TheologyU
TheologyU
Podcast Description
Theology you can understand.
With academics and authors.
Hosted by Will Bennink (Wheaton College '23, Harvard Divinity School '27).
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The podcast explores themes such as comparative theology, religious literacy, church unity, faith in contemporary society, and biblical studies. Examples of episodes include discussions on comparative frameworks with Dr. Francis Clooney, the importance of religious literacy with Dr. Diane Moore, and the intersection of Augustinian thought and social issues with Dr. Greg Lee.
Theology you can understand.
With academics and authors.
Hosted by Will Bennink (Wheaton College ’23, Harvard Divinity School ’27).
This week, Will talks with Drs. Christy Cobb and Katherine Shaner about what the New testament has to say about slavery and what it looked like in the surrounding world. They also talk about how to read those difficult passages in the New Testament which don’t condemn slavery in the way we might like.
Dr. Christy Cobb is Associate professor of Christianity at University of Denver. She has a masters from wake forest, an mdiv from campbell university divinity school, and a phd from drew university, and her scholarship focuses on slavery, gender, and sexuality in antiquity.
Dr. Katherine Shaner is Associate professor of new testament at wake forest university. She earned an MDiv and ThD from Harvard Divinity school and teaches courses across new testament and early Christian history. She’s also an ordained pastor in the evangelical Lutheran church in America.
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