The Theology Mill – Détails, épisodes et analyse

Laurie M. Johnson is professor of political science at Kansas State University and president of The Maurin Academy (https://pmaurin.org). Most of her work has involved developing an understanding and critique of classical liberal theory and includes works on Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Tocqueville. Her recent book, Ideological Possession and the Rise of the New Right (2019), sets the stage for her newest book, The Gap in God’s Country (Cascade, 2024), with broader implications for what we can do to address our problems.

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- The Gap in God’s Country (book): https://wipfandstock.com/9781666737400/the-gap-in-gods-country/

- YouTube series on the book: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsLkfggTCOx-GdsauHvp0dmqOKq8f4jsB

- Laurie’s website: https://lauriemjohnson.com/

- Maurin Academy: https://pmaurin.org/

- Maurin Academy Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/maurinacademy

- Political Philosophy podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@ljpolitical-philosophy

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OUTLINE:

(02:49) – Meet Laurie

(05:08) – Roundtable: Jesus, Socrates, Karl Marx

(07:12) – Laurie’s political journey

(16:00) – Classical conservatism

(20:25) – US conservatives: right-leaning liberals?   

(27:23) – Political instability today

(29:36) – Marxian critiques of capitalism

(34:58) – Transformations in the Democratic Party

(35:43) – Jacques Ellul and “technique” today

(44:14) – The Catholic Worker movement  

(50:17) – Mass psychosis/ideological possession

(01:00:23) – Direct action

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John H. Buchanan received a doctorate in liberal arts from Emory University. He was trained and certified as a Holotropic Breathwork practitioner by Stan and Christina Grof. He is a contributing coeditor for Rethinking Consciousness (2020) and the author of Processing Reality: Finding Meaning in Death, Psychedelics, and Sobriety (Cascade, 2022).

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- Processing Reality (book): https://wipfandstock.com/9781666709285/processing-reality/

- John’s website: https://www.processingreality.com/

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OUTLINE:

(01:22) – Introduction

(05:56) – Roundtable: Olaf Stapledon, C. S. Lewis, Colin Wilson

(10:27) – Psychedelics: intersection of psychology, philosophy, religion

(16:30) – First experiences with mind-altering agents

(20:11) – Answering criticisms of psychedelics

(24:35) – Altered states: drug-induced vs. breath-induced

(31:42) – Stan Grof’s transpersonal psychology

(36:50) – Whitehead’s process philosophy

(43:34) – Grof and Whitehead in conversation

(48:50) – “Prehension”

(54:32) – Prehension and non-ordinary states

(57:43) – What’s next for John

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Andrew M. Davis is program director for the Center for Process Studies. He is author, editor, and coeditor of several books including Mind, Value, and Cosmos (2020), Metaphysics of Exo-Life (2023), and From Force to Persuasion (Cascade, 2024).

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- From Force to Persuasion (book): https://wipfandstock.com/9781666784428/from-force-to-persuasion/

- Whitehead and Teilhard (book): https://tinyurl.com/2s3vxb5p

- How I Found God in Everyone and Everywhere (book): https://tinyurl.com/27nk7ck2

- Perspectives in Process Studies (book series): https://wipfandstock.com/search-results/?series=perspectives-in-process-studies-series

- Center for Process Studies: https://ctr4process.org/

- Andrew’s website: https://www.andrewmdavis.info/

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Colby Dickinson is professor of theology at Loyola University, Chicago. He is the author of Haunted Words, Haunted Selves: Listening to Otherness within Western Thought (Cascade, 2024), Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer Series: A Critical Introduction and Guide (2022), Theological Poverty in Continental Philosophy: After Christian Theology (2021), Theology as Autobiography: The Centrality of Confession, Relationship, and Prayer to the Life of Faith (Cascade, 2020), and The Fetish of Theology: The Challenge of the Fetish-Object to Modernity (2020).

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Haunted Words, Haunted Selves book: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666769210/haunted-words-haunted-selves/

Theology as Autobiography book: https://wipfandstock.com/9781532688829/theology-as-autobiography/

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JD Lyonhart (PhD, Cambridge) is a British-Canadian theologian, philosopher, author, and ordained minister, as well as an advocate for the Learning Disabled and Neurodiverse. He is an Associate Professor of Christianity and Philosophy at the University of Jamestown, a Fellow at the Cambridge Center for the Study of Platonism at Cambridge University, and a co-host of the Spiritually Incorrect Podcast (spirituallyincorrectpodcast.com). He is the author of Space God: Rejudging a Debate between More, Newton, and Einstein (Cascade, 2023) and MonoThreeism: An Absurdly Arrogant Attempt to Answer All the Problems of the Last 2000 Years in One Night at a Pub (Cascade, 2021).

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MonoThreeism book: https://wipfandstock.com/9781725262683/monothreeism/

Space God book: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666757040/space-god/

Jonathan’s website: https://www.jdlyonhart.com/

The Spiritually Incorrect Podcast: https://www.spirituallyincorrectpodcast.com/

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Amy Hawk is the author of Six Years in the Hanoi Hilton: An Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in Vietnam. She lives in Oregon with her husband and their tiny Yorkie. They have two young adult children. Connect with Amy at www.amyhawk.com.

