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Episode 93: Keesmaat & Walsh - Resisting Empire in the Book of Romans

The Bible For Normal People

The Bible for Normal People

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.7 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week Biblical Scholar Dr. Sylvia Keesmaat and Theologian Dr. Brian Walsh talk about what Paul was up to in the book of Romans. We visit topics like salvation and politics and how maybe those words don’t mean what we thought when it comes to the New Testament. Show Notes → Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Bible for Normal People,

0:02.2

the only God ordained podcast on the internet.

0:05.3

Serious talk about the sacred book.

0:07.4

I'm Pete Ends.

0:08.2

And I'm Jared Bias.

0:09.2

Bias.

0:10.6

Welcome everyone to this episode of the Bible for Normal People.

0:14.3

And our topic today is resisting empire in the book of Romans

0:19.1

and our guests, or we have two guests today, Jared.

0:21.7

I was thinking that I don't know if we've actually had two guests on it one time.

0:25.2

But they're like Mary, so we had to do this.

0:27.1

Yeah. Right. So I think they actually are Mary, though.

0:29.5

I don't think they just like Mary.

0:30.9

They are Mary.

0:32.1

So I'd better be anyway.

0:34.2

But they live in the same house.

0:35.5

Yeah, no, anyway, Sylvia Kiesmot, who is a biblical scholar

0:40.1

and her husband, Brian Walsh, who is a theologian

0:44.4

and they just wrote a book on Romans, which will get into a little bit

0:48.2

and they'll talk about it too.

0:49.4

And we had a good time talking about reading Romans from a very different angle.

0:54.2

That's what it came down to.

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