Ep. 134 - Brian Zahnd ”When Everything’s on Fire: Faith Forged from the Ashes”

The Deconstructionists

John Williamson

Religion, Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 823 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Guest Bio:This week week we have the incredible Brian Zahnd. We cover a whole host of topics from Brian’s amazing new book, “When Everything's on Fire: Forging Faith from the Ashes.”Brian is the founder and lead pastor of Word of Life Church, a non-denominational congregation in St. Joseph, Missouri. He is a passionate reader of theology and philosophy, an avid hiker, mountain climber, and authority on all things Bob Dylon.(Selected) Published Works: Water to Wine: Some of my story; A Farewell to Mars: An Evangelical Pastor’s Journey Toward the Biblical Gospel of Peace; Beauty will save the world: Rediscovering the Allure and Mystery of Christianity; Unconditional?: The Call of Jesus to Radical Forgiveness; What To Do on the Worst Day of Your Life; and Sinner in the Hands of a Loving God: The Scandalous Truth of the Very Good News.Special theme music by Forrest Clay. Songs heard on this episode were: "Does God" and "Recover" from the Recover EP.If you enjoy what we’re doing consider becoming part of our Patreon family. We have some really great ways for you to help be a part of what we’re doing and some really cool reward packages as well! Check us out at our website www.thedeconstructionists.com to join, listen to all of our episodes, subscribe to future shows, connect with us on social media, read our blog, or get your hands on one of our many cool t-shirts or pint glasses.Website design by @ryanbattles. The Deconstructionists Podcast is mixed and edited by John Williamson.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-deconstructionists/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	But this is the fundamentalist problem, or one of them, is they tend to bundle everything together so tightly
0:07.4	that if you lose one aspect of your theology, it all goes down together. It all collapses together.
0:19.6	It doesn't need to be that way.
0:21.5	You can totally rethink your, you know,
0:24.1	atonement theories or your ideas about afterlife judgment or your eschatology
0:31.4	without necessarily having to destroy Christian faith.
0:34.8	And the other thing is none of this is particularly new.
0:37.4	We're in a time when there seems to be an acceleration to destroy Christian faith. And the other thing is, none of this is particularly new.
0:44.6	We're in a time when there seems to be an acceleration in the numbers of people that are having to rethink faith.
0:45.3	I get all that.
0:49.9	And there is something peculiar about modernity, and Nietzsche saw that and foretold it and all.
1:01.4	But the issues that are driving Christians to go through, quote, deconstruction, and maybe not, maybe their faith doesn't survive it, they're not new issues.
1:03.1	They're not new questions.
1:08.3	These things, church has been addressing most of them anyway for a very long time. We don't know.
1:19.2	I think the truth is... for a very long time. Welcome to the deconstructionist podcast. I'm your host, John Williamson. If you are new here,
1:24.2	thank you for joining in on the conversation. If you've been around for a while,
1:28.0	then thank you for continuing to support this work. A few things before we get to this
1:31.6	week's episode, the one-stop shop for the podcast is www.com. There you can stream our entire
1:40.1	back catalog of episodes, link to us on social media, read our blog, and join our Patreon
1:45.5	family, where we have all sorts of packages like our popular book club. The theme music this
1:51.2	week is provided by our friend Clay under his moniker Forrest Clay. He just released an amazing
1:56.9	all-new EP, all about deconstruction called the recover EP, and that is available anywhere
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