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The Bridging Theology Podcast connects the heart of academic scholarship to the Christian life. Hosted by an interdenominational, interdisciplinary, international team of scholars, the Bridging Theology Podcast is committed to helping listeners understand and engage with the work of leading and emerging Christian thinkers.
If you desire to have a thoughtful Christian faith, then this is a podcast for you. Join us as we consider the spirituality of the intellectual life and seek to love God with our minds and hearts.
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Sponsor
Season 3 of the Bridging Theology Podcast is sponsored by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. Eerdmans publishes the finest literature in theology, biblical studies, and religious history, and popular titles in spirituality, ministry, and cultural criticism. Upcoming releases in 2024 include works from scholars such as Amy Peeler, Clifton Black, Helen Bond, Michael Horton, James Nogalski and many more. Visit Eerdmans.com to order a copy today.
Episodes
![S3E9 Jennifer Powell McNutt and David W. McNutt - Know The Theologians](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog15960322/7200a8c1-4219-49d6-8265-cfa506d238d8-transformed_300x300.jpeg)
Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
S3E9 Jennifer Powell McNutt and David W. McNutt - Know The Theologians
Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
Tuesday Jul 16, 2024
Co-hosts Beth and Jon Stovell speak with Jennifer Powell McNutt and David W. McNutt about their research and writing, including their new book, Know the Theologians (Zondervan, 2024).
Jennifer Powell McNutt (PhD, University of St. Andrews) is the Franklin S. Dyrness Chair of Biblical and Theological Studies and Associate Professor of Theology and History of Christianity at Wheaton College, Fellow in the Royal Historical Society, award-winning author and professor, and Reformation scholar. David W. McNutt (PhD, University of Cambridge) is Senior Acquisitions Editor of Theology for Zondervan Academic with HarperCollins, Lecturer in Core Studies at Wheaton College, and Theology and the Arts scholar. Both are ordained ministers in the Presbyterian Church and co-founders of McNuttshell Ministries, which seeks to bridge the church and the academy with faith in a nutshell.
![S3E8 Rick Ostrander: Academically Speaking - Lessons from a Life in Christian Higher Education](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog15960322/1593517886204-transformed3_300x300.jpeg)
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Tuesday Jul 02, 2024
Co-hosts Jon Stovell and Candace Smith speak with Rick Ostrander about his research and writing, including his new book, Academically Speaking: Lessons from a Life in Christian Higher Education (Eerdmans, 2024).
Dr. Rick Ostrander is Executive Director of the Michigan Christian Study Center. He holds a doctorate in American History from the University of Notre Dame. He also holds a master’s degree in history from the University of Notre Dame, a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Michigan, and a bachelor’s degree in theology from Moody Bible Institute.
As a scholar of American religion and an academic administrator, Dr. Ostrander maintains an active interest in Christian higher education. His publications include The Life of Prayer in a World of Science (Oxford, 2001), Head, Heart, Hand: John Brown University and Evangelical Higher Education (University of Arkansas, 2003), and “Spirituality and the Discipline of History,” in Searching for Spirituality in Higher Education (Peter Lang, 2007). A Fulbright Scholar to Germany in 2004, Dr. Ostrander complements his interest in American higher education with an active interest in global affairs and international education.
Dr. Ostrander’s book, Why College Matters to God: Academic Faithfulness and Christian Higher Education, was published in 2009 by Abilene Christian University Press and revised in 2012. It is one of the leading texts used by Christian college and universities for first-year seminars and new faculty orientations.
Rick and his wife Lonnie have four children. He is an avid cyclist who logs thousands of miles a year on his road bike.
![S3E7 Debra J. Mumford: African American Prophetic Preaching, Prosperity Preaching, Eschatology and the Reign of God](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog15960322/DebraMumford_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
Tuesday Jun 18, 2024
Co-hosts Candace Smith and Jon Stovell speak with Debra J. Mumford about her research and writing, which focuses on African American Prophetic Preaching, Prosperity Preaching, Eschatology and the Reign of God, and preaching and health.
