Faith Adjacent: Jane Austen
Faith Adjacent
The Popcast Media Group
4.8 • 5.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Resident Bible Scholar Erin Moon takes us on a deep dive into the faith adjacency of that saintly and saucy Regency author, Jane Austen. You know her for her popular works such as Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility, but in this episode, we examine her life to see how her faith might have influenced these classic writings. Join us as we uncover Jane’s prayer life, discuss whether or not her writings can be considered Christian fiction, and find out just what she had to say about biblical womanhood as we search for God in the pages and life of Jane Austen.
MENTIONS
- Dr. Karen Swallow Prior: Website | Twitter | Instagram | On Reading Well | Sense and Sensibility
- Jane Austen Books Mentioned: Pride and Prejudice | Sense and Sensibility | Mansfield Park | Emma
- Tell me more about dripping wet Colin Firth
- Here’s where you can plan a post-pandemic trip to England with Hidden Britain Tours
- Take a tour of Jane’s House
- Cassandra the Artist: Mary Queen of Scots inspired by Jane
- Read: Jane Austen and the Clergy by Irene Collins
- Bible Passages Referenced: James 1:27
- Read about Jael in the Bible
- Mansfield Park Deep Dive: In Defense of Fanny Price
- Read: The Book of Common Prayer
- All things Jane Austen: The Jane Austen Center | Fan Site
- More on Jane Austen’s Faith: Salvation and Society in Georgian England | The Christian Faith of Jane Austen
- Erin’s Source Materials: Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin | Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley | Jane Austen’s Letters compiled by Deirdre La Faye | A Memoir of Jane Austen by James Edward Austen-Leigh | Praying with Jane by Rachel Dodge | Jane Austen’s England by Roy Adkins | The Life and Works of Jane Austen by Devoney Looser | The Parson’s Daughter by Irene Collin
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Resident Bible Scholar Erin Moon is a Bible study editor and Senior Creative/Producer at The Popcast Media Group from Birmingham. Find her on Instagram.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We click on the B button to pop the B button. |
| 0:15.5 | Welcome to Faith adjacent, a spin-off of the Bible Bunch podcast, where we send up our |
| 0:23.3 | faith antenna to see if we can get reception in unlikely places. |
| 0:27.9 | I'm your host, Erin Moon, resident Bible scholar on the Bible bench. |
| 0:31.4 | And this month, it is a truth universal y'knowledge that a single man in possession of a good |
| 0:36.5 | fortune must be in want of a faith adjacent episode about that saintly and saucy |
| 0:41.7 | regency author, Jane Austen. |
| 0:45.7 | A quick disclaimer before we get started, faith is very personal. |
| 0:48.8 | Everyone brings their own set of lenses and perspectives to anything they encounter in |
| 0:52.2 | the world, and that includes scripture, faith, religion. |
| 0:55.5 | I always welcome general rebukes and additional thoughts as well as attention to blind spots |
| 1:00.0 | I may not have considered. |
| 1:01.8 | This is a conversation. |
| 1:03.1 | If this is spiritual archaeology, I want us to dig together. |
| 1:06.6 | I would also like to offer an additional apology for all the ways I use the word dripping |
| 1:13.7 | in this episode. |
| 1:14.7 | I am very sorry, please forgive me. |
| 1:17.6 | So in today's episode, we're going to talk about Jane Austen and look, I know that some |
| 1:21.4 | of you are like, hard past, no thank you. |
| 1:24.2 | Will you just hear me out really quickly? |
| 1:25.8 | I understand where you're coming from. |
| 1:27.2 | I am also a former Jane hater. |
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