The Grind is a series of interviews with young scholars and PhD students on the many ways of "making a way" in the theological academy, and all the trials and joys therein.
Cody Bivins-Starr is a PhD student in theological ethics at the University of Aberdeen and is writing his dissertation on a theology of madness under the direction of Dr. Brian Brock.
In this interview for our podcast series, The Grind, Cody and I talk about applying to PhD programs, dissertation research, PhD supervisors, and much more.
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Cody's academia.edu page: https://aberdeen.academia.edu/CodyBivinsStarr
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Sisters of the Road (Portland, OR): https://sistersoftheroad.org/
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SOURCES MENTIONED:
Barth, Karl. Church Dogmatics II.2: The Doctrine of God.
Brock, Brian. “Parenting as political resistance: Disability and ‘dealing with’ late-modern medicine.”
Fanon, Frantz. The Psychiatric Writings from Alienation and Freedom.
———. The Wretched of the Earth.
Foucault, Michel. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1978–1979.
———. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.
———. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason.
OUTLINE:
(01:28) – Assam tea and espresso tonic
(03:08) – From Grudem to Hauerwas to Barth and Bonhoeffer
(06:43) – Barth and political theology
(09:38) – Assemblies of God – Anglican – Mennonite
(16:36) – A theological account of madness
(23:04) – Picking a PhD program/supervisor
(30:53) – Pros and cons of PhD programs in the UK
(37:09) – Pains and joys of the PhD process
(44:08) – Reading non-theological sources
(50:45) – Mapping life post-PhD
(55:31) – Advice for prospective PhD students
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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