Andrew Root: Incarnation as Resistance

Homebrewed Christianity

Dr. Tripp Fuller | Theologian, Philosopher, Minister

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 86 minutes

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In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Andrew Root to delve into the Advent sermons of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, discussing the context and impact of his work. We unpack Bonhoeffer's experiences in Barcelona, Cuba, Berlin, and London, touching on his interaction with his time's ideological and theological crises. The conversation also includes insights into Bonhoeffer’s relationships, his formative years, and the implications of his theological perspectives. Bonhoeffer’s emphasis on waiting, his critiques of ideology, and his reflections on community and personhood are given attention. You can WATCH the conversation on YouTube This DECEMBER, we will be exploring the 'Theologians of Crisis' in our online Advent class - Breaking into the Broken World. Join us to learn about Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Rudolph Bultmann as we explore their thoughts and timely reflections in their Advent/Christmas sermons. _____________________ This DECEMBER, we will be exploring the 'Theologians of Crisis' in our online Advent class - Breaking into the Broken World. Join us to learn about Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Rudolph Bultmann as we explore their thoughts and timely reflections in their Advent/Christmas sermons. Join my Substack - Process This! Join our class - THE RISE OF BONHOEFFER, for a guided tour of Bonhoeffer's life and thought. Spend a week with Tripp & Andrew Root in Bonhoeffer’s House in Berlin this June as part of the Rise of Bonhoeffer Travel Learning Experience. INFO & DETAILS HERE Follow the podcast, drop a review, send feedback/questions or become a member of the HBC Community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right. Hello, everyone. This is Tripp, and I'm here with Dr. Andrew Root.
0:12.4	And we're going to have some Advent fun, Advent fun with Dietrich, known for just nice, sentimental, nostalgic, filled, heartwarming
0:24.5	Advent sermons, the kind that make no one uncomfortable and just celebrate the impending precious
0:32.3	moments.
0:34.1	They're going to be captured and probably putting a commercial later.
0:38.5	Yeah, absolutely.
0:39.9	Yeah, very Christmas Dickens feel to these.
0:45.5	Yeah.
0:46.9	You know, Dickens had some cool stuff in Christmas Carol that Dietrich Bonhoeffer probably liked.
0:53.7	Yeah, probably good.
0:55.3	I wonder if he read, I wonder if he read Dickens, I don't know.
0:58.9	Maybe his time in London he did.
1:01.8	Well, so we read a series of his Advent sermons.
1:07.4	People already had a chance to listen to your lecture setting it up and guiding them into it
1:14.4	but if you are sitting on here and you haven't you haven't watched it then fill the lure you can go
1:21.9	over to oh god what now dot net oh h gOD that go god what now dot net and you-H-G-O-D. That go God. What-now. Dot net. And you can join up. You'll get the lecture for it,
1:32.3	along with the lecture on Bart, N. Tillick, and Boltman coming up, and you can have some theology
1:39.5	of crisis this advent. Now, Andy, one of the things I think that might help is for you to share a bit about Bonhoeffer's
1:53.5	own context when he goes into Barcelona, the first one we read, and what it was like in Berlin when he comes back when we think about
2:03.1	these theologies of crisis showing up in that interwar period and all that's going on i know for
2:09.5	bonhofer the kind of live leaving his home and a much more kind of upper middle class
2:16.5	german aristocracy type space to German
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