Christopher Southgate: Suffering, Trauma, and the Glory of God
is a biochemist turned influential theologian...who just happens to be a well published poet. (). Southgate is a in the UK and part of the 'God and the Book of Nature' project I am working on. Since recording this interview I have had the...
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Show Notes
Dr. Christopher Southgate is a biochemist turned influential theologian...who just happens to be a well published poet. (Read this powerful one... when it is safe to cry). Southgate is a Professor at Exeter University in the UK and part of the 'God and the Book of Nature' project I am working on. Since recording this interview I have had the chance to spend time with him and am enthusiastic to introduce him to many of you.
In this conversation we discuss...
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- The changing shape of the religion and science conversation
- how has the scientific study of religion itself shaped a scientifically engaged theology from a particular tradition
- the problem of evil and suffering in nature
- the free will defense in the face of natural evil
- the "lazy default in Christian thinking"
- Irenaeus wasn't Irenaean?
- the Christian need to recover immanence
- what is divine glory?
- the Biblical protest of God and the need for its presence in worship
- "humankind cannot bear much of reality"
- theologizing with Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotics
- trauma and the community of faith
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