The Luminaries series is a collection of interviews with premier thinkers working in the theological academy and the church.
Professor John Swinton is a renowned practical theologian and the Chair in Divinity and Religious Studies at the University of Aberdeen.
On this episode, Dr. Swinton and I discuss his career prior to entering the theological academy, a theology of mental health challenges, the experience of time for those living with disabilities, and confronting the problems of both “radical evil” and “banal evil.”
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SOURCES MENTIONED:
American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil.
———. The Origins of Totalitarianism.
Hull, John M. Touching the Rock: An Experience of Blindness.
Koyama, Kosuke. Three Mile an Hour God.
Luhrmann, T. M, and Jocelyn Marrow, eds. Our Most Troubling Madness: Case Studies in Schizophrenia across Cultures.
Swinton, John. Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefullness, and Gentle Discipleship.
———. Deliver Us from Evil: A Call for Christians to Take Evil Seriously.
———. Finding Jesus in the Storm: The Spiritual Lives of Christians with Mental Health Challenges.
World Health Organization, International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems.
OUTLINE:
(02:02) – Black tea (with coffee beans), Coke Zero, and (thoughts of) Scotch
(03:30) – From nursing to the theological academy
(07:18) – Distinguishing practical theology as a subdiscipline
(10:26) – Diagnostic descriptors as experienced by diagnosed persons
(15:32) – Problematizing the DSM
(20:31) – Describing the experience of mental health challenges
(24:24) – Living with mental health diagnoses in the West
(30:12) – Advice for those living with mental health challenges
(31:45) – Advice for churches trying to welcome those with mental health challenges
(32:59) – The “temporarily able-bodied”
(35:40) – The speed of Western time and the speed of God’s time
(42:20) – Living in God’s time
(44:47) – “You’ve changed”: personal identity amidst the changes that come with disability
(51:06) – Evil according to Paul the Apostle, Susan Eastman, and Hannah Arendt
(58:57) – Resisting evil
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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