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Gary Habermas has spent a lifetime studying the resurrection of Jesus and asking: did Jesus truly rise from the dead? He just published volume two in a four-volume series on the resurrection published by Broadman & Holman. Dr. Habermas will deliver the fourth annual John Warwick Montgomery lecture in Evidential and Legal Apologetics at the Lanier Theological Library on Saturday, November 9, 2024. In this podcast, he joins David Capes to preview the lecture on the iconic campus. Join us for the lecture, either in person or online.
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This podcast is about 20 minutes in length.
Dr. Ingrid Faro is Professor of Old Testament at Northern Seminary in the western suburbs of Chicago. She was recently a Visiting Scholar at the Lanier Theological Library in Houston and sat down with David Capes to talk about her book, Demystifying Evil. Ingrid began her study of evil and suffering after an extensive period of trauma and abuse. Thus, her book is an intensely personal book as well as a biblical exploration. For those who wrestle with principalities and powers, those who have perpetuated their own evil, or those who have suffered as a result of sickness or a natural disaster, this is a book for you.
This is Dr. Faro’s second appearance on The Stone Chapel Podcast. To hear her first podcast with us, “Deconstructing Evil,” click here.
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This podcast is about 20 minutes in length.
Recently, Dr. James McGrath, professor of New Testament Literature at Butler University, made his first visit on The Stone Chapel Podcast. He and David Capes discussed his new book, Christmaker: A Life of John the Baptist (Eerdmans). The provocative title came to McGrath to describe the life and legacy of the Baptist.
McGrath shares with us his inclinations to write the book and some of the things he learned along the way. Many in the west have a hard time understanding how in certain circles John the Baptist was, and still is, more popular than Jesus of Nazareth. Still, the sources inside and outside the Bible reveal John to be a powerful and polarizing figure for his day. After writing the book, McGrath came to think; if we don’t pay attention to John the Baptist, we will find that we misunderstand Jesus.
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This podcast is about 20 minutes in length.
Dr. Michael Bird returns to The Stone Chapel Podcast to talk with David Capes about his recent book, co-authored with Tom Wright, entitled Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies.
Bird and Wright teamed up to write about politics, the kingdom of God, and theology in light of the polarized nature of western societies. They make a compelling case that followers of Jesus need actually to follow Jesus in his teachings about the kingdom of God as an antidote to the competitive and destructive nature of politics these days.
If you think Jesus had more to say about life than how to get to heaven when you die, this is a book you need to read and study. It will lead you deeper into Scripture.
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This podcast is about 20 minutes in length.
Constantine Campbell, professor and research director at the Sydney College of Divinity in Australia, joins David Capes on The Stone Chapel Podcast to talk about a new edition of a well-known book, Basics of Verbal Aspect in Biblical Greek (2nd edition, Zondervan Language Basics Series). He and David nerd out a little on the Greek, but they demonstrate how knowing verbal aspect—a universal feature of languages—pays off when reading Scripture.
Con, as his friends know him, is also an amazing jazz saxophonist. We include a snippet of one of his songs, “Lykabettus” from the album Athina, released in March 2024. The album’s site is here: https://kavos.hearnow.com/athina
For more about Con Campbell as a musician and scholar see his website: https://www.constantinecampbell.info/
For a transcript of this episode click here: https://churchleaders.com/podcast-episode/stone-chapel-verbal-aspect-biblical-greek-constantine-campbell
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This podcast is approximately 21 minutes in length.
Esau McCaulley (PhD, St. Andrews University) joins David Capes on the Stone Chapel Podcast to discuss his upcoming lecture at the Lanier Theological Library, October 12, 2024. His title is “The Gospels and the Anti-Slavery Movement.” Many scholars and critics of the Bible conclude that the proper reading of the Christian Scripture promotes slavery and is thus immoral. Indeed, the best cases made from the Bible during the anti-slavery movement were on the side of the slave owners and defenders. Esau McCaulley challenges that conclusion; he says the best readings of Scripture were on the side of the abolitionists. In this lecture McCaulley will show how the life and teachings of Jesus ultimately undermine one of humanity’s oldest and gravest sins.
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John Peckham returns to The Stone Chapel Podcast to discuss a new book, titled "Why We Pray: Understanding Prayer in the Context of Cosmic Conflict" (Baker Academic, 2024). Rather than conceiving of prayer as merely communication one to another, Peckham asks of us to put prayer within the context of what is and has been going on since creation; there is a conflict between God and the principalities and power. There are conflicts too between human beings and God. In particular, Peckham’s book tackles the thorny question of seemingly unanswered prayers.
Check out John’s earlier book, "The Theodicy of Love."
For a transcript of this episode click here: https://churchleaders.com/podcast-episode/stone-chapel-pray-john-peckham
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Dr. Amy Orr-Ewing is an international author, speaker, and influencer from near London. She will lecture at the Lanier Theological Library on the weekend of 20-22 September 2024. Her topic: “C. S. Lewis and the Problem of Pain.” In this podcast we provide a bit of apreview to that lecture. Click here for a description of that weekend’s lecture:
https://www.laniertheologicallibrary.org/event/september-21-2024-lecture-by-amy-orr-ewing/?event_date=2024-09-21
If you are interested in attending the lecture in person or on the Internet, please register as soon as possible. Jerry Root, Stephanie Derrick, Jahdiel Perez, and Mark Lanier will join us for the panel discussion.
For a transcript of this episode click here: https://churchleaders.com/podcast-episode/stone-chapel-c-s-lewis-pain-amy-orr-ewing
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In September 2024 the Lanier Theological Library in Houston will host the 2024 Earle Lectures in Biblical Studies for the Nazarene Theological Seminary (NTS) in Kansas City, Missouri. Dr. Michael Gorman, widely known for his work in hermeneutics, Paul, and John, will deliver the lectures which will be streamed all around the world and presented live to a special audience of about forty people. Dr. Gorman and Dr. Andy Johnson, Professor of New Testament at NTS, join Dr. David Capes on the Stone Chapel Podcasts to discuss the series, its significance, and summarize Dr. Gorman’s upcoming lectures at LTLHouston. To join the special, live audience in Houston email David.capes@lanierlibrary.org. Here’s the link to stream the lecture- 2024 Earle Lectures in Biblical Studies for the Nazarene Theological Seminary
For a transcript of this episode click here: https://churchleaders.com/podcast-episode/stone-chapel-paul-john-michael-gorman-andy-johnson
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World acclaimed mathematician and Christian scholar, John Lennox, returns to the Stone Chapel Podcast, this time to talk with David Capes about his recent book, Friend of God: The Inspiration of Abraham in an Age of Doubt (SPCK, 2024). Lennox writes about Abraham with passion and insight into the whole of Scripture. Abraham’s faith becomes the stuff of Paul’s argumentation regarding faith in Christ in Galatians and Romans. So, Abraham is an exemplar for faith and trust in all eras.
In his last podcast John talked with David Capes about Artificial Intelligence and the future of humanity. To hear that podcast click here.
You can read the transcript of this episode here: https://churchleaders.com/podcast-episode/stone-chapel-abraham-john-lennox
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Dr. Stanley Porter is a well-known New Testament scholar. He is also president and dean of McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario. He and Bryan Dyer, Baker Academic Books, co-authored a new book investigating the New Testament’s titles and traditions associated with Jesus. Stan joined David Capes on the Stone Chapel Podcasts to talk about their latest book, which offers a modified-titles approach to Christology.
You can read the transcript of this episode here: https://churchleaders.com/podcast-episode/stone-chapel-christology-stan-porter
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The First Nations Version is a new Bible translation created by and created for native Americans. The project director, Terry Wildman, joined David Capes on The Stone Chapel Podcast to talk about the impetus to the translation and to read selections.
You can read the transcript of this episode here: https://churchleaders.com/podcast-episode/stone-chapel-bible-first-nations-terry-wildman
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Interpreting the Bible begins with wrestling with the original context. In part that means understanding the genre of the literature (Gospel, history, letter, apocalypse, etc.) and the genres embedded in them (hymns, letters, confessions, preformed traditions, riddles, etc). Dr. Jeannine Brown, Professor of New Testament at Bethel Seminary (Minneapolis, MN), joins David Capes on the Stone Chapel Podcast to discuss how identifying genre helps to know the Bible better.
You can read the transcript of this episode here: https://churchleaders.com/podcast-episode/stone-chapel-genres-new-testament-jeannine-brown
Check out other podcasts on the ChurchLeaders Podcast Network. To listen to previous episodes of “The Stone Chapel Podcast” click here. For Jeannine Brown’s book: Embedded Genres in the New Testament: Understanding Their Impact for Interpretation.
In this episode of the Stone Chapel Podcast, David Capes talks with N. T. Wright about his book, Jesus and the Powers (Zondervan). Wright and his co-author, Michael Bird, are deeply concerned about the political polarization in cultures now across the globe. And they are more disturbed with how Christians are responding in the midst of it. Wright and Bird address these issues with wisdom and theological clarity.
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Episode 199 Rebirth 2.0 with Jonathan BrantJonathan Brant was recently at the Lanier Theological Library in Houston. While there, he delivered a great address. He stopped by and talked with David Capes on The Stone Chapel Podcasts.
Who is Jonathan Brant? Jonathan Brant has spent the last 20 years or so in and around Oxford. Prior to that he lived in London. After earning his PhD, he is today Dean of Research and Cultural Engagement at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University.
Before coming to Wycliffe, he traveled around the United States and did some work in Uruguay.
Brant also directs an initiative launched by Michael Lloyd. They are calling it the Renaissance Project or Rebirth 2.0.
Rebirth 2.0Given the tension in the world, Wycliffe Hall believes that the world is ripe for a new renaissance. The word means “rebirth.”
In a Christian context, the idea of rebirth or “born again” is common. But Wycliffe Hall is embarking on a grand project. They want to be a catalyst for a grand vision of the rebirth of Christian culture and tradition, Christian values, and Christian participation.
Brant talks about this primarily in three ways: scholarship, leadership, and creativity. Each of these are crucial if they want to influence culture.
Scholarship is important because it is influential on culture. What happens in the university trickles down to culture.
Leadership is important for various reasons. But we can think especially of business and politics.
Creativity is key as well because artists, poets, musicians, and filmmakers tell stories that can shape us in valuable ways.
More Resources
For Michael Lloyd’s podcast, “Truth, Culture, and Rebirth,” click here.
Jonathan Brant’s book: Running into No Man’s Land – The Wisdom of Woodbine Williean
Jonathan Brant’s book: Guide to Knowing God
For information about Wycliffe Hall, Oxford click here.
For a transcript of this episode click here.
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Episode 198 Lost World of the ProphetsJohn Walton was recently at the Lanier Theological Library in Houston. He addressed a packed house on a topic related to the book of Daniel.
Recently, he and Dr. Aubrey Buster, a colleague from Wheaton College, have been working on a commentary on the visionary prophet.
John talked with David Capes on The Stone Chapel Podcasts about another book he published, The Lost World of the Prophets.
Who Is John Walton? Dr. John Walton is a well known Old Testament scholar. He retired recently from Wheaton College and was named Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Wheaton College.
John spent the better part of nineteen years teaching there. He also taught at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago for nearly twenty years.
Dr. Walton has spent a career helping us understand that to interpret the Bible well you must interpret it against the background of the times, language and culture of the people to whom it was originally addressed.
He has a series of “Lost World” books demonstrating the value of knowing the culture.
Lost World of the ProphetsJohn’s most recent book is The Lost World of the Prophets. It does for the writing prophets what The Lost World of Genesis did for the first book of the Bible. And there have been others.
Walton believes many pigeon-hole the prophets into people who merely predicted future events. Often at a distance.
But when prophecy is understood against the times and history of when they were speaking or writing, prophecy takes on a different character.
As with his other “Lost World” books, he divides the chapters into a number of propositions about the prophets and the seemingly odd character of Israel’s prophets.
If you want to interpret Scripture well, this is a podcast to which you must listen.
ResourcesFor some of John Walton’s “Lost World” books, see below. These are available as audiobooks and paperback books:
The Lost World of the Prophets: Old Testament Prophecy and Apocalyptic Literature in
Ancient Context
The Lost World of Genesis One: Ancient Cosmology and the Origins Debate
The Lost World of the Torah: Law as Covenant and Wisdom in Ancient Context
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Episode 197 Truth, Culture, and Rebirth with Michael LloydIn spring 2024 David Capes and his wife, Cathy, were in Yarnton for a conference. While there, they met with Dr. Michael Lloyd to talk about an initiative at Wycliffe Hall, one of the permanent houses at Oxford. In this podcast David and Michael discuss briefly a huge project to reset the tone of culture.
Who Is Michael Lloyd? Dr. Michael Lloyd is principal of Wycliffe Hall. He has been with us before on this podcast. Be sure to check the show notes for links to those podcasts. He has also been a lecturer at the Lanier Theological Library in Houston. They are below as well.
As principal, Michael is tasked with the overall direction of the school. Wycliffe is an Anglican training college in one of the oldest, most important universities in the world. Indeed, the world comes to Oxford, and then goes back to their respective countries.
Truth, Culture, and RebirthMichael Lloyd believes we are at a crossroads. People have become fed up with the idea that truth is subjective and relative. They recognize that relativism is a danger to science and justice. So, they are looking for something more reasonable. The Christian faith addresses the question of truth.
The world has witnessed many renaissances. The most famous, the Italian Renaissance of the late middle ages. Renaissance means rebirth. It is the rediscovery of the truth, goodness, and beauty of the classical world.
Dr. Lloyd believes we need a new rebirth of culture and the Christian faith can speak profoundly to that. He wants Wycliffe Hall to take a leading role in gathering scholars, artists, and other creatives to reimagine the world through the lens of the Christian faith.
Listen to get a more complete picture of what Michael is proposing.
Truth, Culture, and Rebirth ResourcesClick here for a transcript of this podcast.
For Dr. Lloyd’s book Café Theology click here.
To hear his earlier podcast on Jesus, Evil and Suffering on the Stone Chapel Podcasts click here.
And here for a podcast on Wycliff Hall.
To see his lecture at the Lanier Theological Library on Jesus, Satan and the Problem of Suffering click here.
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Episode 196 Matthew and the “Trauma” of the Parousia In May 2024 the Evangelical Foundation for Biblical Research hosted two conferences at Lanier Library and Learning Centre at Yarnton, UK.
The focus of one of those conferences was on returning the pastoral purpose to the Parousia. It was led by David Capes, Randy Richards and Terry Wilder.
In all there were thirteen papers presented by scholars from North America, Britain, India, and Europe. One of those papers deals with the “trauma” some experienced in the 1970s and 80s over the teaching, movies, and music associated with the Parousia.
Jeannine Brown and Carla Dahl joins David Capes on The Stone Chapel Podcasts to discuss their topic.
Who Is Jeannine Brown and Carla Dahl? Jeannine Brown is a well-known and accomplished New Testament Scholar. She is a New Testament professor at Bethel Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. She’s writes broadly on NT themes. Her focus is on the Gospels.
Carla Dahl is a retired Professor of Pastoral Care and Spiritual Formation from Bethel Seminary and Luther Seminary in Minnesota. She continues in psychotherapy private practice.
Both women experienced anxiety over how the Parousia was presented to them. At the time, they were afraid they’d be left behind.
Matthew and the “Trauma” of the Parousia Jeannine Brown points out in Jesus’ “sermon” in Matthew 24—25 that the first part has to do with Jesus’ prediction of the fall of the temple.
Many of those “signs” are taken in dispensational interpretations as signs of the second coming (Parousia). It is in Matt 24:36 that Jesus’ turns his attention to the return of the Son of Man.
Larry Norman’s Song I Wish We’d All Be Ready typifies Jesus Music in the 1970s and 80s. Movies too describe how Jesus would come “like a thief in the night.”
Carla Dahl discussed how our brains work when there are perceived threats out there. People, for example, who fear abandonment because of some childhood trauma were especially vulnerable.
Resources for Matthew and the “trauma” of the ParousiaClick here for a transcript of this podcast.
Jeannine Brown’s book The Gospels as Stories: A Narrative Approach to Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John
Click here to watch Dr. Brown’s participation in a panel discussion at the Lanier Theological Library on the Atonement and the death of Jesus.
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Episode 195 Letter to the Hebrews with Amy PeelerAmy Peeler has been with us before on The Stone Chapel Podcasts. Her first podcast has two parts and she talked about her book Women and the Gender of God.
There is a link in the show notes below to find those two podcasts. She joins David Capes today on the podcast to discuss her new commentary on the letter to the Hebrews.
Who Is Amy Peeler?Amy Peeler is the Kenneth T. Wessner Chair of Biblical Studies at Wheaton College. The former holder of that chair was Dr. Doug Moo.
She earned her PhD at Princeton Theological Seminary and today is ordained as a priest in the Anglican Church. She serves as associate rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal church in Geneva, IL.
The Letter to the HebrewsFor all practical purposes the letter to the Hebrews is one of the most complicated and robust of biblical books.
It has attracted Dr. Peeler’s attention since grad school. She loves it, first, because of its heavy engagement with the Scriptures of Israel. She also loves it as a historian because of the way you can see Greek influences in the book.
We call it a letter today. It also has the overtones of a sermon and deep encouragement to a community under stress.
The commentary is part of a new series on Spiritual Formation. For Dr. Peeler the essential questions are: (1) who is God as revealed in Hebrews? (2) how are we to live in the light of this revelation? (3) how does reading this book change your life?
Joshua Jipp, professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago, said on social media that this is his all time favorite commentary. High praise, indeed!
So if you want to know more about the letter to the Hebrews, listen to this podcast first. Then find Dr. Peeler’s book.
ResourcesFor a link to Part 1 of her earlier podcast click here.
Part 2 can be found by clicking here.
For a link to her book, Hebrews in the Series Commentary for Christian Formation (Eerdmans 2024), click here.
For a link to her book, Women and the Gender of God (Eerdmans 2022), click here.
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Episode 194 How we got our New Testament with Lee McDonaldOne of the questions I often get is “How did we get our Bible?” As you’re going to hear on this podcast, there is not a quick, easy answer.
It’s an important historical question that had a few questions marks around it. Dr. Lee McDonald has given a lifetime to the question and has authored more than a dozen books on the topic. You can find a link to those later in these shownotes.
Dr. McDonald joined David Capes on the Stone Chapel Podcasts to talk about this question.
Who Is Lee McDonald?Lee McDonald earned his PhD at the University of Edinburgh. Prior to that he earned his masters at Harvard.
Today he is retired. But he spent many years as professor of New Testament Studies and President of Acadia Divinity College in Nova Scotia.
