Theology Nerd Throwdown
Dr. Tripp Fuller & Rev. Bo Sanders · Dr. Tripp Fuller | Theologian, Philosopher, Minister
Show overview
Theology Nerd Throwdown has been publishing since 2013, and across the 13 years since has built a catalogue of 215 episodes. That works out to roughly 290 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a monthly cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 1h 2m and 1h 41m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. Roughly 60% of episodes carry an explicit flag from the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Religion & Spirituality show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 weeks ago, with 30 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2014, with 35 episodes published. Published by Dr. Tripp Fuller | Theologian, Philosopher, Minister.
From the publisher
Tripp & Bo get nerdy talking about theology, faith, life, and other things.
Latest Episodes
View all 215 episodesIt's always darkest just before it goes pitch black
The Misplaced Concreteness of a Single Outcome + the God-Podcalypse
What If We're Still in the Early Church? A TNT on Whether Religion Gets to Evolve
A Baptized Neighbor-Neglecting Device
Three Books and a Meme: on Brin, Gleick, Baudrillard, Debord, & The Contraction of the Present
We've Engineered a World with Nothing to Say and a Listener with No Ears
Performing for the Digital Slave Master: Bo Sanders's Strava Confession and the Hell of the Same
Puff, Puff, Passages: Bo and Tripp on the Bible, the Ban List, and the Books We Would Take to a Desert Island
The Angel of History, the End of History, and the End of the Liberal Subject
America Was a Mirage: Kevin Carnahan on Why the Moral 1940s–1980s Was an Accident
If an AI Says It Loves God, How Would You Test It?
Over/Unders, Mount Rushmores, and Shooting Fish in Barrel
I'm Unsinkable. I'm Already Dead: A TNT on Doubt, Faith, and the Galilean Vision
The Pope, the Plantation, and the Algorithm: A Theology Nerds Throwdown
They Love Your Questions — Just Not Your Conclusions: Tim Whitaker on Evangelicalism, Apologetics & the Sleight of Hand
If This Is the End Times, I'll Be Your Huckleberry: Peter Thiel's Antichrist Theology
The Hyperlink Permission: How Dispensational Eschatology Reads the Bible & Why It Gets Wild
Big Nephilim Energy: A Field Guide
Just War for People Who Actually Know What It Means w/ Kevin Carnahan
The Consequences, Not the Mechanism: What the Resurrection Narratives Are Actually About
It's Holy Week, which means Bo and I finally stopped talking about chickens, bikes, and CCM songs long enough to do theology — though we did all of those things first. The actual idea Bo had was simple and turned out to be genuinely illuminating: what if we worked our way backwards through the passion week narrative, starting with the post-resurrection appearances on Monday and moving back toward Good Friday? The theory being that if you start at the end and let the consequences of the resurrection interpret everything before it, you read the whole story differently. Turns out, yes, you do. We talked about the fact that no gospel actually describes the resurrection happening — only its effects, only its consequences — and how much Christian energy gets wasted on the mechanism when the texts are entirely uninterested in that question. Tripp's seven implications for Holy Week came fast and hot: the cross as mirror of what civilization does to nonviolent love, PSA as the theological theory with the least observable consequences in people's actual lives, and why loving your enemies isn't a vibe but the specific thing that got Jesus killed. Then Bo discovered Holy Saturday via Balthasar and hasn't recovered — the silent day as a womb of restrained fullness, Jesus as the one who has gone further into death than any of us will ever go, double dead, so that nothing we face is faced alone. Pete Rollins on the experience of absence versus the absence of experience made an appearance. Bonhoeffer made his inevitable appearance. Elgin Frank Tupper closed it out: the resurrection isn't verified by the empty tomb, it's verified by the harvest — when all things are raised into the life of God. We'll be back next week for Nephilim. Happy Easter. You can WATCH the conversation on YouTube Join 600+ Listeners, 30 theologians, & 30 God-Pods at Theology Beer Camp 2026 this October 8-10 in Kansas City! UPCOMING ONLINE CLASS - Theology for Troublemakers: Christian Social Ethics from the Margins The injustices we face are immense — but they are not unique. Previous generations confronted the same powers with theological conviction and strategic brilliance. The question is whether we'll learn from them. This 6-week online course, led by Dr. Gary Dorrien and Dr. Aaron Stauffer, recovers the radical tradition of Christian social ethics — from Reverdy Ransom and Reinhold Niebuhr to James Cone and the Welfare Rights Movement — and asks what faithfulness demands of us right now. Weekly lectures, live Q&A conversations, guest lecturers, and an online community included. 💰 Donation-based — including $0 🔗 Sign up at HomebrewedClasses.com This podcast is a Homebrewed Christianity production. Follow the Homebrewed Christianity, Theology Nerd Throwdown, & The Rise of Bonhoeffer podcasts for more theological goodness for your earbuds. Join over 75,000 other people by joining our Substack - Process This! Get instant access to over 50 classes at www.TheologyClass.com Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices