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Homebrewed Christianity

Party Time with Philip Clayton for "The Predicament of Belief"

Homebrewed Christianity

Dr. Tripp Fuller | Theologian, Philosopher, Minister

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.6612 Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2012

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

What happens when Homebrewed Christianity throws a party for the best book of the year? You don't have to guess, ya just gotta listen! Be prepared for metaphysics, skepticism, atheism, Christology, religious experience, doubt, the death of God, Process thought, and all the theological hype money can buy! This week you get to visit the home of Philip Clayton where a bunch of theology nerds packed in and more streaming online while we celebrated the launch of Philip Clayton and Steven Knapp's book The Predicament of Belief: Science, Philosophy, and Faith. Philip has been on the podcast before live with Caputo, talking Jesus from the Emergent Village Theological Conversation, debating Creation, and 3-Ding at the American Academy of Religion.  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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slash homebrewd. That's Garrett, G-A-R-R-E-T-T-D-U-S-Homebrood.

1:15.8

Maybe some of us got really tired of just mouthing the old words without asking the hard

1:20.7

questions.

1:21.6

And maybe a lot of us are feeling like there's an intensity to finding out what's behind

1:26.3

this language.

1:27.8

And maybe the only way to do it was to start asking the hardest questions.

1:31.5

So instead of starting the book as an apologist, why every proposition that we always thought was true is really true, and all the objections are baloney.

1:39.7

What if you spent, so Steve Knapp and I spent seven years trying to get the objections right? And we

1:45.0

just destroyed every answer we could find in every text of major Christian authors. And then we

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