He has written a number of books on the canon of the Bible. See the show notes below for some of those. In retirement he lives in southern California.
How We Got Our New TestamentMcDonald is interested in the question of how we got our Bible. But this podcast deals only with part two of the Bible, the New Testament.
The issues are challenging. We have minimal historical sources that discuss the canon. The presence of manuscripts themselves help us somewhat.
Canon is a technical term for the list of inspired books referred to today as the New Testament. There are historical forces and factors that led to the development of the canon.
Capes and McDonald outline a few of these in the podcast. But there are also theological factors and concerns at the same time. Geographically, the church was scattered. So, practices in Ethiopia were different than those in Italy.
Early Christians were a very bookish people. They wrote a lot of books. I suppose you could say they also read a lot of books Some of those books were included in the canon, but many were excluded. In this podcast Capes and McDonald discuss the criteria for apostolic authorship.
ResourcesClick here for a transcript of today’s podcast.
A key book on the question which he wrote with interested lay people in mind:
Formation of the Bible: The Story of the Church’s Canon (Hendrickson, 2012).
A bit more technical is:
The Biblical Canon: Its Origin, Transmission, and Authority (Baker Academic, 2006)
To see a lecture by Dr. Lee McDonald at the Lanier Theological Library click here.
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Episode 193 Does the Church Have a Future? With Pablo DierosDr. Pablo Deiros gave a lecture at the Lanier Theological Library to an audience of about 300 people in April 2024. He lectured in his heart language, Spanish, the heart language of a growing number of people in the United States.
Every year the Lanier Theological Library sponsors a lecture in Spanish. Pablo stopped by the library to talk with David Capes for this episode of the Stone Chapel Podcasts.
Who is Pablo Deiros? Pablo was born in Paraguay to medial missionaries who were from Argentina. Today he makes his home in Argentina.
He has served as a pastor for fifty years. He has also taught and written books, mainly about the history of the church.
You can find some of his books at the Lanier Theological Library in the Spanish collection. For a time he taught at Fuller Seminary in California.
Does the Church Have a Future? The topic of Dr. Deiros’s lecture at the Lanier Library was the church in the 21st century. His focus was on Latin America and Hispanic churches in America.
However, the principles he shared are important for other parts of the world and church too.
Deiros believes we need to rethink the whole idea of church and how we “do” church. There must be a new orientation to ministry.
Not so much pastor-centered and denominational. But with a greater sense of “the priesthood of all believers.”
This was a Reformation focus that got lost in Christendom. This means relying less on a professional clergy and relying more on training every gifted person.
Or everyone, because everyone has a ministry gift. And this means a greater emphasis on the gifts and power of the Spirit. There is a lot more here, so just take a listen!
ResourcesTo watch the video of Dr. Deiros’ lecture in Spanish click here.
Here’s a link to LTL’s Spanish lecture in 2023, click here.
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Episode 192 Wise Church Planting with Dan SteelDan Steel lives in East Oxford, but he was in Houston recently to talk with various people in the Church Planting Network.
While he was in Houston, he met David Capes and David invited him to be on the podcast to talk about his new book.
Who Is Dan Steel?Dan is the ministry program director at Yarnton Manor, the Lanier project four miles north of Oxford. It is his first time on The Stone Chapel Podcasts.
He is originally from Oxford and has been in pastoral work, specifically church planting for years. Dan has learned a thing or two about church planting, the right and wrong ways to approach.
As a church planter and pastor, he has seen a bit of everything. God placed it on his heart to write his new book, Wise Church Planting.
Wise Church PlantingSteel’s recent book is about the pitfalls ahead for those who are brave enough to plant a church anywhere in the world. He used his marketing skills to pull together and analyze the major threats confronting church planters.
He surveyed people from 27 countries, so these are not just pitfalls for western countries. They are world-wide.
In this podcast (22 minutes), he gives a brief overview of the book and offers a summary of some of the issues faced by church planters. Some of these are issues are related to the leaders and the groups itself (internal factors). Others have to do with external pressures and how to negotiate them.
If you are a church planter or are interested in church planting, you want to hear this podcast. And if you’re thinking of starting a church, this is a book you need to read. There is wisdom here.
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Episode 191 Puzzling the Parables (Part 2) with Dr. Ruben ZimmermanToday is part 2 of a conversation David Capes had with Ruben Zimmerman. He was a visiting scholar from Germany, resident at the library. Be sure to listen to last week’s podcast. It sets up the conversation today on two Gospel parables. Here’s the link for last week’s podcast
Most of the time we leave our resident scholars in peace so they can read and research as they wish. Occasionally, we ask them to teach a class, be interviewed, share a meal, or do a podcast.
In this podcast we talk about two parables: the parable of the mustard seed and the parable of the dying grain. There are more to these parables than you might think.
Who Is Ruben Zimmermann? Ruben Zimmermann is a German Professor of the New Testament and ethics at the University of Mainz. He is married to a theologian who teaches at the University of Siegen.
They have four children, chickens, and a great garden. He studied at the University of Heidelberg, Erlangen, Bonn, and at a school in Santiago, Chile.
He has written and edited several books, most in German. But occasionally he writes in Engliish.
Puzzling the ParablesScholars and readers of Scripture debate exactly what is a parable? Zimmerman has come up with six features he says are typical of the parables of Jesus.
He discusses those in an important book he wrote: Puzzling the Parables of Jesus: Method and Interpretation (Fortress Press)
Scholars also debate whether this or that passage is a parable or whether Jesus really said it or not. That leads to the question of the historical Jesus.
It has become fashionable among New Testament scholars to claim that parables are absent from the Gospel of John altogether. Zimmerman does not think so.
Properly understood, there are several parables in the Gospel of John. What seems clear is that Jesus is remembered by all the Gospels as being a teller of parables.
Zimmerman’s book goes on to discuss methods used in the interpretation of parables.
While he does not delve into the interpretation of all 104 parables (according to his counting), he does dig deeply into several parables in the Gospels to show how it ought to be done.
More ResourcesCheck out his book: Puzzling the Parables of Jesus: Methods and Interpretation (Fortress Press)
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Episode 190 Puzzling the Parables Part 1 with Dr. Ruben ZimmermanOn a regular basis scholars and leaders come to the Lanier Theological Library to stay a few days, weeks or months. While there, they stay in some amazing cottages on our property.
Most of the time we leave them in peace so they can read and research as they wish. Occasionally, we ask them to teach a class, be interviewed, share a meal, or do a podcast.
Recently, Dr. Ruben Zimmermann was resident at the library. We asked him to sit down and talk about a recent book of his. This podcast is part 1 of that conversation.
Who Is Ruben Zimmermann? Ruben Zimmermann is a German Professor of the New Testament and ethics at the University of Mainz. He is married to a theologian who teaches at the University of Siegen.
They have four children, chickens, and a great garden. He studied at the University of Heidelberg, Erlangen, Bonn, and at a school in Santiago, Chile.
He has written and edited several books, most in German. But occasionally he writes in Engliish.
Puzzling the ParablesScholars and readers of Scripture debate exactly what is a parable? Zimmerman has come up with six features he says are typical of the parables of Jesus.
He discusses those in an important book he wrote: Puzzling the Parables of Jesus: Method and Interpretation (Fortress Press)
They also debate whether this or that passage is a parable or whether Jesus really said it or not. That leads to the question of the historical Jesus.
And it has become fashionable to claim that parables are absent from the Gospel of John altogether. Zimmerman does not think so.
Properly understood, there are several parables in the Gospel of John. What seems clear is that Jesus is remembered by all the Gospels as being a teller of parables.
Zimmerman’s book goes on to discuss methods used in the interpretation of parables.
While he does not delve into the interpretation of all 104 parables (according to his counting), he does dig deeply into several parables in the Gospels to show how it ought to be done.
More ResourcesCheck out his book: Puzzling the Parables of Jesus: Methods and Interpretation (Fortress Press)
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Episode 189 Eight Million Exiles with Christopher M. HaysWe have heard a lot about refugees in the last 20 years. War and violence drive people away from their cherished homes. Displacement creates all manner of suffering for good and decent people.
Christopher Hays stopped by the Lanier Theological Library recently to talk about a project he led in Colombia, South America, to address some of that suffering.
Who Is Christopher Hays? Christopher M. Hays is the president of Scholar Leaders. Prior to that he served as a missionary and visionary in Medellin, Colombia.
Hays earned a PhD in New Testament from the University of Oxford. For eight years he taught New Testament at the Biblical Seminary of Colombia. He was the chief investigator on the Faith and Displacement project.
Eight Million ExilesColombia has been in the grip of a vicioius, civil war for nearly 75 years. In the last twenty-four years, there have been one million murders.
Eight million people have been violently ejected from the homes The net effect of all this deprivation, displacement, and discouragement has deeply injured millions of people.
Teams of scholars, friends, and church leaders banded together to do something about these casualties of war.
Hays writes about this in his new book, Eight Million Exiles: Missional Action Research and the Crisis of Forced Migration. (Eerdmans, 2024).
The technical term for these “exiles” is Internally Displaced Persons (IDP). The Colombian government has done little to help them.
The UN does not typically help IDPs. So the best group to come alongside, house, feed, counsel, and help are the thousands of Christian churches already in many of these communities.
ResourcesFor Dr. Hays’ book Renouncing Everything: Money and Discipleship in Luke (Paulist Press, 2016) click here.
For his book When the Son of Man Didn’t Come: A Constructive Proposal on the Delay of the Parousia (Fortress, 2017) click here.
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Episode 188 Is Reading the Bible Enough? with Brent SandyBrent Sandy joins David Capes on the Stone Chapel Podcasts talking about his new book. They met at Wheaton College a few years ago. Brent taught at Wheaton College for a number of years, until he moved to Indiana.
Who Is Brent Sandy?Brent Sandy was born in Pennsylvania. He is interested in how best to read the Bible and how to help the church read Scripture for all its worth.
He earned his PhD in Classics at Duke University. And he’s spent the better part of his life in/ with/ for church. He loves the Church and laments that we read the Scriptures so poorly, whether in our churches or in our homes.
Is Reading the Bible Enough? By asking the question this way, we run the risk of being misunderstood. As Christians, we’re told to read the Bible. And we should, but what does it mean to read the Bible, actually read it.
That is what Brent Sandy is doing in his new book, Hear Ye the Word of the Lord: What We Miss if We Only Read the Bible (InterVarsity).
First, if we don’t read the Bible in context, we may “misread” it. Second, for us reading is a solitary process. We do it by ourselves.
But the Scriptures are meant to be read aloud, in a community of believers. Third, often even our public reading of Scripture is done badly, with no thought or preparation.
Fourth, we tend to read the Scripture in bits and pieces, a verse here, a chapter there. Paul wrote the Galatian letter to be read at one time, in one sitting.
This podcast explores some of these challenges.
More Resources We have another interesting podcast about reading scripture. For Randy Richard’s podcast, Misreading Scripture with Western Eyes, click here.
Click here for a link to Brent Sandy’s book.
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Episode 187 “Nobody’s Mother” with Sandra GlahnSandra Glahn has written a book that has a lot of people talking. She was at the Lanier Theological Library in Houston recently and talked with David Capes on The Stone Chapel Podcasts.
Who Is Sandra Glahn? Sandra Glahn is a professor of Media Arts and Worship at Dallas Theological Seminary. She is a creative force behind a project, The Visual Museum of Women in Christianity (www.visualmuseum.gallery).
It’s a project that is recovering some of the visual history of the Christian faith since its early centuries. Ironically, some of visual history does not make it into the history books.
Sandra is the wife of one husband for 45 years, a mother, a grandmother. She holds a PhD from University of Texas, Dallas, in the humanities.
“Nobody’s Mother”In 2023 Sandra Glahn published a book she has been working on for quite some time. It is entitled Nobody’s Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament (IVP Academic).
Although she thought it might be a “woman’s book,” she found that it had attracted a lot of attention from men as well who were unsure how to read certain New Testament references.
Since the time of Jerome, Artemis had been understood to be a fertility goddess, a nurturer, a mother. But Sandra’s research went deep into the inscriptions, texts, imagery, etc, to discoverer that she was “nobody’s mother.”
She was a hunter, filled with magic power, and often likely to kill a mother in childbirth if you ticked her off.
Dr. Glahn draws a number of conclusions about biblical texts, like Acts 19 and 1 Timothy 2, from what she has uncovered.
ResourcesNobody’s Mother: Artemis of the Ephesians in Antiquity and the New Testament (IVP Academic, 2023).
For the Visual Museum of Women in Christianity click here or type https://www.visualmuseum.gallery into your browser.
Here’s Sandra’s book, Vindicating the Vixens: Revisiting Sexualized, Vilified, and Marginalized Women of the Bible (Kregel Academic, 2017).
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Episode 186 Surprised by Oxford with Carolyn WeberCarolyn Weber is a unique woman. A portion of her life was made into a feature length film. It is titled Surprised by Oxford after her book of the same name published by Thomas Nelson. Links are below.
Dr. Carolyn Weber joined David Capes on The Stone Chapel Podcast.
Who Is Carolyn Weber? Carolyn is originally from Canada, but she and her husband, Kent, children, chickens, and dogs live near Nashville TN. She grew up nominally Catholic but describes herself before college as “agnostic.”
Dr. Weber went on to earn an MPhil and DPhil at Oxford, specializing in English literature. She also went on to fall in love and by the end of her first year at Oxford, she became a follower of Jesus.
Carolyn was helped along the way by the fellow she would marry, Kent, and by numerous other students, staff, and faculty at Oxford. C. S. Lewis and his writings became a mainstay for her as she transitioned to faith.
Today, Carolyn teaches at a Christian classical school, New College in Franklin Tennessee. She comes to that position with quite an academic pedigree.
Surprised by OxfordSurprised by Oxford is a memoir of one year in Carolyn Weber’s life. The book is thoughtfully organized according to the academic calendar of Oxford.
It is beautifully written and carefully presented. Like C. S. Lewis, Carolyn was a “reluctant convert.” She came kicking and screaming into the family. But it was those conversations, those friendships, those relationships that became key.
In this podcast Carolyn deals with the big picture of that year. So many more details await you in the book or in the movie. Or both! You will enjoy this podcast.
ResourcesHere is a link to her book Surprised by Oxford.
You can check out Weber’s other books here.
To watch a video on the imagination of C.S. Lewis, given by Jerry Root at The Lanier Theological Library, click here.
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Episode 185 The Saint John’s Bible with John RossWhat were you doing around the turn of the millennium? Anything memorable? Anything to be proud of?
Well, if you were a monk from Minnesota or a world class calligrapher or an artist you may have been working on the first hand-written, hand-illuminated Bible in 500 years, that is, The Saint John’s Bible.
John Ross joined David Capes on The Stone Chapel Podcasts to talk about its history, creation, and mission. It’s a fascinating story.
Who Is John Ross? John Ross is executive director of the Heritage Program of the Saint John’s Bible. For three decades he served as pastor to churches in the United Church of Christ (historic Congregational churches) in Ohio and Minnesota.
John’s church in Minnesota was gifted a Heritage copy of the Saint John’s Bible. He saw first hand how he as a church leader could use it to bring his congregants back to Scripture.
The Saint John’s BibleThe Saint John’s Bible is a transatlantic effort. It involves scholars, calligraphers, artists, and tons of imagination. It is the brainchild of Don Jackson, the scribe to the House of Lords and the Queen’s Crown office.
In the 15th century the printing press was invented. Prior to that, books like the Bible were hand-written over months and years because the materials were so expensive and the work so hard. Books were chained to library shelves and desks because they were so valuable.
After that, books were produced by the press. Hand-written and hand-illuminated books became a thing of the past.
The Saint John’s Bible is a thing of beauty. You can view images of it on the webpage: https://saintjohnsbible.org.
More Resources
For information about viewing a copy of the Saint John’s Bible, click here.
If you’d like to own or donate a copy to your favorite church or institution, click here.
Watch a video about the Saint John’s Bible here.
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Episode 184 “Time Has Come Today” with Jack WisdomJack Wisdom and David Capes have been friends for a number of years. They were elders together for a while of a downtown Houston Church. Jack is a devoted Christian, whose life has taken a hard turn in the last year. Perhaps more about that another time. He stopped by the Lanier Theological Library and joined David Capes on the Stone Chapel Podcasts.
Who Is Jack Wisdom? Jack is a successful trial attorney who has lived in Texas for many years. His practice centers on labor law. He was a Dallas police officer before he and his wife, Diana, moved to Massachusetts so he could study at Gordon Conwell Seminary. He studied under some of the greats there.
For decade Jack and his wife worked in Young Life. He’s responsible for training, evangelizing, and bringing order to disordered teenage lives. Now he is the author of 3 books, all of which deserve reading.
“Time Has Come Today”Time Has Come Today is the third book Jack Wisdom has written. They are definitely worth reading, because they are written by a person who knows whereof he speaks. He has studied well, works in the original languages, and combines good communication, writing, and humor. His chapters are short, as are his books.
Taking his cue from Texas singer-songwriter, Robert Earl Keen, Jack makes a case that each moment we live is a gift from God. It can either be wasted by slacking off or by keeping yourself too busy. We decide daily, by the hour, by the moment, how to live.
We have an adversarial relationship with time because of the fall. For most people, time is an endless succession of years, months, weeks, days and hour. Much of that without significance. But we can and ought to live in matters where this day, today, matters. Something great, important, life-changing can happen today.
Watch particularly for Wisdom’s distinction between two Greek words for time: chronos and kairos.
More ResourcesClick here for a transcript of this podcast.
Click on the title for a link to Jack’s books:
Time Has Come Today: Time, Eternity, and the Life of Joyful Urgency
Get Low: Reflections on Pride and Humility
Breaking Good: Repentence as a Way of Life
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Episode 183 Being Real with Philip PlymingIt’s easy to spot a fake. Young people are particularly good at it. And they have the means, through social media, to point it out! Philip Plyming has written an important book, entitled Being Real. It encourages Christians to be authentic in the hard stuff of life. He joined David Capes on the Stone Chapel Podcasts to discuss his book.
Who Is Philip Plyming? Philip Plyming (pronounced like Plymouth) is Dean of the Cathedral in Durham, northeast England. It may well be the best cathedral in all of Europe.
The cathedral is 900 years old, and people have been worshiping there for over one thousand years.
Plyming studied Russian and German at Cambridge and came to faith in Christ at university when he was eighteen. He later studied theology at the University of Durham.
Being RealPlyming focuses his attention in his new book on how God is at work in the tough times of our life.
He takes the Apostle Paul as his example. Paul has much to say about the times of beatings, shipwrecks, imprisonment, and the like.
God was not just at work with Jesus on the cross. Plyming says, “God is at work in cross-shaped places.”