Debra J. Mumford, is ordained minister in American Baptist Churches, USA and affiliate minister with the Alliance of Baptists. She joined the Louisville Seminary faculty in 2007. She majored in mechanical engineering at Howard University and worked in engineering before answering her call to ministry. Mumford served as a youth pastor, associate minister and church administrator in several congregations in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her scholarly interests include African American prophetic preaching, prosperity preaching, eschatology and the reign of God, and preaching and health.
Mumford’s publications include Exploring Prosperity Preaching: Biblical Health, Wealth, & Wisdom, Judson Press; “Slave Prosperity Gospel” for Homiletic; “The Gospel of Prosperity: Jesus, Capitalism and Hope” in Homiletical Theology: Theologies of the Gospel in Context, forthcoming; The Journal for the Society of Pentecostal Studies; “Preaching on Homosexuality in the Black Church” for the African American Lectionary; “Preaching and Plagiarism” for The Presbyterian Leader; “Prosperity Preaching and African American Prophetic Preaching” for the Review and Expositor: A Consortium Baptist Theological Journal; “Trayvon Martin: A Tragic Catalyst for Change” and “Obamacare: the Good, the Bad, and the Hope for the Future” for The Thoughtful Christian.
Since 2008, Mumford has served as a mentor for the Louisville Youth Group, a grassroots organization that provides resources and a safe space for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning young people ages 14 to 20.
![S3E6 Christopher M. Hays: Eight Million Exiles - Missional Action Research and the Crisis of Forced Migration](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog15960322/christopher-hays-headshot-transformed2_300x300.jpeg)
Wednesday May 15, 2024
Wednesday May 15, 2024
Co-hosts Claudia Herrera-Montero and Kevin Hill speak with Christopher M. Hays about his new book, Eight Million Exiles: Missional Action Research and the Crisis of Forced Migration (Eerdmans, 2024).
Christopher joined Scholar Leaders as President in 2022 after serving as a missionary and professor of New Testament at the Biblical Seminary of Colombia in Medellín. A Biblical scholar committed to the transformation of theological knowledge into missional practice, he has worked in projects ranging from authoring scholarly volumes to establishing church-based ministries to victims of forced migration. He holds degrees from Wheaton and Oxford. His most recent book in English is Eight Million Exiles. He and his wife Michelle have three children and live in North Carolina.
![S3E5 Alan J. Torrance and Andrew B. Torrance: Beyond Immanence - The Theological Vision of Kierkegaard and Barth](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog15960322/Torrance_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Co-host Kevin Hill and guest co-host Ross Von Hausen speak with Alan J. Torrance and Andrew B. Torrance about their new book, Beyond Immanence: The Theological Vision of Kierkegaard and Barth (Eerdmans, 2023).
Alan J. Torrance is professor emeritus of systematic theology at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of Persons in Communion: Trinitarian Description and Human Participation. He has also edited The Doctrine of God and Theological Ethics (with Michael Banner) and Scripture's Doctrine: Studies on the New Testament's Normativity for Christian Dogmatics (with Markus Bockmuehl).
Andrew B. Torrance is a senior lecturer in theology at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of The Freedom to Become a Christian: A Kierkegaardian Account of Human Transformation in Relationship with God. He has also edited several volumes, including Knowing Creation and Christ and the Created Order: Perspectives from Theology, Philosophy, and Science (with Thomas H. McCall) and Soren Kierkegaard: Theologian of the Gospel (with Greg Marcar and Todd Speidell).
![S3E4 Michael F. Bird: Jesus and the Powers](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog15960322/MichaelFBird_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
S3E4 Michael F. Bird: Jesus and the Powers
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Tuesday Apr 16, 2024
Co-hosts Beth Stovell and Ryan Reed join Michael F. Bird to discuss his new book, Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies, co-authored with N. T. Wright (Zondervan, 2024).
Michael F. Bird is Deputy Principal and Lecturer in New Testament at Ridley College, Australia. He is the author of numerous scholarly and popular books on the New Testament and theology, including, with N. T. Wright, The New Testament in Its World (2019).