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- The Judas Effect: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666763645/the-judas-effect/

- Amy’s personal website: https://www.amyhawk.com/

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Andrew Remington Rillera is assistant professor of biblical studies and theology at The King’s University in Edmonton, Alberta, in Canada. He is the author of the new Cascade book, Lamb of the Free: Recovering the Varied Sacrificial Understandings of Jesus’s Death.

***This will be our last episode before The Theology Mill goes on break for summer 2024. We will pick back up in the fall.***

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Lamb of the Free: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666703047/lamb-of-the-free/

Andrew’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/AndrewRillera

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Sean J. McGrath has published widely in the history of ideas and the philosophy of religion. He is a professor of philosophy at Memorial University of Newfoundland and an adjunct professor of religious studies at McGill University.

PODCAST LINKS:

- Political Eschatology: https://wipfandstock.com/9781666738094/political-eschatology/

- Prof. McGrath’s faculty page: https://www.mun.ca/philosophy/people/dr-sean-mcgrath/

- Prof. McGrath’s academia.edu page: https://mun.academia.edu/SeanMcGrath

- Prof. McGrath’s podcast (Secular Christ): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnFyIaY7p0KzRfoJOQ6H3uWrMuHsYrlZD, https://open.spotify.com/show/5T9c8fwTB2xyBh4khKLetY

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The Universalism Booth is a series of interviews on Christian universalism, exploring several different angles from which the theological position is taken up. The interviewees range widely in their approaches to universalism, represented roughly as evangelical, existential, and Catholic.

Jordan Daniel Wood earned his PhD in historical theology from Boston College in 2019 and published a book with University of Notre Dame Press, The Whole Mystery of Christ: Creation as Incarnation in Maximus Confessor (2022). He was just recently appointed as Assistant Professor of Theology at Belmont University, to begin August 2024, but spent the past three years as a stay-at home dad of four.

* For more universalism content, see our two-part series on the topic with David Artman:

- Part 1: https://wipfandstock.com/blog/2023/07/11/david-artman-christian-universalism-pt-1/

- Part 2: https://wipfandstock.com/blog/2023/07/25/david-artman-christian-universalism-pt-2/

PODCAST LINKS:

- The Whole Mystery of Christ: https://undpress.nd.edu/9780268203474/the-whole-mystery-of-christ/

- “George MacDonald against Hans Urs von Balthasar on Universal Salvation”: https://afkimel.wordpress.com/2020/04/26/george-macdonald-against-hans-urs-von-balthasar-on-universal-salvation/

- “The Remarkable Unity of Rhetoric and Dialectic in ‘That All Shall Be Saved’”: https://afkimel.wordpress.com/2020/02/23/the-remarkable-unity-of-rhetoric-and-dialectic-in-david-harts-that-all-shall-be-saved/

- Words in Flesh (Jordan’s Substack): https://jordandanielwood.substack.com/

- Jordan’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/JordanW41069857

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The Universalism Booth is a series of interviews on Christian universalism, exploring several different angles from which the theological position is taken up. The interviewees range widely in their approaches to universalism, represented roughly as evangelical, existential, and patristic.

David W. Congdon is Senior Editor at the University Press of Kansas, where he acquires in the fields of politics, law, religion, US history, and Indigenous studies. He is also an instructor at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary. He is the author of several books, including most recently Varieties of Christian Universalism: Exploring Four Views (Baker, 2023) and Who Is a True Christian? Contesting Religious Identity in American Culture (Cambridge, 2024).

* For more universalism content, see also our two-part series on the topic with David Artman:

- Part 1: https://wipfandstock.com/blog/2023/07/11/david-artman-christian-universalism-pt-1/

- Part 2: https://wipfandstock.com/blog/2023/07/25/david-artman-christian-universalism-pt-2/

PODCAST LINKS:

- Varieties of Christian Universalism: https://bakeracademic.com/p/Varieties-of-Christian-Universalism-David-W-Congdon/516433

- The God Who Saves: https://wipfandstock.com/9781608998272/the-god-who-saves/

- Who Is a True Christian?: https://www.amazon.com/Who-True-Christian-Contesting-Religious/dp/1009428993/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3EA3L6K4NC2S0&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.Ur5fEENDr-Fff4CiIOUxOyH7hQ6i95-uA_lS2qE8OvA.vnwQqu15XEFFvvWxgYt3VgqGI_R04mF3mbSOwodZK5A&dib_tag=se&keywords=david+congdon+who+is+a+true+christian&qid=1711485912&sprefix=who+is+a+true+christian%2Caps%2C167&sr=8-1

- Rudolf Bultmann: A Companion to His Theology: https://wipfandstock.com/9781625647481/rudolf-bultmann/

- Dr. Congdon’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/dwcongdon

- Dr. Congdon’s website: https://www.dwcongdon.com/

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*The Theology Mill and Wipf and Stock Publishers would like to thank Luca Di Alessandro for making their song “A Celestial Keyboard” available for use as the podcast’s transition music. Link to license: https://pixabay.com/service/license-summary/.