God is not just at work in the good places of life. So, we, like Paul, can boldly discuss the hard things with one another. And we can expect that God is at work in them as well.
Resources Here is a link for Plyming’s book Being Real: The Apostle Paul’s Hardship Narratives and the Stories We Tell Today (SCM Press, 2023)
Would you like to hear more about this topic? Here are links to similar podcasts.
Michael Lloyd’s podcast on the problem of evil and Jesus’ approach- https://www.laniertheologicallibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/TSC_079-Evil-Michael-Lloyd-fin.mp3
Ingrid Faro’s podcast on deconstructing evil.-https://www.laniertheologicallibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/TSC_125-Deconstructing-Evil-final.mp3
Christian Brady’s podcast on beautiful and terrible things.-https://www.laniertheologicallibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/TSC_178-Beautiful-and-Terrible-Things-Final.mp3
You can watch Michael Lloyd and Ingrid Faro’s lectures (given at LTL) on this topic
Click here for Michael Lloyd’s lecture on Jesus, Satan and the Problem of Suffering
And here for Ingrid Faro’s lecture on Deconstructing Evil.
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Episode 182 Conquerors Not Captives with Joey DodsonDr. Joey Dodson is a good friend and a former student of mine. He was traveling through Houston and I grabbed him, forced him to each lunch, and asked him to be a part of this podcast.
Who Is Joey Dodson? Joey Dodson is the Craig L. Blomberg Chair of New Testament at Denver Seminary. He married his first-grade sweetheart . . . seriously. They have five children, two grandchildren and one grandchild on the way.
Dodson attended Ouachita Baptist University, and then came to Houston where he studied under David Capes at Houston Baptist University.
He then moved overseas to do his PhD at the University of Aberdeen with Simon Gathercole and Francis Watson. From there he studied at the University of Tubingen.
After his PhD Dodson taught for a time at Houston Baptist University. Later at Ouachita Baptist University. For the last five years he and his family have made their home in Denver where Joey learned the secret to contentment: move to Colorado. He loves hiking and the outdoors.
Conquerors Not CaptivesConquerors Not Captives: Reframing Romans 7 for the Christian Life (Lexham, 2024) is Joey Dodson’s latest book. He co-wrote it with his daughter, Mattie Mae Motl. It’s part of a series by Lexham Press whose goal is to take what is standard in the academy to the church.
His basic argument is that we must read Romans 7 in context, thus as part of Romans 6-8. It must not be read in isolation.
Nor should it be read over against our experience. It’s Exegesis not Narci-gesis. Accordingly, the “I” of Romans 7 is not the normative Christian Life.
Other Resources by Joseph Dodson
Paul and the Giants of Philosophy: Reading the Apostle in Greco-Roman Context
A Little Book for New Bible Scholars (Little Books), E.R. Richards
Want more on Romans? Here’s a link to N. T. Wright’s Podcast on the Romans Road.
And here’s a link to Wright’s lecture at LTL on Romans.
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Episode 181 Ignatius and Jesus with Jonathon LookadooJonathon Lookadoo joined David Capes on The Stone Chapel Podcasts to discuss his recent book, The Christology of Ignatius of Antioch. This book is part of a series of books entitled Studies in Early Christology, a series edited by Michael Bird, David Capes, and Scott Harrower.
Who Is Jonathon Lookadoo? Jonathon is an assistant professor at the Presbyterian University and Theological Seminary in Seoul, South Korea. He was born in America and studied abroad.
He did his PhD at the University of Otago in New Zealand. While there, he met and married his wife who is from South Korea. She is a linguist.
Ignatius and JesusAfter some introductory remarks, Jonathon talks about Ignatius and his significance as a theologian, writer, and martyr in the early second century AD.
Ignatius is best known for letters he wrote to churches on the way to his martyrdom in Rome. Exactly, why he is going to martyrdom is not clear.
Is it part of a general persecution happening at the time across the Roman Empire (perhaps under Trajan), or something else? But Ignatius’ letters apparently get into circulation early on because he is quoted by the likes of Polycarp and Origen.
Ignatius is concerned about the prevalence of false teachers in and around the churches. He is also adamant that the churches band together in unity around the leadership of the bishop.
But this podcast deals primarily with the Christology of Ignatius, that is, his understanding of the significance of Jesus for the Church.
How is the church to regard Jesus’ humanity, for example? How is it to think about his divinity?
Some of the false teaching likely had to do with a diminished view of Jesus. Either disregarding his humanity or downplaying his divinity. As Lookadoo explains, Ignatius is probably the next step in the development of the Church’s Christology.
ResourcesFor Lookadoo’s book, The Christology of Ignatius of Antioch, click here.
To learn more about the series, Studies in Early Christology (Cascade Books), go to www.studiesinearlychristology.com
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C.S. Lewis is one of the best communicators, and apologists. Teachers can use his writings to fire the imagination and help people grow in their faiths.
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Episode 179 “Hostile Environment” with George Yancey On April 20, 2024, Dr. George Yancey will deliver a lecture at the Lanier Theological Library. He stopped by “The Stone Chapel Podcast” to talk about that lecture and a book he published in 2015. His lecture will present his research on the anti-Christian bias. He will discuss the hostile environment for American Christians. And he will offer a few ideas on how to deal with it. Who is George Yancey? George Yancey is a professor of sociology at Baylor University. He is an African American Christian sociologist. He says he faces more hostility in academia because he is a Christian than because he’s black. Thus, he has spent a good bit of time investigating anti-Christian bias on a societal level. Hostile Environment In 2015 Dr. Yancey wrote a book entitled Hostile Environment: Understanding and Responding to Anti-Christian Bias. It was published by Intervarsity Press. His research indicates that anti-Christian bias in the United States is real. And those who have this bias are more likely to be wealthy, powerful, well educated, and white. It is, he says, every bit as real as Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. He often uses the term “Christianophobia” to describe this phenomenon. He realizes that some prefer anti-Christian bias. In this podcast we discuss how anti-Christian bias in America is different than anti-Christian bias around the world. There is less risk of physical harm, and more of societal harm in the workplace, in the media, in the arts, and in higher education. The bias, he believes, can be addressed, but it will not be corrected quickly. It is a long term project. What Scholars say about “Hostile Environment” Here is what Kelly Monroe Kullberg says about his book: “Yancey urges us to get in the war in an honorable way, adding our courage and insight for cultural survival and renewal. At times we’re to fight fire with fire. That might mean calling out bigotry and hate where you see it. Love speaks. Love tells the truth. Love risks. Love does not fail.” Resources For a transcript of this podcast, click here. Yancey is the author of a number of books including So Many Christians, So Few Lions: Is There Christianophobia in the United States? And Beyond Racial Division: A Unifying Alternative to Colorblindness and Antiracism More Resources Want more Stone Chapel Podcasts on some great topics? Just click here. You can get information on upcoming lectures at Lanier Theological Library by clicking here Subscribe to this podcast so you don’t miss any of the great conversations with scholars and church leaders from around the world.
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Episode 178 “Beautiful and Terrible Things” with Christian Brady Tragedy has a way of bringing people together. People who might not meet otherwise hear about and then seek out connection with people who have a shared experience. Listeners to this podcast will recall that in 2019 the adult son of David Capes, our host, and his wife, Cathy, died at the age of 36 from a vicious and rare cancer. They have been open about their grief. Well, years earlier Christian Brady and his wife, Elizabeth, had a tragic experience of their own when their son, Mack, age 9, died of sepsis. Parents should never have to say good-bye like this to their children. It is unnatural, and yet it happens far too often. Christian Brady joins David Capes on The Stone Chapel Podcasts to talk about his book, Beautiful and Terrible Things: A Christian Struggle with Suffering, Grief, and Hope (Westminster John Knox Press, 2020). Who Is Christian Brady? Christian Brady is Professor of Ancient Hebrew and Jewish Literature and the Dean of the Lewis Honors College at the University of Kentucky. He is also a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of Lexington, KY. He is married to Elizabeth. Together they have two children, though one they no longer see. “Beautiful and Terrible Things” Brady has written an important book, reflecting deeply on grief, faith and Scripture. Whoever reads this book will feel guided gently through the losses that come from life’s tragedies. As “lament” is a common theme in Scripture, so it is in this book. He gives us the language we need to do the important work of grief. What Scholars say about “Beautiful and Terrible Things” Here is what Walter Brueggemann said of this book: “Brady’s witness is to the costly process of grief and the prospect of faith that will not alleviate but will carry us through that cost. This book will serve well those who face such anguished loss. Beyond that, the book is enriched with study questions for those who know that, sooner or later, we will all lose our loved one and will be summoned to such grief.” Resources For a transcript of this podcast, click here. To hear earlier podcasts on the questions of grief and suffering: TSC 079 Jesus, Evil, and Suffering with Michael Lloyd TSC 044 God of All Comfort with Scott Harrower More Resources Want more Stone Chapel Podcasts on some great topics? Just click here. You can get information on upcoming lectures at Lanier Theological Library by clicking here Subscribe to this podcast so you don’t miss any of the great conversations with scholars and church leaders from around the world.
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Episode 177 The Divine Name in the DSS (Part 2) with Emanuel Tov For three months Emanuel Tov and his wife, Lika, have been resident at the Lanier Theological Library in Houston (2023-24). I cannot express what an honor it is to have them present in our library. Every day Tov sits reading and studying in the alcove featuring the library of Florentino Garcia Martinez. Professor Tov joined David Capes on The Stone Chapel Podcasts to talk about how scribes in the desert community of Qumran wrote the divine name in the scrolls. Who Is Emanuel Tov? Emanuel Tov is the emeritus J. L. Magnes Professor of Biblical Studies at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Born in Holland during the Nazi occupation, he emigrated to Israel in 1961. He earned his PhD at Hebrew University under the supervision of Shemaryahu Talmon and Frank Moore Cross. Tov is perhaps best known for his work on the Dead Sea Scrolls. For almost 20 years he was editor-in-chief of the International Dead Sea Scrolls Project. Under Tov’s guidance, the project published 33 volumes of DJD, Discoveries in the Judean Desert (Oxford). He has also written on the textual criticism of the Old Testament (Hebrew and Greek, see below). His wife, Lika, is a wonderful artist who creates art often imaging the Dead Sea Scrolls. You can see her artwork at www.likatov.info. Emanuel and his wife have three children and four grandchildren. The Divine Name in the Dead Sea Scrolls One feature of the Dead Sea Scrolls that fascinates scholars involves scribal habits. That is, the way scribes copied and wrote the biblical and non-biblical scrolls at Qumran. The scribes who wrote the scrolls had several unique habits. One had to do with the ways they expressed the unspeakable, ineffable name of God. Only a small percentage of the scrolls are written in Greek. Most are written in Hebrew. In this podcast Tov and Capes discuss how scribes wrote the divine names, especially YHWH, in the Greek scrolls. Resources Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible: Revised and Expanded Fourth Edition (2022) The Text-Critical Use of the Septuagint in Biblical Research (2015) More Resources For a transcript of this podcast, click here. Want more Stone Chapel Podcasts on some great topics? Just click here. You can get information on upcoming lectures at Lanier Theological Library by clicking here Subscribe to this podcast so you don’t miss any of the great conversations with scholars and church leaders from around the world.
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Episode 176 The Divine Name in the DSS (Part 1) with Emanuel Tov For three months Emanuel Tov and his wife, Lika, have been resident at the Lanier Theological Library in Houston (2023-24). I cannot express what an honor it is to have them present in our library. Every day Tov sits reading and studying in the alcove featuring the library of Florentino Garcia Martinez. Professor Tov joined David Capes on The Stone Chapel Podcasts to talk about how scribes in the desert community of Qumran wrote the divine name in the scrolls. Who Is Emanuel Tov? Emanuel Tov is the emeritus J. L. Magnes Professor of Biblical Studies at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Born in Holland during the Nazi occupation, he emigrated to Israel in 1961. He earned his PhD at Hebrew University under the supervision of Shemaryahu Talmon and Frank Moore Cross. Tov is perhaps best known for his work on the Dead Sea Scrolls. For almost 20 years he was editor-in-chief of the International Dead Sea Scrolls Project. Under Tov’s guidance, the project published 33 volumes of DJD, Discoveries in the Judean Desert (Oxford). He has also written on the textual criticism of the Old Testament (Hebrew and Greek, see below). His wife, Lika, is a wonderful artist who creates art often imaging the Dead Sea Scrolls. You can see her artwork at www.likatov.info. Emanuel and his wife have three children and four grandchildren. The Divine Name in the Dead Sea Scrolls One feature of the Dead Sea Scrolls that fascinates scholars involves scribal habits. That is, the way scribes copied and wrote the biblical and non-biblical scrolls at Qumran. The scribes who wrote the scrolls had several unique habits. One had to do with the ways they expressed the unspeakable, ineffable name of God. In this podcast Tov and Capes discuss how scribes wrote the divine names, especially YHWH, in the Hebrew scrolls. In part two, they talk about the way the scribes represented the divine name in the Greek scrolls. Resources Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible: Revised and Expanded Fourth Edition (2022) The Text-Critical Use of the Septuagint in Biblical Research (2015) More Resources Want more Stone Chapel Podcasts on some great topics? Just click here. You can get information on upcoming lectures at Lanier Theological Library by clicking here Subscribe to this podcast so you don’t miss any of the great conversations with scholars and church leaders from around the world.
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The Christian Mind Project addresses the lack of and bias against evangelical Christians in higher education especially in the areas of social sciences.
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How we read Scripture depends on our contextual perspective. Our worldviews shape how we read Scripture and what we find valuable and important.
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Stetzer studies culture, knows most of the players in evangelicalism, especially in North America and has his finger on the pulse of its current state.
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What is the gender of God? Is God male? Is God genderless or beyond gender? Does God contain the fullness of both genders? What does this mean for Christians?
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What is the gender of God? Is God male? Is God genderless or beyond gender? Does God contain the fullness of both genders? What does this mean to Christians?
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The book "Lord Jesus Christ" encourages evangelical churches to have a sufficient understanding of Jesus’ person and work, impacting other aspects of the Christian faith.
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We Are All Evangelicals documents an oral history of black evangelicals, looking at the intersection of traditional black churches and the evangelical movement.
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How do we frame AI systems that do the work we want but still remain good. The term Righteous AI is a way to view beneficial AI through the Christian lens.
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Mary’s Voice is a Christmas devotional for the Advent Season. Dr. Orr-Ewing wanted to amplify Mary, the mother of Jesus, as a key witness to the incarnation
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Many futurists, entrepreneurs, and government officials are concerned that rampant AI, artificial intelligence could do massive harm to lives and cultures around the planet.
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Sola Scriptura is Ben Witherington's book discussing scripture alone as authoritative for the faith and practice of the Christian even in the modern world.
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There are a lot of things you can do with a biblical studies degree other than “go into the ministry.” Biblical Archaeology is one of them.
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Pluralism exists. Cultures and values have shifted radically. It's been described as a culture war but rather than enemies, they are people to be gained.
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Episode 162 Apologetics in Strasbourg, France with Craig Parton A few years ago David Fleming, the executive director of the Lanier Foundation, and Mark Lanier signed an agreement to host annually the John Warwick Montgomery Lecture in Evidential Apologetics. Along the way we have become acquainted with the International Academy of Apologetics, Evangelism, and Human Rights. One of the instructors for that summer academy is Craig Parton. Who Is Craig Parton? Craig Parton lives in California. He became a Christian in college and developed interest early in apologetics. He is now a trial lawyer, but he spends a lot of time as the US Director for the International Academy of Apologetics. What Is the Apologetics Academy? Twenty-six years ago Craig Parton and John W. Montgomery (JWM) started the Apologetics Academy in Strasbourg, France. Every year they train around twenty men and women in apologetics, situated in one of the most historic and beautiful European cities. The academy lasts about two weeks. It is intentionally small to in order to facilitate conversation, discussion, questions, and community. To learn more about the academy: www.apologeticsacademy.eu The cost for the experience and learning is very reasonable. Accommodations are included. Some scholarships are available as well. Look for the brochure on the website for details and registration. The Annual Lecture at Lanier Library, Houston This year John Lennox, retired Professor of Mathematics from the University of Oxford, will be giving the John Warwick Montgomery Lecture in Evidential Apologetics. His topic will be “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity.” To hear David Capes’ podcast with Dr. Lennox in 2022 on the topic, click HERE. The lecture will be held 21 October 2023. It will be streamed lived on the Lanier Library’s YouTube channel. And a recored version will be posted there later as well as on the Library website. More Resources To watch JWM’s lecture at the Library several years ago, click here. To hear JWM’s podcast with David Capes (recorded in 2021) click HERE. You can read a transcript of this podcast here. For more resources check out these links. Want more Stone Chapel Podcasts on some great topics? Just click here. What’s more, you can get information on upcoming lectures at Lanier Theological Library by clicking here. Subscribe to this podcast so you don’t miss any of the great conversations with scholars and church leaders from around the world.
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The Jesus Revolution got its East Coast start in Nashville at Belmont church with pastor Don Finto. Much of Christian contemporary music has its roots there.
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Why did God give the gospel to the church? In his book Dr. Bates says that if it's just to deal with our sin problem, then that is not the complete story.
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Jesus among the Gods asks the question: what does it mean to call Jesus “God” or “god”? That may seem self-evident 2000 later, but the question is more complex.
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Dr. Gupta’s current book explores the stories and contributions of women in the earliest churches. Paul commends women right alongside men as fellow workers, apostles, deacons, and fellow prisoner.
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Episode 157 The Surprising Rebirth of Belief with Justin BrierleyJustin Brierley, a broadcaster, author, and speaker, will join us September 22, 2023 at 7.00 pm in the Stone Chapel. He will offer a talk on his book, The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God. The subtitle of the book is actually the big idea of the book: Why New Atheism Grew Old and Secular Thinkers Are Considering Christianity Again.
Who is Justin Brierley? Justin lives in London. For decades he has been hosting conversations between atheists and believers on his popular show, The Unbelieveable Show. His show has been at the cutting edge of what is happening in culture.
A few years ago, he had Mark Lanier as a guest on his show, and he recently came into our Houston orbit. He is an amazing thinker, a gifted communicator, and hospitable host for people with differing worldviews.
About Brierley’s first bookAfter hosting his show for ten years, he wrote his first book: Unbelievable: Why After Ten Years of Talking with Atheists I’m Still a Christian. He shares some of that story here, in this podcast.
Here is what Philip Yancey has said of Justin’s upcoming book:
“[T]his wide-ranging and stimulating book sounds a hopeful note… a fearless engagement with the most daunting issues of our time.”
