listens and speaks. After responding to potential objections that “listening” and “speaking” are anthropomorphisms not properly predicted upon God, he proposes an alternative reading of Thomas Aquinas …

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What Is Healthy Discipleship | Kelly Kapic 1:27:46

9M ago1:27:46

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Lecture Title - Go Therefore and Make Humans: Discipleship in an Inhumane World We live in a frenetic age of unrealistic expectations, fostered by unrelenting voices both outside and inside of us. Through subtle and not so subtle forces we are constantly expected to do more and be more. Exhaustion, shame, and anxiety pervade, and all too often they…

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When Does God Listen to Us | Nicholas Wolterstorff 47:51

10M ago47:51

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2013 Kantzer Lecture #4 - God as Listener Wolterstorff breaks new theological ground by considering the reality that God is a listener. Employing the concepts of speech-act theory and an analogy of social structure, he distills what making such a predicate of God entails. Often people are in alienated relationships, which in some way prevent them f…

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Why Do We Speak to God | Nicholas Wolterstorff 52:02

10M ago52:02

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2013 Kantzer Lecture #3 - God as One Who Listens and SpeaksIn his third lecture, Wolterstorff considers the understanding of God implicit in some of the fundamental types of Christian liturgy. He submits that the address of God is the most common type of action that occurs in the enactment of Christian liturgy. In addressing someone. In the act of …

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Why Is God Worthy of Worship | Nicholas Wolterstorff 52:45

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2013 Kantzer Lecture #2 - God as Worthy of WorshipIn the second lecture, Wolterstorff explicates what he calls the implicit understanding of God within the Christian liturgy as a whole (or as it accords with the convergence of the five traditions he is considering), the third and highest level of implicitness (see lecture 1). The highest level of i…

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How Should God Be Worshipped | Nicholas Wolterstorff 58:00

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2013 Kantzer Lecture #1 - The God We Worship: A Liturgical TheologyIn this first Kantzer lecture, Nicholas Wolterstorff provides the overarching structure to his liturgical project. Using as his main interlocutors liturgical theologians Schmemann and von Allmen, and working at the convergence of Orthodox, Episcopal, Catholic, Lutheran, and Reformed…

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How to Be Useful to God | Alistair Begg 53:16

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Lecture Title: Inadequacy: The Surprising Secret to Being Useful to God In this lecture, Alistair Begg considers God's pattern of using unlikely and ordinary characters and addresses the possibility that what we regard as a hindrance may be the key to usefulness in God's service. Alistair Begg (DDiv Westminster Theological Seminary) is Senior Pasto…

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How Is God Free | Bruce McCormack 1:31:12

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2011 Kantzer Lecture #7 - The Being of God as Gift and Grace: On Freedom and Necessity, Aseity and the Divine AttributesIn his seventh and final lecture, Professor McCormack concludes with a treatment of God’s being and attributes. Of particular interest is his notion of Freedom. Freedom, he suggests, is not freedom in the face of options. Rather, …

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How Does the Trinity Act in the World | Bruce McCormack 45:18

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2011 Kantzer Lecture #6 - The Processions Contain the Missions: Reconstructing the Doctrine of anImmanent TrinityIn this sixth lecture, Professor McCormack develops his doctrine of the immanent trinity by grounding his conclusions in the teaching of the New Testament as expounded in the fourth lecture, and in line with the Christology he constructe…

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What Should We Think about Christ | Bruce McCormack 1:29:51

10M ago1:29:51

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2011 Kantzer Lecture #5 - Which Christology? Refining the Economic Basis of the Christian Doctrine of GodIn this fifth Lecture, Professor McCormack begins the constructive work of his project. His goal is to develop a thoroughly post-metaphysical doctrine of God. For McCormack, this means that everything said about God must be founded on what can b…

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What Does the New Testament Say about God | Bruce McCormack 1:38:53

10M ago1:38:53

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2011 Kantzer Lecture #4 - The God Who Reveals Himself: The Mystery of the Trinity in the New TestamentIn the fourth lecture, Professor McCormack provides dense exegesis of the relevant biblical material regarding the problem of the trinity in the New Testament. This pertains in particular to the biblical witness to deity of the Son, His relationshi…

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