![S3E3 Elizabeth Conde-Frazier: Atando Cabos, Latinx Contributions to Theological Education](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog15960322/Elizabeth-Conde-Frazier_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Tuesday Apr 02, 2024
Co-hosts Claudia Herrera-Montero and Candace Smith speak with Elizabeth Conde-Frazier about her new book Atando Cabos, Latinx Contributions to Theological Education, published by Eerdmans in 2021.
Rev. Dr. Elizabeth Conde-Frazier is the author of the book Atando Cabos, Latinx Contributions to Theological Education, published by Eerdmans in 2021. Her fields of study are Christian Education and Practical Theology. She is the coordinator of relationships for theological entities at Asociación para la Educación Teológica Hispana (AETH). Before this role, she served as dean and vice president of education at Esperanza College of Eastern University in Philadelphia, PA. Rev. Dr. Conde-Frazier was previously tenured associate professor of religious education at Claremont School of Theology and taught Hispanic Latino/a theology at the Latin American Bible Institute. She has over ten years of experience as an ordained pastor and formerly served as a bilingual teacher in the New York City school system. The Rev. Dr. Conde-Frazier holds a Ph.D. from Boston College and a Master of Divinity degree from Palmer Seminary.
![S3E2 Stefana Dan Laing: Retrieving History - Memory and Identity Formation in the Early Church](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog15960322/Laing-Dan-Stefana-tr_300x300.jpeg)
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Tuesday Mar 19, 2024
Co-hosts Kevin Hill and Claudia Herrera-Montero speak with Stefana Dan Laing about her new book, Retrieving History - Memory and Identity Formation in the Early Church (Baker 2017). Stefana Dan Laing is Associate Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School.
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Season 3 of the Bridging Theology Podcast is sponsored by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. With a history spanning over 100 years, Eerdmans publishes the finest literature in theology, biblical studies, and religious history, and popular titles in spirituality, ministry, and cultural criticism. Upcoming releases in 2024 include works from scholars such as Amy Peeler, Clifton Black, Helen Bond, Michael Horton, James Nogalski and many more. Visit Eerdmans.com to order a copy today.
![S3E1 Andrew J. Brown: Recruiting the Ancients for the Creation Debate](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog15960322/AndrewBrown1_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
S3E1 Andrew J. Brown: Recruiting the Ancients for the Creation Debate
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Tuesday Mar 05, 2024
Co-hosts Beth Stovell and Ryan Reed speak with Andrew J. Brown about his new book, Recruiting the Ancients for the Creation Debate (Eerdmans 2023). Andrew J. Brown is Old Testament Lecturer at the Melbourne School of Theology. He is also the author of The Days of Creation: A History of Christian Interpretation of Genesis 1:1-2:3.
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Season 3 of the Bridging Theology Podcast is sponsored by William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. With a history spanning over 100 years, Eerdmans publishes the finest literature in theology, biblical studies, and religious history, and popular titles in spirituality, ministry, and cultural criticism. Upcoming releases in 2024 include works from scholars such as Amy Peeler, Clifton Black, Helen Bond, Michael Horton, James Nogalski and many more. Visit Eerdmans.com to order a copy today.
![S2E13 Diana L. Hayes on Womanist Theology and Spirituality](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog15960322/DianaHayes_1_8399y_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
S2E13 Diana L. Hayes on Womanist Theology and Spirituality
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
Diana L. Hayes is a Professor of Systematic Theology in the Department of Theology at Georgetown. Her areas of specialization are Womanist Theology, Black Theology, U.S. Liberation Theologies, Contextual Theologies, Religion and Public Life, and African American and Womanist Spirituality. Dr. Hayes is the first African American woman to receive the Pontifical Doctor of Sacred Theology degree (S.T.D.) from the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium). She also two additional earned doctorates in the fields of Law and Religious Studies. She is the author of 9 books and over 70 articles.