And John Lennox:
“Eminently readable… Brierley has done us a huge service… This is a first-rate book: get it, read it, and give it to others.”
The Surprising Rebirth of Belief podcastThis is a great podcast, one you will not want to miss. He is addressing very pressing issues of our time.
More Resources including The Surprising Rebirth of Belief bookFor a link to his first book click here: Unbelievable: Why After Ten Years of Talking with Atheists I’m Still a Christian.
For a link to his newest book (2023) click here: The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God: Why New Atheism Grew Old and Secular Thinkers Are Considering Christianity Again.
For the new episodes of the Unbelieveable Show click here.
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The Virtual Museum is about gathering images showing women at high levels of leadership in the church both in the medieval era an in earlier centuries as well.
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The mission of the AWKNG School of Theology is to awaken Christians to a deeper understanding of the Bible. They would like to bridge the gaps between the academy and the church.
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Father Mario Arroyo describes a sacrament as an encounter with the real presence of God. He emphasizes the notion of “common-union” with Christ. He describes all the sacraments as God-initiated.
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About seventy years ago, the first of eleven caves was found containing scrolls from the first century BC to the first century AD. This is about the time the Jesus movement started. Today, and this is controversial, a 12th cave appears to have been found. More about this on another podcast. These scrolls are significant in many ways because they give us a window into that period like no other.
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About seventy years ago, the first of eleven caves was found containing scrolls from the first century BC to the first century AD. This is about the time the Jesus movement started. Today, and this is controversial, a 12th cave appears to have been found. More about this on another podcast. These scrolls are significant in many ways because they give us a window into that period like no other.
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For many years some scholars have regarded the word “Christ” as just another name for Jesus in the earliest writings of the New Testament, namely, the letters of Paul. But Matthew makes a cogent case that the word “Christ” in Paul means “Messiah.”
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The Pseudepigrapha are a complicated set of texts which are often classified together, although they are very different. The term “Pseudepigrapha” means “falsely-written.” That is, written in the name of another.
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The Pseudepigrapha are a complicated set of texts which are often classified together, although they are very different. The term “Pseudepigrapha” means “falsely-written.” That is, written in the name of another.
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"Including the Stranger" examines the books known as the former prophets and asks the big questions these prophets are discussing: Who are the people of God?
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Bible texts describe God as a warrior for his people. How do conflicts with demonic forces, disease, & human power structures show Jesus as the Divine Warrior?
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In Jennifer Knust and Tommy Wasserman's book, "To Cast the First Stone", great care is taken to trace how this beloved story came into the manuscripts and has become a mainstay of our own Bible tradition.
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Theology on Tap, is a Houston-based ministry to young adults and singles. Their tag line is "inviting believers and the spiritually curious to explore big questions of life and faith.”
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Episode 144 Formatting the Word of God with Dan WallaceIn May 2023 Dan Wallace lectured at the Lanier Theological Library. His topic was “Formatting the Word of God.” Before the lecture, he sat down to talk with David Capes for “The Stone Chapel Podcasts.”
Who is Dan Wallace? Dan Wallace is the CEO and executive director of the Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts (CSNTS) in Plano, Texas.
Formatting the Word of GodFrom the beginning, people who hand copied the New Testament Manuscripts put into the manuscripts features which made the reading of Scripture easier. But these features led to certain interpretations.
The Bible has certain formatting to it. It has to. Every literary product has to. For example, how wide should the margins be for a text? How wide should the text be? Is it going to be on a three-foot papyrus roll? So, there’s some formatting.
Certain features, for example, make it easier to read in public. Other features of copying indicate respect for and devotion to Christ.
Dan’s lecture will be rich in imagery drawn from the thousands of photographs of these amazing manuscripts that this organization has taken over the last decades.
Still thousands of manuscripts remain unphotographed. But his organization has discovered many other manuscripts not previously catalogued.
Even the form of the book itself—the codex not scrolls or rolls—has a certain interpretive significance.
The Center for the Study of the New TestamentBecause these manuscripts and inks are organic, over time they will decay, fade, and become unreadable. That’s one reason Dan started the Center for the Study of the New Testament: to preserve these valuable artifacts.
But there is another reason. The goal of the center is to make high quality, digital images available to all people. If the staff meet their goal, then in the future anyone in the world with an internet connection will be able to view images of available manuscripts.
Formatting TodayModern Bibles continue the interpretive features. Chapters, verses, columns, italicizing, page numbers, cross-referencing, and interpretive notes are employed by publishers and these guide readers to interpret the texts.
For the website of the CSNTS, go to www.csnts.org
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The Veritas Scholars Program's goal is to support, nurture, and mentor young Christian scholars in colleges and universities. The effort is across the university in disciplines such as physics, biology, social sciences, engineering, philosophy, and other humanities.
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Episode 142 Mount Ebal Curse Tablet with Scott StriplingScott Stripling stops by the Lanier Theological Library to talk with David Capes on The Stone Chapel Podcasts.
He visits with us on earlier podcasts. But this time he is with us to discuss an exciting discovery, the Mount Ebal Curse Tablet.
Who is Scott Stripling?Scott Stripling is Provost at the Bible Seminary and VP for Donor Relations. He is a field archaeologist who has been digging in Israel for decades.
Scott and his team made a number of exciting discoveries, and is a strong advocate for a method called wet sifting.
The Press ConferenceScott and his staff at the Bible Seminary gave a press conference in March 2022. He announced the discovery and some preliminary observations about a curse table discovered on Mt. Ebal.
That video has over 25 million views. To see that video click here.
Mount Ebal Curse Tablet-the DiscoveryUsing a method called wet sifting, Scott and his team discovered a small lead tablet in a dump pile from Mt. Ebal.
The tablet was folded and unable to be opened. Using tomographic examination, researchers were able to read lines on the inside of the fold.
Epigraphers, experts in ancient writing, suggest the inscription is a proto-alphabetic text. It pronounces curses and contains a three-letter version of the divine name alongside El, another designation for God.
The initial analysis of the find was done by a European, Israeli, and American team. The results are published in the journal, Heritage Science, and can be read here.
Let the Debate Begin Now that the article is published. Scholars and analysts will begin to weigh in on the discovery and some of the claims made by the authors.
If dated properly, this is the first reference to the name of Israel’s God in the archaeological record. It predated any other known inscription in Israel by about 200 years. Perhaps 400 years.
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Episode 141 “In The Form of A God” with Andrew Perriman, Part 2This discussion is more technical than most we get into, but hang in there and think a few new thoughts today.
In the Form of a God is a new book by Dr. Andrew Perriman. It is part of series edited by Mike Bird, David Capes, and Scott Harrower called Studies in Early Christology (Cascade).
Perriman joined David Capes by Zoom from his home in London for two episodes of “The Stone Chapel Podcasts.” Here is part 2. If you haven’t heard part 1, go back and listen to that episode here.
Who is Andrew PerrimanAndrew Perriman is a researcher and writer on topics related to eschatology and Christology.
He is Associate Research Professor, London School of Theology, and spends part of his time in pastoral work around the world.
He also works with a mission organization, Communitas. As he says, he inhabits two worlds.
Details about “In the Form of A God”The subtitle of the book narrows the subject of the book The Preexistence of the Exalted Christ in Paul.
Many scholars believe that Paul, our earliest Christian theologian, already held to the notion that before Jesus was “born of a woman” (Gal 4:4-6), he existed in heaven as a divine being “in the form of God” or as Perriman prefers “in the form of a god” (Phil 2:6).
His book asks the question: did Paul believe in the pre-existence of Christ? And if so, to what extent?
The Philippian Hymn (Phil 2:6-11)
Perriman has an interpretation of Phil 2:6-7 that is at variance from many scholars. First, he does not regard it as a hymn.
He considers it an encomium, that is, rhetoric designed to praise a human being.
Second, he thinks it unlikely that Paul wrote it. Rather, he approves of it generally because he incorporates it into his letter.
Third, he focuses upon the phrase “in the form of (a) god” to demonstrate that the backdrop of this passage—at least the first verses of it—comes from a pagan background that is accustomed to god’s appearing in human form.
Jesus appeared in his ministry as a godlike figure. It is generally agreed that morphe, that is, “form” refers to an outward appearance not the essence of a person or thing.
Seize the Opportunity
The other key word in this passage is harpagmos, which Perriman regards as an opportunity to be seized.
Perriman follows the case made by Roy Hoover in 1971 (see details below). He believes, the most likely reference goes back to Jesus’ temptation in the wilderness.
The godlike man was presented with an opportunity to have the kingdoms of the world, and he turned it down.
Essentially, the passage (Phil 2:6-11) poses the question: how should a Gentile, a pagan understand Jesus?
The second half of the hymn or encomium is thoroughly Jewish because ultimately everything, every creature will bow down to the Jewish God, Creator of the heavens and earth.
Finally
In the end Perriman regards this passage not so much as a hymn with a preexistence Christology.
Rather it is rhetoric designed to make Jesus an example of humility and wisdom, a person person worthy of imitation.
See Roy Hoover, “The Harpagmos Enigma: A Philological Solution,” Harvard Theological Review 64 (1971) 95-11.
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Episode 140 “In The Form of A God” with Andrew Perriman, Part 1In the Form of a God is a new book by Dr. Andrew Perriman. It is part of a series edited by Mike Bird, David Capes, and Scott Harrower called Studies in Early Christology (Cascade).
Perriman joined David Capes by Zoom from his home in London for two episodes of The Stone Chapel Podcasts.
Who is Andrew PerrimanAndrew Perriman is a researcher and writer on topics related to eschatology and Christology.
He is Associate Research Professor, London School of Theology, and spends part of his time in pastoral work around the world and with a mission organization, Communitas. As he says, he inhabits two worlds.
Here’s a link to Andrew’s blog. https://www.postost.net/
About “In the Form of A God”The subtitle of the book narrows the subject of this book “The Pre-existence of the Exalted Christ in Paul.”
Many scholars believe that Paul, our earliest Christian theologian, already held to the notion that before Jesus was “born of a woman” (Gal 4:4-6), he existed in heaven as a divine being “in the form of God” or as Perriman prefers “in the form of a god” (Phil 2:6).
What’s the Big Idea of the book?His book asks the question: did Paul believe in the pre-existence of Christ? And if so, to what extent?
Perriman takes a look at a number of key texts in Paul’s letters where scholars think the apostle refers to Jesus as being in some sense pre-existent.
His unique approach situates Christology within Paul’s eschatology. To say it another way, Perriman begins with eschatology rather than Christology, because he regards eschatology as Paul’s major concern.
For Perriman, Paul is less concerned about the Son’s relationship to the Father than he is about mission and history (what is to come).
This is part one of our conversation. Part two will drop next week.
What scholars are saying about the bookHere is one scholar’s assessment of the book:
“In his latest book In the Form of a God, Andrew Perriman has shown himself once again to be an incredibly creative and insightful thinker.
If you are at all interested in New Testament Christology, you simply cannot afford to skip reading this book. It will lead you to ask new questions and make you think even if you have given sustained attention to the key christological passages in the New Testament.”
–James F. McGrath, Butler University
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Revelation for the Rest of Us, with Scot McKnight and Cody MatchettRevelation for the Rest of Us is the title of a new book by Scot McKnight and Cody Matchett. It is published by Zondervan.
They both sit down and talk about it with David Capes on The Stone Chapel Podcast.
Who are the AuthorsScot McKnight is Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary in Lisle, Illinois, in the western suburbs of Chicago.
Cody Matchett is a PhD student in New Testament, a student of Scot’s, and a pastor in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
The Big Idea in Revelation for the Rest of UsScot and Cody survey some of the interpretive approaches to Revelation and for various reasons reject them in whole or in part.
They do hold that the book was written to and for the seven churches in Asia Minor in the first century.
Early Christians would understand its message, especially as they regularly faced Babylon, a symbol for Roman power.
At the same time, the book has a sense of timelessness about it. Reading it is profitable for people of any time in history.
Their conclusionsIn the end, they offer a theo-political reading of Revelation, which attempts to grasp God’s view of the powers in the world.
Politics and governments are necessary to human society, but they are prone to evil and corruption just as much as they are prone to sometimes doing good. They must be resisted and dismantled.
Here is what Professor Miroslav Volf, is saying about the book:
A fascinating and engrossing book about one of the most puzzling—and hopeful–books of the Christian Bible.
Revelation is about how to live as dissidents in the Babylon of our time, how to hope actively for the New Jerusalem, the home of God and the goal of creation.
Miroslav Volf, Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology, Yale Divinity School, founding director, Yale Center for Faith & Culture, and coauthor of The Home of God
Scot McKnight at The Lanier Theological LibraryWatch Scot McKnight’s lecture at the Lanier Theological Library about reading Romans through the lens of Paul’s pastoral grief. click here.
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Episode 138 Miracles and Parables with Samuel Pagan“Miracles, Parables, and Jesus” is the latest episode of the Stone Chapel Podcast, It was recorded in person at the Lanier Theological Library.
This is Dr. Pagan’s first visit to the library. In the future he will assist us in building out our Spanish collection.
Spanish Lecture at LTL, Miracles and Parables of JesusEvery year the Lanier Theological Library holds a lecture in Spanish for our Spanish-speaking guests and colleagues. For this lecture we had nearly 300 in attendance.
This year the lecture was entitled:
Mensajes y Milagros de Jesús el Cristo: Implicaciones Transformadoras
(Messages and Miracles of Jesus the Christ: Transforming Implications)
Esta presentación explorará la estrecha relación teológica y pedagógica entre los mensajes y los milagros de Cristo. El Dr. Pagán cubrirá las diferentes metodologías utilizadas por Jesús para transmitir su mensaje y analizará el modo en que los milagros complementaron esas enseñanzas.
(This presentation will explore the close theological and pedagogical relationship between the messages and miracles of Christ. Dr. Pagan covers the different methodologies used by Jesus to convey his message. He will analyze the way in which his miracles complemented his teaching.)
In this podcast Dr. Pagan talks with David Capes (in English . . .) about his lecture and summarizes many of his main points.
Who is Samuel Pagan?Dr. Samuel Pagan is a Bible scholar from Puerto Rico. He has been recognized as one of the leading translators of the Bible in the Spanish-speaking world.
As a prolific writer, he has over 70 books and thousands of articles published of biblical, theological, and pastoral themes.
And he has edited five Study Editions of the Bible. He is an ordained minister of the Disciples of Christ Church, and with his wife, Dr. Nohemi C. Pagan, teaches not only in the Hispanic communities in the USA, Europe, and Latin America, but in the Holy Land and the Middle East.
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Episode 173 Capturing Christianity Capturing Christianity is an apologetics ministry directed by Cameron Bertuzzi, assisted ably by his wife Brittany.
Cameron stopped by the Lanier Theological Library to talk with David Capes about his ministry on “The Stone Chapel Podcast.”
Who is Cameron Bertuzzi? For years, Cameron made his living through photography and photo-editing. But when his brother came out as an atheist a few years ago, Cameron began a journey in apologetics that has led to this ministry.
He wanted to know whether Christianity could be rationally defended. He wanted to explore some of objections raised by skeptics about its truth.
Like many people, Cameron had never thought deeply about his faith. He attended church and performed in the worship band, but he had never considered the rational basis of faith.
Capturing ChristianityCameron and his wife work together in this ministry. Along his journey, Cameron began listening to apologists and soon found an intellectual hero in Dr. William Lane Craig.
Today, Cameron works consistently with Dr. Craig. Dr. Craig lectured at the Lanier Library in 2021. For a link to his lecture click here.
Then watch his panel discussion here.
The ministry started as a blog in 2017. Cameron worked on it in his free time for the first two years. Now he and Brittany work full time.
He hosts dialogues, does interviews, and features what he calls “CC Exchanges.” At the heart of it all, they focus their conversations around “atheistic apologetics”.
The Capturing Christianity YouTube channel today has 178,000 subscribers. It has taken off. About 5000 people a month find his ministry.
CC Exchange
The next CC Exchange will be May 6, 2023 at the Lanier Theological Library. Cameron will host the exchange with Justin Schieber (atheist) and Eric Hernandez (Christian).
Their topic is “Does God Exist?” To learn more about the event or to attend click here. The event is free and open to the public thanks to the generosity of the Lanier Foundation and the good people at Capturing Christianity.
If you can’t attend, it will be streamed live and recorded for the Capturing Christianity YouTube Channel.
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Episode 136 A Visit to Tyndale House with Peter WilliamsCathy, my wife, and I visited Tyndale House recently when we were in the UK.
It was our first time there and we were welcomed warmly by many including Peter Williams. Peter is the Principal and CEO of Tyndale House Center for Biblical Research in Cambridge.
Tyndale HousePeter describes Tyndale House as “a residential research library and worshiping community.”
It started in 1944, before D-Day, as a center for Bible research. While Europe was engulfed in war, many with vision saw the need for such a center. And they imagined it in the shadow of one of the world’s great universities.
Peter has been with us before on The Stone Chapel Podcast to talk about Tyndale House. To hear that podcast (18 minutes) click here.
A New InitiativeOn this visit to Tyndale House Peter and I discussed an important plan the staff has to become a greater and greater resource to majority world scholars.
The fact of the matter is that resources (like colleges, universities, libraries, accommodations, and lecturers) are not spread evenly around the world.
Most churches in the world are not staffed by trained pastors. And as the church in the west grows greyer, the church in the global south is younger and more energetic.
What Tyndale House is doingSo Tyndale House is making more space and greater resources available to church leaders from Madagascar, Egypt, Congo, Brazil and many other countries around the world.
Some of these church leaders and scholars come from war zones and countries where Christians are in a persecuted minority.
For them Tyndale House is an oasis in the desert, but inevitably all return home with friendships, connections, and learning that lasts a lifetime.
To learn more
To learn more about Tyndale House go to their website: Tyndalehouse.com. They have podcasts, newsletters, and other resources available.
Peter was one of our earliest lecturers at the Lanier Theological Library. To watch his first lecture with us click here.
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Episode 135 Broken PlanetBroken Planet is the title of a new book by Sharon Dirckx (PhD, Cambridge) with InterVarsity Press (2023).
The subtitle describes the question she hopes to address: If There’s a God, Then Why Are There Natural Disasters and Diseases? She joins David Capes on The Stone Chapel Podcast to talk about her most recent book.
Who is Sharon Dirckx, author of Broken Planet?Sharon Dirckx is a freelance speaker and author who occasionally teaches courses for OCCA, The Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics.
She has been with us before on this podcast and has lectured at the Lanier Theological Library in Houston in November 2022.
Links to those episodes and to her other books are below.
While her PhD from Cambridge is in brain imaging, Dr. Dirckx has turned her attention to our broken planet.
