I loved talking to Merold Westphal and I’m pretty sure all the HBC Deacons and theology nerds across the
inter-webs are gonna dig this conversation coming out of the barrel.  Westphal is a long time philosophy prof from Fordham University and has now reached the status of emeritus. Merold is a top notch philosopher and committed evangelical who thinks deep and wrestles faithfully.  He publishes regularly and also has an awesome book for a general audience.
In the episode we discuss…

* Heidegger & The Onto-theological Critique
* Evangelicalism
* Growing up a dispensationalist and ending up a Christian philosopher
* Hegel, the social constitution of the self, & the located nature of ‘reason’
* Necessary Conditions for Christian Theism…God is personal
& speaks
* Pseudo Dionysius, Augustine, Aquinas, Feuerbach & negative theology
* Revelation, the Word of God, and Human Receptivity
* the Rapture
* Rob Bell
* He also introduces us to the ‘Gang of Four’- the Desert Father, the Geneva Calvinists, the American Slaves, and the modern Amish.

 
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