![S2E12 Matthew W. Bates on Why the Gospel? Living the Good News of King Jesus with Purpose (With Co-Hosts Beth Stovell and Ryan Reed)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog15960322/on57bg0tjc2knddffv8g7jevlm_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Dec 14, 2023
Thursday Dec 14, 2023
Matthew W. Bates is professor of theology at Quincy University. A Protestant who enjoys the challenge of teaching in a Catholic context, Bates holds an M.C.S. from Regent College (biblical studies) and a PhD from University of Notre Dame (theology, New Testament). He is cofounder of the OnScript podcast. Bates's books include Why the Gospel? Living the Good News of King Jesus With Purpose (Eerdmans, 2023), Salvation by Allegiance Alone, The Gospel Precisely, Gospel Allegiance, and The Birth of the Trinity.
![S2E11 Steven W. Tyra on Faith, Education, and Christian History and Theology](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog15960322/1700183764863-transformed_300x300.jpeg)
Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
S2E11 Steven W. Tyra on Faith, Education, and Christian History and Theology
Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
Wednesday Nov 29, 2023
Steven W. Tyra holds a PhD from Baylor University. His research centers on early modern Switzerland and France. He also teaches History, Literature, and Latin at Live Oak Classical School in Waco, TX. Since January 2022, he has been the Robert Pool Fellow in Law and Christianity at Emory University School of Law.
![S2E10 Jennifer Herdt on the Good Life with Co-Hosts Jon Stovell and Ryan Reed](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog15960322/trr92bv113tr0hpdlsn80m5606_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
S2E10 Jennifer Herdt on the Good Life with Co-Hosts Jon Stovell and Ryan Reed
Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Tuesday Oct 31, 2023
Jennifer A. Herdt is Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Christian Ethics at Yale University’s Divinity School. She is the author, most recently, of Assuming Responsibility: Ecstatic Eudaimonism and the Call to Live Well(link is external). Her 2019 book, Forming Humanity: Redeeming the German Bildung Tradition(link is external), was supported by a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She is also the author of Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices (link is external)(selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title), and of Religion and Faction in Hume’s Moral Philosophy(link is external), and has published widely on virtue ethics, early modern and modern moral thought, and political theology. She serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Christian Ethics, Studies in Christian Ethics, and the Journal of Religion, and served as the 2020 President of the Society of Christian Ethics. From 2013-2021, she served as the academic dean of Yale Divinity School. She is currently researching more-than-human creaturely agency as a senior member of a research team that has received a $3.9M, 3-year collaborative grant from the Templeton Foundation(link is external) in 2020 to pursue projects in science-informed theological anthropology.
![S2E9 Anna Moseley Gissing on Christian Research and Publishing with Co-Hosts Kevin Hill and Ryan Reed](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog15960322/AMG_profile_picaklu5_300x300.jpg)
Thursday Sep 14, 2023
Thursday Sep 14, 2023
Anna Moseley Gissing, Senior Acquisitions Editor at Baker Academic, discusses the significance of research and publishing.
![S2E8 Being God’s Image: Why Creation Still Matters with Carmen Imes and Co-Hosts Beth Stovell and Candace Smith](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog15960322/medium_Imes_Carmen_700736497857t5df_300x300.jpg)
Friday Jul 21, 2023
Friday Jul 21, 2023
Dr. Carmen Imes is passionate about helping students and other laypeople engage the Old Testament and discover its relevance for Christian identity and mission. She is best known for her books Bearing God's Name: Why Sinai Still Matters (IVP 2019) and Being God's Image: Why Creation Still Matters (IVP 2023). Imes has appeared on over 100 podcasts and radio shows and releases weekly "Torah Tuesday" videos on her own YouTube channel. She writes for Christianity Today, Politics of Theology, and The Well (InterVarsity). Imes is also a frequent speaker at churches, conferences, and retreats. Before arriving at Biola in 2021, she served as professor of Old Testament at Prairie College in Alberta, Canada. Her academic journey began when Carmen and her husband served as missionaries in the Philippines with SIM International, reaching out to ethnic minorities. Imes loves introducing students to the rich insights of the global church.
Today's episode discusses Being God's Image: Why Creation Still Matters by Carmen Imes (IVP 2023).