She and her husband live in Oxford, UK
Are we living on a Broken Planet? A great deal of suffering is caused by natural disasters: tsunamis, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, pandemics, and other catastrophes.
How do we account for such disasters if there is a God who is all powerful? Is our planet broken or is this the best of all possible worlds as some regard it?
It is one thing to make a case for the origin and impact of moral evil or “man’s inhumanity to man.”
But it’s quite another to talk about the planet itself as being our home and our nemesis.
Dirckx mixes her own style of apologetic argument with stories of people who suffered and survived to create a compelling book.
This podcast captures a bit of her book and aims to help readers deal with those tragedies not caused by humans.
Click here to watch Sharon Dirckx’s lecture at the Lanier Theological library, on her second book, Am I Just My Brain.
Watch a short video here of Sharon discussing the topic, Can you be a credible scientist and believe in God.
For Sharon’s Podcast’s on her book, Am I Just My Brain, click here.
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Episode 134 Amplifying Global VoicesAmplifying Global Voices is a podcast featuring two team members of Langham Partnership.
Kiwi Jin, Global Voices Coordinator, and Ben Ritter, Marketing Coordinator, join David Capes on The Stone Chapel Podcast.
They recently attended a lecture weekend featuring Langham scholar, Havilah Dharamraj.
Langham Partnership and John StottLangham Partnership is the legacy of John Stott, rector of All Soul’s Church in London.
Stott got involved in the Global Church over fifty years ago. He wrote more than fifty books that publishers have translated into more than seventy languages.
At a crucial point in his ministry, Stott decided to renounce 100% of his book royalties and speaking honoraria. Consequently, he dedicated that money to equipping scholars in the Majority World.
Amplifying Global Voices: Fun Facts* In 1900 18% of Christians lived outside the west. * Today 70% of Christians live outside the west in South America, Africa, and Asia.
In the 1970s John Stott saw the growth in the Global South and understood the need for trained ministers.
Because most graduate schools and seminaries are situated in the west (Europe and North America), Langham Partnership has devised means to train pastors and church leaders and have them remain within their cultural context.
Langham PartnershipThe Lanier Theological Library is committed to hearing from voices in the global south.
One example, Langham assisted Havilah Dharamraj, a prominent south Asian leader, in receiving her PhD at the University of Durham. And now she is speaking to the church in the west.
You can watch the video (80 minutes) of Havilah Dharamraj’s lecture by clicking here.
In addition, you can listen to Havilah’s podcast (18 minutes) by clicking here.
Langham Partnership is doing a number of things around the world. First, Langham Publishing is making sure global south leaders and influencers are published.
They are strategically publishing books around the world.
Second, the partnership will soon be releasing short courses taught by majority world scholars.
And now, these course are online and they are FREE, so anyone can access them.
Third, make sure you checkout the podcast OnMission with Chris Wright. It is available on all the major streaming services.
So if you’d like to learn more about Langham Partnership USA go to www.langham.org.
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Episode 133 Ruth and Naomi With Havilah DharamrajReading Ruth in South Asia is the theme of a recent lecture at the Lanier Theological Library in Houston, TX (Winter 2023).
David Capes, the Director of the library, sat down to talk with our lecturer, Dr. Havilah Dharamraj, on the Stone Chapel Podcast.
The lecture was co-sponsored by Langham Partnership.
Who is Havilah Dharamraj?
Dr. Dharamraj has her PhD from the University of Durham. She is an Old Testament scholar and academic dean.
In addition, she is the head of the department of Old Testament at the South Asia Institute of Advanced Christian Studies (SAIACS) in Bangalore, India.
She is a Langham scholar whose reputation far and wide is extraordinary. She is married and has two grown children.
Books by Dr. DharamrajHavilah is the author of two important books, the first Altogether Lovely: A Thematic and Intertextual Reading of the Song of Song (Fortress Press, 2018).
It is part of a South Asian series in biblical theology.
The second is Ruth: A Pastoral and Contextual Commentary (Langham Publishing, 2019).
It is part of the Asia Bible Commentary.
Here is what a leading Old Testament scholar has to say about the book:
“This a delightful commentary that deserves a wide readership. The authors combine solid exegesis with a warm and very readable style.
Their exploration of the book of Ruth with Asian eyes reminds us Westerners how much closer to the world of the Bible others may be.
The illustrative anecdotes from their own Indian world give this commentary a quality that is found in none other.”
Daniel I. Block, DPhil
Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, USA
Reading Ruth and NaomiIn this conversation Dr. Dharamraj uncovers the message Ruth has for contemporary audiences.
Western audiences can hardly grasp the heart of it because western culture is so far removed from that of Naomi’s and Ruth’s time.
But in South Asia, the plight of the widows, the childless, and women remains bleak.
Ruth speaks in remarkable ways to our disposition toward the least of these and the vulnerable.
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Episode 132 Vox Petri: The Voice of Peter, with Gene Green The Vox Petri, the authentic voice of Peter, is the topic of this podcast and the title of a new book by Gene Green, Vox Petri, A Theology of Peter By Cascade Publishing.
It’s a book that has been in process for many years and is recommended reading.
Who is Gene Green? Gene Green is Professor Emeritus of New Testament from Wheaton College and Graduate School in Illinois.
He also currently serves as adjunct professor at NACOS, the Native American Course of Studies of The United Methodist Church.
Peter and PaulTo goad his New Testament colleagues, Green says that “Paul is derivative of Peter.” Is that true?
Gene thinks that much of what we find in Paul is similar to what is near to the authentic voice of Peter.
Paul had both the opportunity and the desire to know more about Jesus, and Peter likely shared with him stories about the earthly Jesus.
But there is something else. Protestants appear to favor Paul. Catholics appear to favor Peter.
Why is there so little preaching and teaching on Peter in Protestant Churches?
Their default mode is to preach Paul and also perhaps the Gospels, but they leave out vast swaths of material in the so called “General Letters” or “Catholic Letters.”
Prominent among that collection are the letters of Peter.
Where do you find the authentic voice of Peter? According to Gene Green, the theology of Peter is expressed in the Gospel of Mark, in stories of Acts, and then 1 Peter.
Gene does not deal with 2 Peter in his book because of the controversies associated with the authorship of that book.
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Great Theology and Warm Hearts“Great theology & warm hearts” is how Rob Trenckmann characterizes the spirit of Newton House in Oxford, England.
Trenckmann is the director of Newton House.
Before coming to Newton House, Rob was a pastor and church leader who spent 9 years with his family as a missionary in Hungary. Now he has a new challenge.
What is Newton House, Oxford? Newton House nurtures the pastor-theologians, authors, and teachers of the next generation.
And they foster evangelical-theological strength in the church with the finest scholarship.
It was founded just a few short years ago and named after John Newton (1725-1807).
Newton was one of the best known and influential pastor-theologians of his generation.
You can read more about John Newton and the Newton House here.
Where is Newton House, Oxford? Easy question. Their physical location is Oxford, UK, but their students and senior fellows are located all around the globe.
You don’t have to be in Oxford, UK, to take advantage of the conversations and resources.
Who leads Newton House, Oxford? In addition to Rob Trenckmann, the Newton House is ably led by its Dean, Professor Donald Fairbairn.
He’s a Professor of Historical and Systematic Theology at Union School of Theology.
And he’s a Professor of Early Christianity at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
Much of the heavy lifting of the Newton House is carried out by an excellent group of Senior Fellows who speak at their conferences and mentor younger scholars.
These include Professors Gwenfair Adams (Gordon-Conwell Seminary), Gerald Bray (Beeson Divinity School), Bradley Green (Union University), Philip Ryken (President of Wheaton College, IL, USA), Kevin Vanhoozer (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School), and many others.
Great theology and warm hearts is the mission.Together these men and women hope to raise up a generation of pastors and scholars who are “winsome, warm, and wise.”
How to learn more? If you want to know more about Newton House, go to their website: www.newton-house.com.
They have a newsletter which they send out “occasionally” when they have an event coming up. But they will not swamp your inbox with their announcements.
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All the Genealogies of the BibleDr. Nancy Dawson joins David Capes to talk about her upcoming book, All the Genealogies of the Bible: Visual Charts and Exegetical Commentary (Zondervan Academic forthcoming in October 2023).
Who is Nancy DawsonNancy has been working on this book for twenty years. She is not originally a historian or theologian.
This Oklahoman went the science route and became an expert in plant taxonomy, biology, particularly cell biology. Her most recent job in the field was at Texas A&M.
Along life’s way she attended Duke Divinity School in North Carolina. That is when she became interested in the genealogies of the Bible. And as a scientist, she could not leave them alone.
What do science and genealogies of the Bible have in common?Scientists like to categorize things. When Nancy found these genealogies, she began to try to make sense of them all.
Most genealogies are found in the Old Testament, in books like Genesis, Joshua, Ruth, and 1-2 Chronicles. But there are pieces of ancestry throughout the Bible.
Who collaborated on this book?Nancy knew that she needed some help on this book, so she turned to two well established scholars.
For the Old Testament that meant Dr. Eugene Merrill of Dallas Theological Seminary.
For the New Testament that meant Dr. Andreas Köstenberger, currently Research Professor at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.
They worked carefully with Nancy to make sure these volumes represent the best thinking on these unique parts of the Bible.
More about the book-In all there are 280 charts in the book. But the book also has some wonderful prose in it that discusses these kinship connections that demonstrates how the structure of biblical history is set up.
A nugget of wisdomStick around until the end of the podcast because Nancy has some insights into the genealogies of Jesus of Nazareth found in Matthew and Luke.
Want to hear more about genealogies of the Bible?Be sure to listen to our earlier podcast with Ann Clements, “Mothers on the Margin?”. It deals with the wives and mothers listed in Matthew’s genealogy (Matthew 1).
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Do you need to learn Greek and Hebrew? Jon Laansma, joins David Capes on The Stone Chapel Podcast to talk about Wheaton College’s history in teaching the classics such as Greek and Hebrew. In addition they discussthe fact that the study of languages today is in peril.
This move, in turn, threatens the church in its proclamation of the gospel.
Who is Dr. LaamsmaDr. Jon Laansma is the Gerald F. Hawthorne Professor of Greek and Exegesis at Wheaton College. He has taught there since 2003.
Jon did his PhD under I. Howard Marshall at the University of Aberdeen.
He’s married and has one daughter and a new grandbaby. He is the author of a number of books. Click here to view his books.
Education has become more professionalized since World War II. The study of the classics, languages (like Latin, Greek and Hebrew), and the liberal arts among college students is falling off abruptly.
Learning Greek and Hebrew at Wheaton College.When Wheaton College was founded in the mid-19th century, students were not accepted without demonstrating competency in Greek regardless of what they are going to major in.
As recently as 1949 at Wheaton College, students were required to take a year of Greek regardless of their majors.
What does learning languages do for us?The study of humanities and languages are designed to teach people how to think—not what to think—and to communicate well.
They are the prelude to understanding the big questions: who am I? what is my place in history? what virtues are necessary to become and remain a free people?
Learning Latin, Greek and Hebrew and humanities help us become mentally nimble, to be able to see both sides of a question, and to cultivate intellectual virtues.
The ‘Other’ Podcast (hint-it’s about Greek and Hebrew)Jon Laansma is the Wheaton-based coordinator of a podcast known as Exegetically Speaking. This is a podcast of the friends and faculty of Wheaton College and the Lanier Theological Library.
Its purpose is to promote the study of biblical languages. David Capes serves as the host. Together Dr. Laansma and Dr. Capes oversee Wheaton College’s #1 podcast.
Every week Greek and Hebrew scholars from around the world stop in to show how reading the Bible in the original languages pays off.
We do have wonderful translations, but there is nothing quite like laboring and reading it in the original.
As one podcast guest said, it is the difference between black and white TV and high definition color.
If you are interested in studying Greek and Hebrew at Wheaton College contact Dr. Jon Laansma and he can guide you. Click here for more information about the faculty.
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Training in War Time“Training in War Time” has become part of the mission of ScholarLeaders.org.
Dr. Christopher Hays who received his PhD, from Oxford University is, president of ScholarLeaders (www.scholarleaders.org).
Today, he joins David Capes on this episode of “The Stone Chapel Podcast.”
Interestingly, David met Christopher in 2018 at the Biblical Seminary in the country of Columbia.
There he was Professor of New Testament and Greek. But he was also working with victims of forced displacement after more than 50 years of civil war.
Now his experience and insight are coming into clear focus.
What is the mission of ScholarLeaders?It’s to encourage and enable Christian theological leaders from the Majority World.
That is Africa, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East.
The organization started in 1983 when a group of western church leaders caught John Stott’s vision for training majority world leaders.
At first they provided scholarships which was very successful because it shaped a generation of theological leaders for Africa, Asia, and other critical areas.
Why is this so important?First, the modern mission movement has been a success. There are more Christians in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and other non-western countries than in any of the traditional missionary sending countries.
As the west becomes more post-Christian, most followers of Jesus are in the Majority World.
But these regions do not have the resources to train, mentor, and equip the next generation of leaders.
So, ScholarLeaders has stepped into the gap.
Training in War Times-What’s next for ScholarLeaders? How will ScholarLeaders help global Christians tackle the big, national issues?
First, in Islamic countries where Christians are in the minority.
Second, ScholarLeaders is working closely with seminaries in Ukraine.
One year ago the Russians invaded Ukraine. What does the Russian invasion mean for training in war time?
How can these regional schools best serve the Ukrainians?
As Russia shelled campuses and leaders were being conscripted to defend the nation, ScholarLeaders began to listen to what these local leaders needed and pivoted to a new kind of action.
Ten seminaries had to become refugee relocation spaces, assisting tens of thousands to safety. Key leaders of the Ukrainian churches have been lost in the war.
When the war is over, there will be an enormous need for new church leaders. On the other side of trauma, the pastoral needs will be enormous.
If you’d like to help brothers and sisters in Ukraine, learn more at ScholarLeaders.org
Books by Christopher HaysEvangelical Faith and the Challenge of Historical Criticism (Baker Academic, 2013)
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Episode 127: Is God a BullyIs God a Vindictive Bully? is a new book by Paul Copan. It asks a relevant question, a question on a lot of people’s minds.
When people look at the world around them and then read the Christian Scriptures, they don’t know what to make of the main character. How do we understand the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob?
Or to borrow Paul’s phrase, aka, “God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ”.
So is God a Bully?Is he a genocidal maniac as some new atheists claim? Is the Bible mistaken when it portrays God in a severe light, as some critics within say?
The subtitle tells the rest of the story: “Reconciling Portrayals of God in the Old and New Testaments.”
Paul Copan, our guest, thinks it is possible to reconcile those portrayals but not eliminate the tensions.
Who is Paul Copan?Dr. Paul Copan, (PhD, Marquette University), is uniquely qualified to address this question.
He is aChristian theologian, analytic philosopher, and apologist.
He serves as the Pledger Family Chair of Philosophy and Ethics at Palm Beach Atlantic University in West Palm Beach, Florida.
For six years, he served as president of the Evangelical Philosophical Society.
Copan is the author or editor of more than 40 books, including Is God a Moral Monster?;True for You, But Not for Me; That’s Just Your Interpretation;When God Goes to Starbucks; and A Little Book for New Philosophers.
Scholars review Is God a Bully?Here is what a prominent Old Testament scholar has to say about the book.
“People are inclined to think that the Old Testament God is like the Taliban and the New Testament God is a comfort animal.
Dr. Copan takes on that kind of view with passion. I can’t imagine that there are any misapprehensions about the Scriptures, particularly about the Old Testament, that aren’t covered by this book.
You may not agree with everything in Dr. Copan’s study, but you will be dazzled by the range of issues he covers and the range of material he offers.”
—John Goldingay, Fuller Theological Seminary (emeritus)
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Making Christians: The Ancient Practice of Catechism“Making Christians” is an expression that comes out in this podcast with Dr. Curtis Freeman. In more modern idiom we might say “Making Disciples.”
Making Christians: Who is Curtis Freeman? Dr. Freeman serves as Research Professor of Theology and Director of the Baptist House of Studies at Duke Divinity School.
He is a native Texan and has served as pastor and professor in a variety of settings.
He earned his BA at Baylor University, His MDiv at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, and his PhD at Baylor University.
Before moving to Duke Divinity School, he taught at Houston Baptist University for ten years, which is where he crossed paths with our host, David Capes.
Pilgrims LettersDr. Freeman has written an important book entitled Pilgrim Letters: Instruction in the Basic Teaching of Christ (Fortress Press, 2021).
It grows out of a concern he has for pastors, parents, and church leaders who are struggling to accomplish the Great Commission (Matt 28:19-20).
Not the going part. Not the baptizing part. But the “teaching them to observe all I [Jesus] have commanded you” part.
Making Christians: What is the big idea? Curtis is interested in recovering the ancient practice of catechism.
That is, teaching and training believers on their journey to baptism and living honestly out of that event.
He is interested in the basic idea: what does it mean to follow Jesus? Or what does it mean to become a Christian?
Starting with Hebrews 6:1-2, Dr. Freeman explains six principles that are essential to discipleship. You might be surprised what they are
Pilgrims Letters: What are people saying about the book? Here is what Dr. David Lyle Jeffrey, Distinguished Senior Fellow at Baylor Institute for Studies in Religion, has to say about the book:
“Curtis Freeman has composed a wonderful book of basic Christian teaching that is timely, accessible and gracious.
It is timely because free church people are at last beginning to realize how much has been lost by abandoning older classics of instruction and need something to fill the gap.
It is highly accessible, written not to impress academics, but without condescension, in prose an intelligent child of ten can understand.
It is gracious in the author’s humble and loving tone, his rich but distilled wisdom blessedly free of self-righteousness.
This book will be a godsend for parents, grandparents and even pastors.”
And be sure to stick around for a nugget of wisdom from Dr. Curtis Freeman.
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Episode 125: Deconstructing Evil with Ingrid Faro“Deconstructing Evil” is the title to a lecture delivered by Ingrid Faro at the Lanier Theological Library 20-22 January 2023.
And, Dr. Faro had been at the library a year earlier on the panel during a lecture weekend featuring Dr. Michael Lloyd. Links to those videos are in the show notes below.
Who is Ingrid Faro? Ingrid Faro is a Visiting Professor of Old Testament in Northern Seminary in Lisle, IL. Prior to that she was the Academic Dean of the School.
In addition, she has a Masters in Nutrition and for a time taught courses in nutrition in college, but then she pursued a masters and PhD from Trinity Evangelical Theological Seminary.
She entered those years of study after some deep, personal trauma in order to find answers to whether or not God was actually good.
This study took her into the book of Genesis to consider the source and depth of evil. She was intent on deconstructing evil.
To see Mark Lanier’s interview of Ingrid click here.
