The Luminaries series is a collection of interviews with premier thinkers working in the theological academy and the church.
Fr. John Behr is the Regius Professor of Humanity at the University of Aberdeen and an esteemed scholar of the patristics, having published several translations of various Church Fathers and monographs of his own on patristic figures and patristic theology.
Here we discuss the Gospel of John, Irenaeus and Origen, and the mystery of Christ and of life in death.
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SOURCES MENTIONED:
Ashton, John. Understanding the Fourth Gospel.
Athanasius. On the Incarnation.
Behr, John. Asceticism and Anthropology in Irenaeus and Clement.
———. Irenaeus of Lyons: Identifying Christianity.
———. John the Theologian and his Paschal Gospel: A Prologue to Theology.
———. The Nicene Faith. Formation of Christian Theology 2.
———. The Way to Nicaea. Formation of Christian Theology 1.
———, and Conor Cunningham, eds. The Role of Death in Life: A Multidisciplinary Examination of the Relationship between Life and Death.
Brown, Peter. The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity.
Derrida, Jacques. The Gift of Death.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor. The Possessed.
Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality. 3 vols.
Henry, Michel. I Am the Truth: Toward a Philosophy of Christianity.
———. Incarnation: A Philosophy of the Flesh.
———. Words of Christ.
Käsemann, Ernst. The Testament of Jesus: A Study of the Gospel of John in the Light of Chapter 17.
Origen. On First Principles. Translated by John Behr.
Sanders, E. P. Paul and Palestinian Judaism: A Comparison of Patterns of Religion.
OUTLINE:
(01:31) – Diner coffee and assam/lapsang souchong tea
(02:31) – John the Theologian
(09:01) – Rediscovering modern philosophy
(10:42) – The Prologue to the Gospel of John
(18:11) – “And the Word was towards God”
(27:07) – Contemporary scholarship on Irenaeus
(30:43) – The “Great Church” and heresy
(37:30) – The body: Church fathers, Peter Brown, Foucault
(41:33) – Origen in translation
(52:11) – Death: re-thinking “it is finished”
(01:04:53) – What’s wrong with “the Bible”
(01:11:43) – Original sin and the Fall
Andrew Remington Rillera / Sacrifice and Atonement in the Bible
Sean J. McGrath / Political Eschatology
Universalism Booth, Pt. 3 / Jordan Daniel Wood / Catholic Universalism
Universalism Booth, Pt. 2 / David W. Congdon / Existential Universalism
Universalism Booth, Pt. 1 / Robin A. Parry / Evangelical Universalism
Douglas A. Campbell and Jon DePue / Liberating Paul’s Gospel from Justification Theory
L. Ann Jervis / The Apostle Paul and the Temporality of Christ
Steven E. Knepper and Ryan G. Duns, SJ / William Desmond and the Bible
JD Lyonhart / Henry More on Space and the Divine
Aimee Patterson / Severe Suffering and the Call to Compassion
Leonard Grob and John K. Roth / The Holocaust and Endangered Democracy Today
Patočka Booth, Pt. 3 / Martin Koci / Jan Patočka and Christian Theology
Patočka Booth, Pt. 2 / David Lloyd Dusenbury / Jan Patočka's Heretical Perspectives on European History
Patočka Booth, Pt. 1 / Erin Plunkett / The "Solidarity of the Shaken"
Luminaries / John Milbank / Metaphysics and Radical(ized) Orthodoxy
Nicholas Denysenko / Ukraine, Russia, and the Church’s Unholy War
Bulgakov Booth, Pt. 4 / Roberto J. De La Noval and Mark Roosien / Bulgakov the Man, Priest, and Theologian
Bulgakov Booth, Pt. 3 / Sarah Livick-Moses / Bulgakov on Sophia and Eschatological Politicism
Bulgakov Booth, Pt. 2 / Jordan Daniel Wood / Bulgakov: Alive to God, Alive to the World
Bulgakov Booth, Pt. 1 / Regula M. Zwahlen / Bulgakov and the “Revolutionary Spirit of Revelation”
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