![S2E7 Women and the Gender of God with Amy Peeler and Co-Hosts Beth Stovell and Kevin Hill](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog15960322/91UwwndBK-L_AC_UF1000_1000_QL80__upregi_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Jun 27, 2023
Tuesday Jun 27, 2023
The Rev. Amy Peeler, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College, IL and an Associate Rector at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Geneva, IL. Author of Women and Gender of God (Eerdmans, 2022), “You Are My Son”: The Family of God in the Epistle to the Hebrews (T&T Clark, 2014), and co-author with Patrick Gray of Hebrews: An Introduction and Study Guide (T&T Clark, 2020), she continues to research, write, and speak on Hebrews and familial language in the New Testament. She received her BA in Biblical Languages from Oklahoma Baptist University, M. Div. and Ph. D. in New Testament from Princeton Theological Seminary, and served as a Senior Research Fellow with the Logos Institute at the University of St. Andrews. She is an active member of the Institute for Biblical Research, Society of Biblical Literature, and a Fellow with the Center for Pastor Theologians. Her current research includes a commentary on Hebrews with Eerdmans. In addition to teaching, preaching, and writing, Rev. Dr. Peeler enjoys running, CrossFit, and time with her husband Lance, a church organist and liturgical scholar, and their three children.
In this episode, Amy talks with us about her new book, Women and the Gender of God, published by Eerdmans Publishing Co.
![S2E6 Themes in the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets with David Fuller and Beth Stovell. With Host Ryan Reed and Guest Interviewer Colin Toffelmire](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog15960322/unnamed_ax78rd_300x300.png)
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
Thursday Jun 22, 2023
Beth Stovell (PhD, McMaster Divinity College) is Professor of Old Testament at Ambrose University in Calgary, AB. Beth specializes in biblical metaphor, researching Johannine literature and biblical prophetic literature. David Fuller (PhD, Mcmaster Divinity College) is Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Torch Trinity Graduate University in Seoul, Korea. David's research interests include the prophetic corpus as a whole (especially the Book of the Twelve), the ancient Near Eastern background of the Old Testament, the Septuagint, Semitic languages, and philosophical hermeneutics.
In this episode, Beth and David discuss their new book, Themes in the Book of the Twelve Minor Prophets. This episode is hosted by Ryan Reed and guest host Colin Toffelmire.
![S2E5 Ryan McAnnally-Linz on the Home of God](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog15960322/Ryan_-_Copy7hf4u_300x300.jpg)
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
S2E5 Ryan McAnnally-Linz on the Home of God
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Wednesday Jun 14, 2023
Ran McAnnally-Linz (PhD, Yale) is a systematic theologian and Associate Director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. He works at the intersection of theology, ethics, and cultural criticism. His interests include the theological ethics of humility, the place of eschatology in Christian thought and life, biblical theology, the philosophy of Charles Taylor, and understanding the work of his many teachers. He is author, with Miroslav Volf, of Public Faith in Action and The Home of God: A Brief Story of Everything; and he is co-editor of The Joy of Humility: The Beginning and End of the Virtues and Envisioning the Good Life: Essays on God, Christ, and Human Flourishing in Honor of Miroslav Volf. His scholarly articles have appeared in Modern Theology, The Scottish Journal of Theology, and elsewhere.
![S2E4 Jeremy Duncan on Revelation and the Gospel of Peace](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog15960322/JeremyDuncan_300x300.png)
Tuesday May 02, 2023
S2E4 Jeremy Duncan on Revelation and the Gospel of Peace
Tuesday May 02, 2023
Tuesday May 02, 2023
Jeremy Duncan, founding pastor of Commons Church in Calgary AB Canada, and author of Upside-Down Apocalypse: Grounding Revelation in the Gospel of Peace (Harold Press 2022), talks with co-hosts Beth Stovell and Jon Stovell about how his scholarship connects with Christian life.
![S2E3 Karen Keen on the Interpretation of Scripture and Theology](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog15960322/image_2__8jkns4_300x300.png)
Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
S2E3 Karen Keen on the Interpretation of Scripture and Theology
Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
Tuesday Apr 11, 2023
Karen Keen, a biblical scholar, author, and spiritual care provider, talks with co-hosts Beth Stovell and Kevin Hill about how her scholarship connects with Christian life.