Deconstructing EvilDr. Faro wrote a book from her studies: Evil in Genesis: A Contextual Analysis of Hebrew Lexemes for Evil in the Book of Genesis (Lexham Press, 2021).
It is a book that examines the various words and meanings for evil in the Scriptures with particular focus upon Genesis.
Through these studies, she is intent on understanding the language of evil, its source, and then deconstructing evil so that its power over humans is lessened.
What scholars say
Here is what Andrew T. Abernethy, associate professor of Old Testament, Wheaton College, says about her work:
Dr. Ingrid Faro offers us a treasure trove of insight into evil in Genesis!
Faro lays the essential groundwork for a biblical theology of good and evil and does not shy away from the ethical and theological implications of her study.
From insight into how evil correlates with perception and how prominent good and evil are across Genesis, I had many moments of illumination while reading this volume. Highly recommended!
The Stone Chapel PodcastThe Stone Chapel Podcast is a podcast of the friends and staff of the Lanier Theological Library in Houston, TX.
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- Being God’s Image: Why Creation Still Matters, With C. J. ImesWho is author Carmen Joy Imes?Carmen Joy Imes has her PhD from Wheaton College. She is an associate professor of Old Testament at Biola University.
In addition to today’s book, she is the author of Bearing God’s Name: Why Sinai Still Matters and Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends.
In 2021 she joined David Capes on “The Stone Chapel Podcast” (Episode 48) to talk about her first book, Bearing God’s Name: Why Sinai Still Matters.
As you might imagine, her first book made a big splash as she took us back to the original meaning of Sinai and its directive not to lift up God’s name in vain.
Today we talk about what it means to be God’s image.Being God’s Image: Why Creation Still Matters is published by InterVarsity.
In today’s podcast she talks about the book’s central idea in Genesis 1:26-28.
What does it mean that human beings, male and female, are made in God’s image?
In fact, she challenges the translation of a little Hebrew preposition, most often translated ‘in.’
Imes makes a compelling case that the point is that human beings are made AS God’s image.
You see, for centuries theologians have tried to sort out what is it about humans that is “in God’s image.”
Is it our ability to think rationally? Our creativity? Our ability to be in relationship with God? Imes thinks these are all the wrong questions.
So, take a bit of time (about 18 minutes) and see what you think of her case.
What scholars say about Being God’s Image: Why Creation MattersThis is what Amy Peeler, associate professor of New Testament at Wheaton College and Graduate School, has to say about the book:
“Because of Carmen Imes’s warm and inviting prose, readers might not initially realize what a biblical narrative tour de force they receive in this book.
From Genesis to Revelation, creation to new creation, Imes leaves no major challenging question unaddressed as she explores the central assertion that all humans are made in God’s image.
A wise and able guide, Imes brings clarity, encouragement, and challenge herself as well as introducing numerous other guides so readers can press deeper.
Along with Bearing God’s Name, Being God’s Image will stand as an influential Christian theology of creational flourishing.”
An Earlier Podcast with ImesTo hear Carmen’s earlier podcast click here:
To hear Carmen’s discussion about one of the top ten commandments (Exodus 20:6), click here.
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Episode 123 Foretaste of the FutureForetaste of the Future provides Dean Flemming’s readers with a well written, clear explanation of Revelation interpreted from a missional perspective.
So what is a missional reading of Scripture? You’ll be in the know, once you’ve listened to the podcast!
Who is Dean Flemming?Dean Flemming got his PhD, from the University of Aberdeen. He is currently emeritus professor of New Testament and Missions at Mid-America Nazarene University in Kansas.
He joins David Capes today on “The Stone Chapel” podcast. He’s been an author, a teacher, and a cross-cultural missionary.
He’s taught in Japan, Europe, and the Philippines and lectured all around the world.
Foretaste of the Future-The BookDr. Flemming has written an important book: Foretaste of the Future: Reading Revelation in Light of God’s Mission(InterVarsity, 2022).
Through much of his life, Dean read Revelation through a prediction lens, expecting it to forecast the future.
But after finding that way of reading problematic, he began reading it through a missional lens. In other words, as a book intended to shape the church to become a foretaste of the future.
What scholars are saying about Foretaste of the Future-Here is what Dr. Nijay Gupta, professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary, says about the book.
“Two common and problematic reactions to the book of Revelation are repulsion (Why is God so wrathful?) and unhealthy fascination (What is God’s eschatological schedule?).
Dean Flemming proposes a missional approach to Revelation that focuses on God’s gospel mission, the grace and power of Jesus Christ, and the opportunity for the church to be faithful and resilient witnesses to the good work of God that can triumph over evil in our world.
Flemming approaches this theology of Revelation with clarity, humility, wisdom, and hope. If you have ever put Revelation at a distance because of its oddness, Flemming just might turn this into one of your favorite biblical books after all.”
More on Dean FlemmingClick here to learn much more about the work of Dean Flemming.
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Happy Xmas!Episode 122 Happy Xmas
A different kind of podcast“Happy Xmas” is a different kind of podcast for us. First, it comes during the 2022 Christmas holiday season while things are a bit more laid back.
Second, David Capes himself, our host, does today’s episode as a solo podcast.
Expect our next Stone Chapel podcast in early 2023.
Is there a war on Christmas?For decades now people have been talking about “a war on Christmas” by seculars who love the holiday but not its original meaning.
Whether it is the greeting “Happy Holidays” at a big-box store or legal action to remove nativity scenes from public properties, many believers consider these actions a deliberate attempt to keep the holiday but not the holy-day.
Is Xmas okay?So is the word “Xmas” an attempt to take “Christ” out of “Christmas.” What’s the story with that? David Capes tackles this question in this podcast.
The answer may surprise you. There is actually a long history tied to the expression.
The letter X or CBefore you listen ask yourself this: why is it “X-mas” and not “C-mas.”
The letter “X” (eks), the 24th letter of the English alphabet, is not in the word “Christmas.”
Normally, abbreviations have a letter from the word it shortens. Now some of these come from other languages like Latin.
“Etc,” for example, abbreviates the Latin et cetera (and the rest). RSVP (Please reply) comes from the French (répondez s’il vous plait).”
In chat today we use a lot of abbreviations (LMK = let me know; asap = as soon as possible).
The point is abbreviations typically have letters consistent with what is being abbreviated.
So why is “Christmas” abbreviated “Xmas.”
That is what we are here to find out.
Here are more resources on the topic.To read more about it and see some stunning examples from history go to David’s blog, “A Word in Edgewise”: https://davidbcapes.com/2017/12/08/xmas-is-it-taking-christ-out-of-christmas-3/
A Show of FaithFor nearly 20 years David Capes has co-hosted an award-winning radio show on a “secular” channel in Houston, the nation’s fourth largest radio market.
The show is called “A Show of Faith,” and it airs weekly on AM 1070 the Answer.
His other hosts include Rabbi Stuart Federow, Father Mario Arroyo, and a millennial budding-theologian, Rudy (Rudolfo) Kong.
For more great information from David Capes, check out his website here.
Want some great Xmas gifts for others or even yourself? Check out these books by David!
Thanks to John Lennox and Yoko Ono for some memorable music!
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Episode 121 Apologetics on Mission with Kristen DavisWho is Kristen DavisKristen Davis co-founded Apologetics on Mission with Ben Clifton. She has been teaching apologetics since 2010.
After a period of nominal Christianity and falling away from the faith in college, Kristen came back to the faith through academic pursuits.
She loved studying the Bible, even though she was not convinced it was true.
Next she went on to earn a master’s degree in Christian Apologetics.
Today she continues to pursue a PhD in Philosophy of Religion from Southern Evangelical Seminary.
Artificial IntelligenceKristen is writing her thesis on Artificial Intelligence.
There is a thought among many that if human beings can create artificial intelligence to do everything a human does, it proves Darwinian evolution is true.
So there is no need to postulate the existence of a Creator. Kristen is working to disprove this claim.
Bi-vocationalAs a bi-vocational apologist, Kristen works with a financial tech company, doing systems integration.
She runs a software development team and makes her home in Florida.
How Apologetics on Mission beganIndependently of one another, Kristen and a friend started teaching apologetics in Africa.
They both realized that there was hunger around the world for this kind of training.
Many peoples lack resources and access to our finest courses and universities. So they joined forces to take training in apologetics around the world.
They are just beginning and are currently working in East Africa among Rwandans, Kenyans, and Ugandans.
Their goal is to create self-sustaining apologetics communities around the world.
Special concerns of AfricansMany of the doubts, questions, and concerns among Africans are similar to those we have in the west.
But many concerns are unique to Africa. One such concern is the dominance of the prosperity gospel and is one particularly difficult challenge facing churches in the majority world.
For more information about Kristen and her mission, see
www.apologeticsonmission.org
More resourcesTo watch Kristen on a panel discussion at Lanier Theological Library click here.
See the accompanying lecture by Mark Lanier, Atheism on Trial, click here.
To listen to a previous podcast with John Lennox on Artificial Intelligence, click here.
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Episode 120 Electric Jesus with Chris White“Electric Jesus” is a movie directed by Chris White, a filmmaker (screenwriter and director) who makes his home in sunny South Carolina.
It is a funny, moving adventure, a nostalgic look at the place of contemporary Christian music in the 1980s (released Nov 2021).
Who is Chris White?Chris is a Gen-Xer who earned a degree in theater from Furman University. He has been creating stories and telling stories his entire life.
He is married to Emily, and they have three children who are in their 20s. Chris and Emily work together to develop film projects, mostly in the genre of narrative feature.
Art has a way of speaking into our lives. It can communicate truth and worldview in unique ways. Filmmakers are some of the story tellers of our time.
Chris and Emily do not always make faith-based films, but their faith makes it into their films.
The Movie Electric Jesus“Electric Jesus” is a coming-of-age rock ‘n’ roll story of a Christian band known as “3:16” (after John 3:16). The young men in the band are not sinister, stupid, or superheroes. They are talented teenagers, goofy and weird, rough around the edges. Here’s more about the movie.
https://linktr.ee/electricjesus
Jesus Music“Jesus music,” as it was known in the early days, was centralized in southern California. Converted hippies had their guitars and drums.
Music was a natural outgrowth of that movement. Often the music they created was edgy, but the gospel reshaped the lyrical content of their songs. By the 1980s contemporary Christian music had become an industry in itself.
Interestingly, rock ‘n’ roll is an outgrowth of blues, gospel, and jazz. Sister Rosetta Tharpe, an African American guitarist and performer, was one of its pioneers.
Chris and Emily are on to their next project, a film about making peace with your past. Something we all need to do.
We’re grateful to Chris for stopping by to talk about his art and his films. We look forward to seeing what they come up with next.
Look for “Electric Jesus” on a variety of streaming services. And share it with a friend.
More about ChrisStick around for a nugget of wisdom from Chris at the end of the podcast.
Read about Chris and Electric Jesus on IMDb here.
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Am I Just My Brain? (2019) is a book by Sharon Dirckx dealing with an ancient and modern question. Are we more than our brains? Are humans self-aware only because of neuro-chemical reactions or electrical activity or are we something more?
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Adam Miglio stopped by to talk about his newest book: The Gilgamesh Epic in Genesis 1-11: Peering into the Deep. The story is about a king from Uruk and his epic journeys. It's one of the most widely read and generously preserved stories of the ancient world.
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Darrell made a conscious decision a few years ago to spend more time thinking, researching, and writing about cultural intelligence. He is convinced that a person cannot lead if they do not know what is happening around. He addresses a number of the critical issues of the day: racism, abortion, transgenderism, etc.
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The Oxford Centre for Christian Apologetics (OCCA) is directed by Charlie Styles who describes the mission as twofold: to engage the world and equip the church. It is not just an academic centre, but it exists to listen to the best academic voices and tries to popularize them without simplifying too much.
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George Whitefield College is led by its Principal, Mark Dickson. It is set on the coast in a beautiful part of Africa, not far from Cape Town. David Capes had the opportunity to teach a two week intensive, Honours-level course there in fall 2022.
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Spurgeon’s College was established 175 years ago in London by young Charles Spurgeon. Their mission is to train people in knowledge of the Bible, to preach, and be ministers and leaders.
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Cathy McDowell and Phil Towner discuss the rewards of learning Greek and Hebrew because some of the richness of the Greek New Testament and Hebrew Old Testament are hidden in translation.
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'15 New Testament Words of Life: A New Testament Theology for Real Life' is Nijay Gupta’s most recent book. He joins David Capes to talk about it on “The Stone Chapel Podcast.” Dr. Gupta is a New Testament Professor at Northern Seminary in Lyle, IL.
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Danny Carroll is an expert in the Hebrew Prophets. He’s thought deeply and written significantly about them for years. In this podcast he discusses his new book, The Lord Roars: Recovering the Prophetic Voice for Today.
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Dr. Hoffmeier is a renown Old Testament scholar and field archaeologist. In this book "The Prophets of Israel", he explores the non-writing and writing prophets of the Old Testament against their cultural backdrop.
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Mark Lanier stops by to talk about his new book, Atheism on Trial: A Lawyer Examines the Case for Unbelief. Lanier is one of the top trial attorneys in the nation. He and wife Becky founded the Lanier Theological Library. Today, Lanier Foundation governs the mission and practices of this ministry.
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Ed Stetzer, Director of Wheaton College Billy Graham Center joins David Capes on The Stone Chapel Podcast to talk about his concerns for the future of the evangelical church and its cultural engagement with western culture
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Dr. Ida Glaser, Director of the Oxford Center for Muslim-Christian Studies in Houston, joins David Capes to talk about a new commentary she has just co-authored with her colleague, Anwarul Azad. It is entitled Genesis 1-11: Bible Commentaries from Muslim Contexts.
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John Lennox, retired Professor of Mathematics at Univ of Oxford, joins David Capes to talk about his book, 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity.
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Cory Marsh, talks with David Capes about his book, 'A Primer on Biblical Literacy'. Dr. Marsh is a Professor of New Testament at Southern California Seminary.
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Joshua Fitzhugh, executive director of the Myrtlefield Trust (Northern Ireland), joins David Capes on The Stone Chapel to talk about his mentor, David Gooding, and his work at The Myrtylefield Trust and Myrtlefield House
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https://www.laniertheologicallibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/TSC_103-The-Early-High-Christology-Club-final.mp3 The Early High Christology Club with Carey Newman The Early High Christology Club (EHCC) was a loose association of scholars from various backgrounds and different religious traditions. They all became convinced that the early circles of the Jesus movement regarded their Lord as having “high” or divine status. Carey Newman, executive editor at Fortress Press, joins David Capes on “The Stone Chapel Podcast” to talk about the beginning and contribution of the “club” to modern scholarship. Both Capes and Newman were founding members of the club, and unfortunately, they are he only surviving members. Over the roughly 25 years the club “met,” it boasted some of the most significant voices in New Testament Studies: Larry Hurtado, Alan Segal, Donald Juel, Martin Hengel, N. T. Wright, Richard Hays and a host of others. As an informal club, it had no membership. But scholars who heard of the group wanted to become members and own one of the coveted coffee mugs produced by Baylor University Press. To be a member, a scholar needed to have written books or articles making the case that the evidence demonstrates that Jesus is worshiped from early moments of the movement and set in such close association with God that he could properly be referred to as divine. After relating the “founding myth” of the organization in the mid-1990s Carey Newman situates the club within the stream of scholarship. Some regard the worship of Jesus to be a later development in the first century (60-70 years after the execution of Jesus). Others think it happened much later (hundreds of years). But members of the EHCC generally make the case that historically it arose for various reasons within the first decade of the movement. Several Early High Christology Club members have lectured at the Lanier Library: Larry Hurtado, Richard Hays, and N. T. Wright. Among the special collections, the library has the libraries of two of the founding members: Alan Segal and Larry Hurtado. It also houses many of the books of Peter Davids and David Capes, two key members. The late Larry Hurtado’s blog is a good source of information about the club as well as all things New Testament: https://larryhurtado.wordpress.com To hear Larry Hurtado’s lecture at the LTL, click here. TSC xxx The Early High Christology Club with Carey Newman The Early High Christology Club (EHCC) was a loose association of scholars from various backgrounds and different religious traditions ,all of whom became convinced that the early circles of the Jesus movement regarded their Lord as having “high” or divine status. Carey Newman, executive editor at Fortress Press, joins David Capes on “The Stone Chapel Podcast” to talk about the beginning and contribution of the “club” to modern scholarship. Both Capes and Newman were founding members of the club, and unfortunately, they are he only surviving members. Over the roughly 25 years the club “met,” it boasted some of the most significant voices in New Testament Studies: Larry Hurtado, Alan Segal, Donald Juel, Martin Hengel, N. T. Wright, Richard Hays and a host of others. As an informal club, it had no membership. But scholars […]
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Christian Askeland, senior researcher at the Museum of the Bible, demonstrated that the so-called Gospel of Jesus’ Wife fragment was a forgery.
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Book Aid is a UK charitable trust has been around 35 years and provides quality Christian books at “affordable, local prices” in the United Kingdom as well as countries in Africa.
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https://www.laniertheologicallibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/TSC_100-Revelation-through-Old-Testament-Eyes-with-Tremper-Longman-III-final.mp3 Today we discuss the book Revelation Through Old Testament Eyes. Tremper Longman III joins David Capes to talk about his book, Revelation through Old Testament Eyes (Kregel Academic 2022). Although Dr. Longman is an Old Testament expert, he is the right person to take on the last book of the New Testament. Revelation is “chocked full” of biblical, micro-allusions. Dr. Longman’s book is part of a new series of biblical and theological commentaries by Kregel, edited by Andy LePeau. Books such as Ezekiel, Daniel, and Zechariah provide a strong background to John’s Revelation. The Apocalypse, as it is also called, orbits around many of the same themes as Daniel. Jewish believers at the time of these books were persecuted and marginalized. It looked as if evil was in control; but the big takeaway from Daniel and Revelation is that the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is in control. Though God’s authority is veiled for now; in the future it will be revealed. It is a book relevant for today as many Jesus followers feel increasingly marginalized in secular society. In particular, Tremper discusses two passages related to the second coming: Revelation 1 and Revelation 19. Both are full of imagery derived from the Old Testament. Anyone with Old Testament eyes could see it and hear it! That is the point of the series. If we knew the Old Testament well, how would that help us read these New Testament books better. What insight would we have that may not be apparent otherwise? Though there are only a few quotations of the Hebrew Bible in Revelation, nearly every verse has a symbol, an image, a reference to these earlier books. This is where understanding Old Testament references would really make a difference. In an earlier podcast Dr. Capes talked with Andy LePeau regarding his book, Mark through Old Testament Eyes (Kregel Academic). This is a part of the same “Old Testament Eyes” series. You can hear that podcast (20 minutes) here. https://www.laniertheologicallibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/TSC_063-Mark-through-OT-Eyes-Capes-LePeau-fin.mp3 Subscribe to all of these short, succinct theological and biblical podcast episodes. They cover a wide range of disciplines with scholars and theologians across the globe in a friendly and informative Q and A.
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Dr. Charlesworth talks with David Capes about how material culture, specifically the Dead Sea Scrolls, enlightens our understanding of Jesus and the Gospels.
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David Capes and Steve Walton discuss the connections between the books of Luke and Acts.
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Rodney Reeves and David Capes discuss the meaning and application of spirituality in the writings of John.
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N. T. Wright discusses Romans 8, and how it leads us through the dark valley. How does it shine a light on suffering, the pandemic and the groaning of creation?
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Dr. Randy Richards joins David Capes to discuss how culture influences the way we understand the Bible.
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William D. "Bill" Mounce joins David Capes on "The Stone Chapel Podcasts" to talk about his new book. Bill wrote his book for 17 year olds and their parents, because they will face questions about the truthfulness of the Bible.
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Steve Ortiz directs the Lanier Center for Archaeology at Lipscomb University. He joins David Capes to talk about his many adventures in digging up Egypt and Israel.
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Professor Dan Wallace of The Center For The Study of New Testament Manuscripts joins David Capes to discuss his work with early Christian manuscripts.
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Principal Michael Lloyd joins David Capes on "The Stone Chapel Podcast." Join us as we talk about Wycliffe Hall of Oxford University, our new academic partner in the UK and at Yarnton Manor.
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Immigration has been part of the human story, from the beginning. The the Bible demonstrates great sympathy and compassion to those dispossessed by violence, depravation, war, and conquest. Dr. Carroll invites us to hear what God’s Word has to say about this very common human problem.
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Dr. Craig is one of the foremost apologists in the world. He is a philosophical theologian. He also runs a very effective web presence called Reasonable Faith.
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David Capes interviews Scott Stripling, Part 2
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David Capes interviews Scott Stripling, Part 1
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Episode 084 How Scripture Interprets Scripture with Michael Graves
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David Capes interviews Mark Lanier on the expansion of the Lanier Theological LIbrary and Learning Center to Yarnton, in Oxford!
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David Capes interviews Jeannine Brown on her book The Gospels as Stories .
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TSC_083 The Shroud of Turin, Nora Creech What do you think of The Shroud of Turin? Is a medieval forgery? Or is it the burial shroud of Jesus of Nazareth? Nora Creech is a wife, a mother and an expert on the shroud. She has studied it, both as an object of history and as an object of devotion. She came to the Lanier Theological Library to talk with David Capes about its history and some of the scientific work done on the shroud in the last fifty years. She travels around the country to talk about it with congregations and audiences curious about this relic from the past. The National Museum of Funeral History in Houston will have a certified replica of the shroud on permanent display in 2023. It is hard to see in Turin, Italy for it is only on display there every twenty-five years. Talk about being in the right place at the right time! To check out the website for the National Museum of Funeral History, go to https://www.nmfh.org.
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David Capes interviews Nora Creech on the Shroud of Turin.
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David Capes welcomes David Moore to “The Stone Chapel Podcasts”. David is an educator, speaker, and writer, and he came to discuss his recent book, Stuck in the Present: How History Frees and Forms Christians.
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Author & speaker, Dallas Louis, stops by the Lanier Theological Library to talk with David Capes about her book, Why Some Animals Eat Their Young: A Survivor’s Guide to Motherhood.
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David Capes welcomes the leadership of The Text and Canon Institute to the Lanier Theological Library and “The Stone Chapel Podcast.”
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Dr. Lloyd has spent much of his intellectual life exploring the problem of evil; so much so that his students sometimes call him “Dr. Evil.” In his lecture he points us to what we can learn from Jesus about evil and suffering.
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Nathan Lovell, lecturer in Old Testament and Hebrew at George Whitfield College in Cape Town, South Africa. He joins David Capes to talk about his book, The Book of Kings and Exilic Identity: 1 and 2 Kings as a Work of Political Historiography (T. & T. Clark).
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Dr. Christine Galib is a reader, a writer, an educator, and an entrepreneur. Perhaps more importantly, she is a seeker of Truth. She talks with David Capes about her new book, Parables from the Pandemic: Holding onto Hope in a Hurting World.
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Vuyani Sindo is Lecturer in Biblical Studies and head of the Biblical Studies department at George Whitefield College in Cape Town, South Africa. Most leadership studies, Sindo argues, focus the leader him/herself). Paul instead makes leadership theocentric, that is, all about God. As more and more church leaders fail—often in public ways—Sindo believes that Christ-followers should identify with Christ and not their leaders.
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Steven Runge has had an interesting career. He earned his PhD at the University of Stellenbosch and is considered widely an expert in biblical studies, particularly discourse analysis. Recently, he started a website called everydayexegesis.com which aims to help people study the Bible more effectively for their everyday lives.
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Dr. Michael (Mike) Mantel serves as the CEO and president of Living Water International, a global organization involved in integral mission in 18 countries., the author of Thirsting for Living Water (InterVarsity Press, 2021).
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Lynn Cohick serves as provost and dean of academic affairs at Northern Seminary in Chicagoland. She joins David Capes on The Stone Chapel podcast to talk about her spiritual journey and calling.
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Bill Shiell, president of Northern Seminary in Lisle, IL, rehearses with David Capes his path to become president of Northern Seminary. He talks about the unique niche that Northern Seminary occupies in the world of theological education.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Phil Keaggy <- Back to Episodes Phil Keaggy, Keaggy's Garage Legendary guitarist, Phil Keaggy, joins David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” to share a bit of his life’s story and to sing Happy Birthday to Mark Lanier. Mark and Becky have been friends with Phil and his sweet wife, Bernadette, for many years. As anyone who has followed “Biblical Literacy” knows, Mark frequently writes fun parodies of famous songs and he turns to Phil to record them. For more information about Phil and his music go to www.philkeaggy.com.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Dr. Daniel Master <- Back to Episodes Daniel Master, Tel Shimron Daniel Master (PhD, Harvard University), Professor of Archaeology at Wheaton College, talks with David Capes about how he became an archaeologist. He has spent much of his career digging up, processing, and writing archaeological reports on Ashkelon. In recent days he and his dig partners from various institutions have turned their trowels to Tel Shimron, a large archaeological site just north of the Jezreel Valley about 8 miles west of Nazareth. Despite Covid-19, the excavation had a full season in 2021. If you want more information about Tel Shimron, check out the website: www.telshimronexcavations.com. Dr. Master is always looking for volunteers. If you’ve ever wanted to try your hand at archaeology, why not spent three or six weeks in Israel next summer? It’s hard work, but it’s worth it!
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Dr. Scott Callaham <- Back to Episodes Scott Callaham, Learning Aramaic Scott Callaham, Lecturer in Old Testament at the Baptist Theological Seminary in Singapore, is a friend of the Lanier Theological Library. He has spent a good bit of time in the library and with our staff as he has been working on his primer for biblical Aramaic entitled Biblical Aramaic for Biblical Interpreters (Glossahouse, 2021). While the Old Testament is mostly in Hebrew, there are sections of Genesis, Jeremiah, Ezra and Daniel written in Aramaic, a sister language to Hebrew. Dr. Callaham has come up with an ingenious way to build on one’s knowledge of Hebrew to learn another language, and he stops by to talk with David Capes about it on “The Stone Chapel.” He also has the distinction of being the first person to write a teaching grammar for Aramaic in Chinese, the language of Singapore. Soon he begins another project on www.dailydoseofaramaic.com. He talks about both projects during this 20 minute podcast. We are very proud of Scott and look forward to having him and his family back to the Lanier Theological Library.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Dr. Roche Coleman <- Back to Episodes Roche Coleman, Shame and Guilt in Psalm 32 Roche Coleman is Senior Pastor of the Impact Church in the Woodlands. He is a frequent patron at the library; in fact, he just finished his PhD at the University of Pretoria spending a good bit of time studying and writing at the Lanier Theological Library. He joins David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” to talk about his ministry and to talk about his dissertation which we think soon will become a book. Shame and guilt are “strange emotions” according to Dr. Coleman precisely because they go against the grain of the imago dei(image of God) in us. We are made for honor and dignity, yet we find shame and guilt to be a debilitating duo when it comes to our lives. Psalm 32, a Davidic psalm, is written against the backdrop of a time when the king faced soul-crushing guilt over his sin. But even as it begins in pain; it ends in joy. For those who struggle with the weight of sin, shame, and guilt, this podcast is for you.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Pam Vandewalker <- Back to Episodes Pam Vandewalker, Teeny Tykes and Tunes Pamela Vandewalker has an interesting job. She directs worship programming at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church in Marietta, GA, a worshipping community of roughly 7000 people. She is the author of many books and a composer of about 75 hymns for children. She stopped by recently to talk with David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” about her life, her battles with cancer, and how hymns fed her soul and encouraged her through the toughest battles of life. She is a strong advocate of singing and making music in the homes because it imprints on the lives of our children. Churches can and should do more to train up parents in creating music makers not just music consumers at home. To know more about this Dove Award Winner and her passion for worship and equipping a new generation of worshippers, go to www.teenytykesandtunes.com.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Timothy Dalrymple <- Back to Episodes Timothy Dalrymple, Christianity Today Dr. Timothy Dalrymple is the new CEO and Editor-in-chief of Christianity Today (CT). He has come to this position after a long and storied career as an elite gymnast, an academic, and a successful entrepreneur. In fact, everything “Tim” Dalrymple has done smacks of excellence, greatness, creativity, and devotion to God. Now in this new endeavor, he brings his many gifts to bear at a transitional moment for evangelicals in the west. Christianity Today was founded in the 1950s by Billy Graham to be a mouthpiece for evangelicalism. Through many ups and downs, the mission of CT has shifted to keep up with the changes but now, under the leadership of Dr. Dalrymple, CT is taking a new direction. He stops by to talk with David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” about his life and the new direction for the leading publication of evangelicals. To know more about Christianity Today or to become a member, go to www.christianitytoday.com.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Robert Morgan <- Back to Episodes Robert Morgan, Then Sings My Soul Robert Morgan, teaching pastor at the Donelson Fellowship in Nashville, TN, has authored more than twenty books. He lectured at the Stone Chapel on August 21, 2021. While at the library, he talked with David Capes on “The Stone Chapel Podcasts” about his series, Then Sings My Soul published by Thomas Nelson,, particularly the third volume in that series. Morgan has been dubbed “the dean of American hymnody” by our own Dr. Capes and is doing more than anyone we know to promote the singing of music old and new in our churches. Older people, he says, need to sing the latest music, and young people need to sing the legacy music. Rather than segregating traditional and contemporary services, which effectively creates different congregations, Morgan advocates for intergenerational worship and training young and old alike to appreciate the music of other generations.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Andy LePeau <- Back to Episodes Andy LePeau, Mark through Old Testament Eyes Andy LePeau has been in academic publishing for many years with InterVarsity Press. He is also a talented writer and the author of a new book with Kregel Academic entitled Mark through Old Testament Eyes. He serves as series editor for this new background and application commentary called “Through Old Testament Eyes” and stops by to talk with David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” about the series and about some of the things he discovered about Mark’s Gospel after teaching it for over fifteen years. The book begins: “The New Testament writers were Old Testament people.” He goes on to demonstrate the many ways the Old Testament shaped the minds and hearts of the first Christ followers. He estimates that 90-95% of the Gospel is clarified when we understand the Old Testament view of the God and his people. It is a terrific book and an impressive series. In case you were wondering, you can find it at the Lanier Theological Library. To learn more about Andy, go to his blog “Andy Unedited”: www.andyunedited.com
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Kevin Grasso <- Back to Episodes Kevin Grasso, Biblingo.org Kevin Grasso and Nick Messmer are co-founders of Biblingo.org, a website dedicated to helping people learn and retain Greek and Hebrew. Kevin stopped by to talk with David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” regarding their project and how their approach differs from other programs or website. The bottom line is this: they draw from some of the best practices and literature on second language acquisition. Spend just 30 minutes a day and you will find yourself learning Greek or Hebrew and retaining it in ways you had not before. Even 15 minutes a day will help you down the road. They encourage students not to memorize words or paradigms but internalize the language. Their innovative approach is catching on around the world. The costs to learn Greek or Hebrew with biblingo.com for one year are about ½ the costs of one credit hour at a college or university. $18 gives you complete access to learn one language for a month. And if you have already taken Greek or Hebrew, the site will help you keep up with and improve your biblical languages skills. Want to learn Greek and/or Hebrew and learn it for LIFE: www.biblingo.org
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Ida Glaser <- Back to Episodes Ida Glaser, Centre for Muslim Christian Studies, Oxford Dr. Ida Glaser, International Academic Coordinator and Founding Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Muslim-Christian Studies, joins David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” to talk about her life and the mission of the Oxford Centre she and her husband, David Coffey, established. They bring Muslims and Christians together in formal study to relate honestly, think rigorously, and explore our respective traditions and religious texts. They have been involved with scholars, research, and public education for the last 12 years. Their website is https://www.cmcsoxford.org.uk. In 2020 they established a center in Houston which had many challenges during the Covid pandemic. Still they have made some amazing connections and established key relationships. Their Houston website is: https://www.cmcshouston.org. Be sure to pay careful attention to the story she tells about reading part of the Abraham story with rabbis and Muslims. They have many on-line resources which are free and will deepen your understanding of your faith and the faiths of others.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Vincent Bacote <- Back to Episodes Vincent Bacote, Reckoning with Race Dr. Vince Bacote, Associate Professor of Theology and Director of the Center for Applied Christian Ethics at Wheaton College, joins David Capes to talk about his new book, Reckoning with Race and Performing the Good News: In Search of a Better Evangelical Theology (Brill, 2020). Dr. Bacote is interested in rehabilitating the evangelical movement when it comes to how racial minorities fit into its life. For too long the good news, while central to evangelical theology and life, has not always been good for minorities. The polarization now in the west is due in large part because majorities and minorities are speaking past each another rather than finding a place at the table for one another. According to Bacote, theology and ethics belong together and are not separate spheres of life and thought. After discussing the meaning of “racism” and “critical race theory,” Bacote offers concrete proposals for what serious Christians and a thoughtful church can do next. To learn more about Dr. Vince Bacote and his work, go to his website www.vincentbacote.com.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Steve Stewart <- Back to Episodes Steve Stewart, The Beatitudes for a Time of Crisis Steve Stewart—pastor, church leader, and founder of Impact Nations—joined David Capes to talk about God’s work in his life and Impact Nations, an international organization dedicated to the whole gospel which means impacting whole persons, spiritually, economically, educationally and socially. Out of the Covid pandemic and the racial, political predicaments washing over us, Steve has written a terrific book entitled The Beatitudes for a Time of Crisis (Impact Nations Publishing, 2020). Like many others Steve has found solace, direction and inspiration in that first part of Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount. Steve talks with David about how one beatitude leads to the next, and how the gospel is not just about who’s going to heaven? It is about the whole person and what God intends for us here and now. That is why Steve says the beatitudes and the Sermon on the Mount deal with Kingdom citizens doing the right thing for the right reason. The beatitudes are both an invitation to share in God’s life and a paradox. Be sure to get his book and read it carefully. If you want to know more about Steve’s work at Impact Nations, you can do so at www.impactnations.com.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes John Peckham <- Back to Episodes John Peckham, Divine Attributes Dr. John Peckham, professor of theology and Christian philosophy at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan, is a fine young scholar, and he has written a new book entitled, Divine Attributes: Knowing the Covenantal God of Scripture (Baker Academic, 2021). He joins David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” to talk about his book which is a great contribution to knowing the God whom the church adores and worships. Thoroughly immersed in Scripture, Peckham’s theology of God tackles tough questions and comes up with sobering and clear answers. Does God change? Does God have emotions? Does God know everything, including the future? Is God all-powerful? Does everything that happens fit into God’s will? Is God entirely good and loving? How can God be one and yet three persons? This is a superb book, and Capes and Peckham had a great conversation.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Scott Sager <- Back to Episodes Scott Sager .Scott Sager, Vice President for Church Services and a member of the Bible faculty at Lipscomb University, stopped by to talk about his new book, Jesus in Isolation: Lazarus, Viruses, and Us (Wipf & Stock, 2021) on “The Stone Chapel.” Although the book project began years before Covid 19 hit, it was the virus itself and subsequent isolation that sharpened Sager’s thinking about the book. Inspired by G. K. Chesterton, C. S. Lewis, and N. T. Wright in various ways, Scott takes us through a sustained meditation on the hinge episode in John’s Gospel, the resurrection of Lazarus. Punctuated with poetry throughout, Sager makes a cogent case for how the church needs poets in a day when soundbytes, Twitter and social media dominate the headlines. It is arranged so that people can use it as a study guide for 12 weeks in a small group.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Clint Burnett <- Back to Episodes Clint Burnett Clint Burnett (PhD, Boston College) joined David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” to talk about his new book Interpreting the New Testament through Inscriptions (Hendrickson Academic, 2020). Dr. Burnett discusses what inscriptions are, what they tell us about the world of the New Testament, and how scholars go about dating them to the period. There are a lot of places where the New Testament and inscriptions come together and Burnett covers them in his book. Inscriptions related: to the title “Lord;” ancient banquets; imperial oaths and decrees from Caesar; benefactors/benefactresses and overseers; and—everyone’s favorite—calculating numbers like 666 as the number of a man in Revelation. There are over half a million inscriptions so far discovered in the ancient world and they tell us about the lives of the average individual.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Sandra Richter <- Back to Episodes Sandra Richter Sandra (‘Sandy’) Richter (PhD, Harvard) joined David Capes by Zoom to talk about her 2020 book The Stewards of Eden: What Scripture Says about the Environment and Why It Matters (IVP, 2020). David and Sandy’s paths have crossed a number of times in meetings of Scripture scholars. Much of what Sandy has thought and written about during her career has to do with creation and the fall (Genesis 1-3). This book is no different, but it takes Sandy’s concerns about the environment to a new level. Sandy hopes to awaken the sleeping giant, that is, the passion, energy and focus of evangelical Christians and churches, to understand and act consistently with Scripture and the gospel when it comes to the environment. She has written what amounts to a biblical theology of environmental stewardship that demands a response. She wants to move evangelicals past the politics to a courageous moral stance when it comes to God’s earth and everything in it.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Todd Still <- Back to Episodes Todd Still, George W. Truett Theological Seminary Todd Still (PhD, Univ of Glasgow) joins David Capes to talk about the mission of George W. Truett Theological Seminary at Baylor University. Since becoming the dean, Todd Still has watched the numbers of students and the reach of the seminary expand. While other seminaries are contracting and facing financial difficulties, Truett Seminary is growing and raising more and more scholarship money for its students. Since its founding in 1991, the seminary has trained 1800 graduates, most of whom are serving in churches in America and around the world. In days to come, you will likely see Truett Seminary staff and faculty more and more present at the library; but that’s another podcast. If you’d like to study at Truett or if you know someone who would, contact Dr. Todd Still (Todd_Still@baylor.edu).
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Gib Allen <- Back to Episodes Gib Allen, The Moses Way Dr. Gib Allen joins David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” to discuss his new book The Moses Way: A Pastor-Directed Model to Address Conflict (2020). “Gib” is a friend and patron of the Lanier Theological Library and has pastored churches for nearly 40 years in Arkansas and Texas. Not long after beginning his ministry, he discovered that his seminary education had taught him little to nothing about how to deal with conflict in the church. Over time he talked with leaders, read good books and has come up with an approach any pastor or church leader can follow in order to address conflict redemptively in the church. He does this with a careful reading of how Moses dealt with conflict with the children of Israel on the journey to the Promised Land. Whether you are a pastor or interested layperson, the chances are good your church has faced, is facing or will face conflict serious enough to rock the foundations (21 minutes). Contact Gib Allen at www.giballen.com.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes A.J. Swoboda <- Back to Episodes A.J. Swoboda Dr. A. J. Swoboda (PhD University of Birmingham), assistant professor of Bible, theology, and world Christianity, has written a terrific book for everyone who struggles with doubt. It is called After Doubt: How to Question Your Faith without Losing It (Brazos Press, 2021). He joins David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” to discuss what motivated him to write the book and what he has learned by walking with people who wrestle with doubt for the last twenty years. Doubt and deconstruction are normal parts of the theological journey, he believes. But ultimately, the journey does not have to end in “shipwreck.” With the right guides and right disciplines, it is possible to stay on the journey with a stronger, more resilient faith. But there are no quick fixes or easy rides.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Ben Homan <- Back to Episodes Ben Homan Ben Homan, president of The Langham Partnership USA, joins David Capes to talk about the mission and history of one of the most important partnerships supporting the equipping of preachers and teachers across the world (www.langham.org). In 2020 they trained over 30,000 pastors who have never had any formal training in Bible, theology or preaching. They have helped over 300 scholars from the majority world to earn their PhDs in quality universities and seminaries and return to their countries of origins. They are active in more than 130 majority world nations (Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East). The Lanier Theological Library and Foundation are proud to join hands in this important work
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Amy Allan <- Back to Episodes Amy Allan Amy is a third year Old Testament Biblical Studies Ph.D. student at Wheaton College under the supervision of Dr. Michael Graves. Her research interests include patristic and rabbinic interpretations of Scripture, anthropomorphic language for God, Old Testament prophets, theology, literary characterization, rhetoric, and ancient Near Eastern culture. Amy completed her M.Div. at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri and is currently in the ordination discernment process at her local church. Her ministry flows from her own journey with Christ and includes advocating for the safety of abuse survivors, leading worship in multi-ethnic churches, anti-racism activism, care for the homeless, speaking in a variety of academic and ecclesial contexts, serving in programs for juvenile patients with cranio-facial anomalies, and finding creative ways to engage and honor Native American traditions.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Carmen Imes <- Back to Episodes Carmen Imes, Bearing God's Name: Why Sinai Still Matters Dr. Carmen Joy Imes, Associate Professor of Old Testament at Prairie College in Alberta, Canada, joins David Capes to talk about her book, Bearing God's Name: Why Sinai Still Matters (InterVarsity Press, 2019). While some Christian leaders want to disconnect from the Old Testament law, Dr. Imes thinks is it indispensable that we get back to Sinai in order to understand what God has been up to all along. Without understanding Israel's mission, we may miss our own. Particularly, she makes a convincing case for what it means "to take the Lord's name in vain." The story of Israel is the wilderness at Sinai is not ancient. If we take it seriously, it is our story too.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Lynn Cohick <- Back to Episodes Lynn Cohick, The Epistle to the Ephesians TSC_047 Lynn Cohick, The Epistle to the Ephesians Dr. Lynn Cohick, Provost and Dean of Academic Affairs at Northern Seminary, Chicago, IL, joins David Capes to talk about her new commentary, The Epistle to the Ephesians in The New International Commentary on the New Testament Series. After talking about her new role at Northern Seminary, she discusses some of the salient issues related to how Ephesians has been read and interpreted in church history. Dr. Cohick is a friend of the library and an accomplished scholar and education leader. To contact her please email her at LCohick@faculty.seminary.edu.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Kyle Hughes <- Back to Episodes Kyle Hughes, How the Spirit Became God Kyle Hughes has written an important book, and he joins David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” to discuss it. The book is How the Spirit Became God: The Mosaic of Early Christian Pneumatology (Cascade Books, 2020). In this book Hughes tells a compelling story of how the church came to recognize the Spirit as divine and person. With a firm grasp on relevant primary and second literature he makes the case for an early and consistent divine pneumatology arising out of how Christians over several centuries read their Scriptures, the Old and New Testaments.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Leigh McLeroy <- Back to Episodes Leigh McLeroy, The Beautiful Ache Leigh McLeroy (MA in Cultural Apologetics, Houston Baptist University), writer, speaker, ghostwriter, dog-lover, stops by to talk with David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” about her amazing book, The Beautiful Ache: Finding the God Who Satisfies When Life Does Not. Leigh is a wonderful writer who weaves together stories from life and Scripture to talk about all of our spiritual journeys. This book is for anyone whose longings do not match the reality of this world. This is “the ache” we all experience, but is a sure sign that there is something more.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Matthew Bates <- Back to Episodes Matthew Bates, Gospel Allegiance Dr. Matthew Bates, (PhD Univ of Notre Dame) is associate professor of theology at Quincy University in Quincy, IL. He is the author of several books and hosts a popular podcast along with Matt Lynch and others entitled “OnScript.” Dr. Bates joins David Capes to talk about his recent book, Gospel Allegiance: What Faith in Jesus Misses for Salvation in Christ (BrazosPress, 2019). Often the word pistis, translated most often “faith” in the New Testament, is misunderstood because our understanding of the gospel is deficient. So, what is the gospel? “Jesus is the saving king.” So, what is our response? Allegiance to the king.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Scott Harrower <- Back to Episodes Scott Harrower, God of All Comfort Dr. Scott Harrower, Associate Professor of Theology and History at Ridley College, Melbourne, Australia, has written a timely and significant book: God of All Comfort: A Trinitarian Response to the Horrors of This World (Lexham Press, 2019). Prior to his academic career, he grew up in Argentina and saw the horrors that went on there. Then he became a trauma nurse and saw deeply disturbing things. The world is full of horrors: dismemberment, assault, disease, death. How do we make it through? Dr. Harrower has written a terrific book that brings together insights from philosophy, theology, psychology and medical studies. You need to hear this! If not now, then one day.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Joshua Jipp <- Back to Episodes Joshua Jipp, Messianic Theology of the New Testament Dr. Joshua Jipp, associate professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, has written an important book entitled The Messianic Theology of the New Testament (Eerdmans, 2020). His particular focus is to survey and understand the royal messianism associated with the Davidic dynasty. He makes the point that there is no standardized, pre-existing view of the messiah at the time of Jesus; instead, there has been a robust “messianic discourse” that has been going on for hundreds of years centered on King David and his legacy.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Rob Bradshaw <- Back to Episodes Rob Bradshaw, TheologyontheWeb.org.uk Rob Bradshaw, librarian at Spurgeon’s College in south London, has been digitizing articles, journals and books for 20 year to provide people around the world access to high value theological resources. His website, www.theologyontheweb.org.uk, is a hub for a variety of websites that links pastors, students and teachers with resources in biblical studies, theology, church history and practice theology. After working in Nepal, Rob realized how deeply poverty was affecting Christians around the world. Nepalese Christian leaders who wanted to learn had no way because resources were not available. To date, he and his wife have digitized or digitised (British spelling) over 45,000 articles and hundreds of books. The work is hard, expensive and painstaking, yet Rob has a calling. He has had over two million visits to his site and seven tera-bytes of downloads. As the shadow of Covid-19 grows longer, those who have no theological library ready to hand are turning more and more to “TheologyontheWeb.”
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Andrew Abernethy <- Back to Episodes Andrew Abernethy, God's Messiah in the Old Testament Andrew Abernethy, PhD Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, is a former colleague of David Capes at Wheaton College. He is an Associate Professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College and Degree Coordinator for the Master of Arts in Biblical Exegesis. He is author of many articles, but the focus of this podcast is a book he wrote along with Dr. Gregory Goswell of Christ College in Sydney, Australia. It is entitled God’s Messiah in the Old Testament: Expectations of a Coming King (Baker Academic, 2020). While some scholars find precious little “messianism” in the Old Testament, others find it in nearly every verse. So, what is the truth? Abernethy and Goswell take a book by book approach to work through those passages that look forward to a coming messianic king. [summary]
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Anne Clements former Minister West Kingsdown Baptist Church, Kent , UK <- Back to Episodes Anne Clements, Mothers on the Margin? Anne Clements, PhD Spurgeon College (2012), has written an interesting book called Mothers on the Margin? The Significance of the Women in Matthew’s Genealogy (Pickwick Publications, 2014). At one time she was struggling with her call to ministry: some endorsed her call, others said she was violating Scripture. This launched on her an investigation of the women in the annotations of Matthew’s Genealogy: Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, the wife of Uriah (Bathsheba), and Mary, the mother of Jesus. In this podcast she talks with me from her home in Kent, UK to show how Matthew introduces these women and recalls their stories to show how the Messiah comes to include the marginalized and to make insiders out of outsiders.
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Bruce Chilton, PhD Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion Bard College <- Back to Episodes Bruce Chilton, Resurrection Logic: Dying and Rising Gods (Part 2) In part two Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Professor of Religion at Bard College (New York), continues his conversation with David Capes about elements of his book, Resurrection Logic: How Jesus’ First Followers Believed God Raised Him from the Dead (Baylor University Press, 2019). How does the resurrection of Jesus compare with ancient myths about the dying and rising gods? What does Paul say about what it means to be human? How does the Jesus’ resurrection call forth a new humanity and a new creation?
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The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Bruce Chilton, PhD Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion Bard College <- Back to Episodes Bruce Chilton, Resurrection Logic (Part 1) In part one of this podcast Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Professor of Religion at Bard College (New York), discusses his new book Resurrection Logic: How Jesus’ First Followers Believed God Raised Him from the Dead (Baylor University Press, 2019). His question is not so much “what happened?” but, how it happened and the distinctive mission the apostles followed after their vision of the risen Jesus.
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<- Back to Episodes Ben Blackwell and Randy Hatchett-Engaging Theology Ben Blackwell, Associate Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at HBU, and Randy Hatchett, Professor of Theology and Philosophy, also of HBU, have written a new book: Engaging Theology: A Biblical, Historical, and Practical Introduction (Zondervan, 2019). The book demonstrates the relevance of “engaging” theology rather than just thinking about God, the world and humanity. The authors, while seasoned, do a great job of making theology understandable. They focus on the story of scripture, doctrinal exposition, theological relevance (and reflection), and finally spiritual relevance. Recently, a film crew from Zondervan Academic filmed Ben and Randy talking about their new book in the scholar’s cottage. Look for those videos in spring or fall 2021.
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<- Back to Episodes Terry Cokenour - Ambiguity in the Apologetics of C. S. Lewis Terry Cokenour, a patron of the library, stopped by to talk with David Capes about his doctoral thesis at the London School of Theology. Here is his title: “An Invitation to Thought: Ambiguities in the Apologetics of C. S. Lewis.” Terry has been coming to the Lanier Theological Library since 2011 with a lengthy pause when he served as a missionary and church leader in Budapest, Hungary. He talks about how he came to focus his research and his spiritual heart on the writings of C. S. Lewis and to love the mystery he finds in his writings.
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<- Back to Episodes Tim Brookins - Corinthian Wisdom Tim Brookins, Associate Professor of Classics at Houston Baptist University, talks with David Capes regarding his book, Corinthian Wisdom, Stoic Philosophy, and the Ancient Economy (SNTS Monograph Series 159: Cambridge University Press, 2014. He challenges recent scholarship and makes the claim that "the wise man" of 1 Corinthians is not a person of rhetorical prowess but a philosopher with a bent toward Stoicism. They talk about the value of mirror-readings in biblical letters and the prevalence of Corinthian slogans in Paul’s letter.
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<- Back to Episodes John Behr - Reading Scripture Allegorically In part two of our podcast, Dr. John Behr (patristics professor, formerly of St. Vladimir’s Seminary, now at the University of Aberdeen) makes another provocative statement: “Unless we read the Bible allegorically, we are not reading it as Scripture.” In the early church, what they remembered about Jesus was reflected through the passion in light of Scripture, that is, the Old Testament. He ends the podcast making some recommendations about how a person might go about reading the Church Fathers.
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<- Back to Episodes John Behr We Have a Book Called 'the Book' Patristic expert, Dr. John Behr (PhD, Oxford), tells the story of how he came to the Orthodox faith. After discussing some of the differences between the Orthodox and Protestant faiths, he proposes that one difference is the problem: “we have a book called ‘The Bible’ (‘the Book’). The fact that we divide it into two parts, the Old Testament and the New Testament, means that we miss something fundamental.
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<- Back to Episodes Katya Covrett-Status of Women in Academic Publishing Katya Covrett, executive editor of Zondervan Academic, talks with David Capes about the challenges women scholars face in getting into academic publishing. The challenge is not unique to publishing in biblical studies and theology but in other disciplines as well. Zondervan has made great strides in publishing quality academic books with women as authors and editors. Still, Covrett argues, it will take strategic cooperation between institutions of higher learning and publishers to move toward balance.
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Craig Evans and Jeremiah Johnston--Scribes and Their Remains In this podcast, David Capes talks with Craig Evans, John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins at Houston Baptist University, and Jeremiah Johnston, founder and president of the Christian Thinkers Society, about their new book Scribes and Their Remains (T. & T. Clark, 2019). Scholars have a growing interest in the artifacts of early Christianity, particularly the book culture and the scribes who produced them. We discuss an Egyptian papyrus, a pre-Christian letter written by a husband to his pregnant wife announcing he will be coming home late, after she gives birth. He urges her: “If it is a boy, keep it; if it is a girl, throw it out.” Early Christians, aware of the practice, wrote against it and sought to rescue exposed children. Dr. Evans discusses his essay that deals with the longevity of ancient books. Some evidence suggests that in the book culture of early Christianity some Christian books lasted 150-200 years.
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<- Back to Episodes Michael Thomson--Wipf and Stock/Cascade, A Publishing House on the Rise Michael Thomson, acquisitions editor for Wipf & Stock/Cascade, discusses his journey into academic publishing and the unique mission Cascade/Wipf & Stock has in providing resources for pastors and academics alike. He laments the loss of Christian bookstores in colleges and communities as people buy more and more of online.
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<- Back to Episodes Margaret Diddams--Home by a Different Route: Finding Resilience in Lamentations
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<- Back to Episodes Peter Williams--Tyndale House: Past, Present, Future Dr. Peter Williams, principal of Tyndale House, Cambridge University, joined David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” to talk about the history and mission of Tyndale House at Cambridge. Since 1944 Tyndale House has served as a place where evangelical Christian scholars can find great resources, community and solace as they write their books and articles. With Covid-19, of course, there have been challenges. Listen particularly to Dr. Williams discuss the future of books now that the digital age is upon us.
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<- Back to Episodes Nijay Gupta--Paul and the Language of Faith Nijay Gupta, Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary, Chicago, IL, zoomed in with David Capes recently to talk about his book, Paul and the Language of Faith (Eerdmans Publishing, 2020). This is what Michael Bird of Ridley College (Melbourne, AUS) said about the book: “Nijay Gupta presents here the best contemporary exploration of the meaning of ‘faith’ and ‘believing’ in the Christian Bible. He leaves no stone unturned as he covers topics like faith as doctrine, virtue, allegiance, trust, obedience, and fidelity, among other things. Along the way Gupta cracks open a few hoary chestnuts like the ‘faithfulness of Christ’ and faith as a social boundary marker, always with clarity and acumen. All in all, a wonderful exposition of the meaning of faith in the biblical world.”
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<- Back to Episodes Mark Lanier-The Stone Chapel Mark Lanier joins David Capes to talk about his inspiration to build the Stone Chapel in his "backyard." He goes over several features of this beautiful structure where most of The Stone Chapel Lectures have taken place over the last decade.
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<- Back to Episodes Mark Lanier-Torah for Living Mark Lanier joins David Capes at the Lanier Theological Library to talk about his recent book, Torah for Living: Daily Prayers, Wisdom and Guidance. He discusses how he came to write the book and why he thinks Christians should read the first five books of the Bible--Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy--in their devotions. He gives some examples and whets our appetite for how God spoke and continues to speak through the Torah.
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<- Back to Episodes Mark Lanier-The Lanier Theological Library Mark Lanier, founder and president of The Lanier Theological Library, spent some time recently with David Capes in his office to talk about the history and mission of the library, The Stone Chapel (not the podcast but the real Stone Chapel), and the library foundation. This podcast originally appeared as an episode of Exegetically Speaking, a podcast of the friends and faculty of Wheaton College.
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<- Back to Episodes From Russia to Zondervan - Katya Corvette Katya Covrett, executive editor for Zondervan Academic, talks about her journey from Russia to Bible College translator to graduate student to become the face of Zondervan Academic. She discussed the history and unique mission of the press. She offers good advice for how to get published and avoid the mistakes authors make.
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<- Back to Episodes Craig Evans - A 1st Century Copy of Mark? Not so fast . . . Dr. Craig Evans, John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins at Houston Baptist University, discusses reports that scholars may have discovered a fragment of the Gospel of Mark that dates from the late 1st century. Through a good deal of hi-jinx and intrigue the fragment has recently been published. It is not late 1st century as early reports suggest, but late 2nd or early 3rd century. Still it is the earliest fragment of the Gospel of Mark we have.
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<- Back to Episodes Joseph Shulam-Jesus in the Talmud Joseph Shulam, Christian minister and Hebrew scholar who leads a messianic congregation in Jerusalem, shares how Jesus figures in the Talmud, a collection of rabbinic discussions from the 1st to the 5th centuries AD. He argues the negative reports among the rabbis actually corroborate aspects of the biblical accounts in the Gospels.
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