S2 Ep1153: The Truth of Fiction and the Limits of My World: Dr. Greg Coles

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Gregory Coles is the author of Single, Gay, Christian, No Longer Strangers, and the recently released dystopian-ish novel, The Limits of My World. He holds a PhD in English from Penn State and lives in Boise, Idaho, where he works as a writer and speaker. Greg is a Senior Research Fellow at The Center for Faith, Sexuality & Gender.

In this podcast conversation, we talk about his book The Limits of My World, which includes themes around the philosophy of language, anthropology, gender, and the nature of reality. This leads to a broader conversation around fiction vs. nonfiction literature (including the Bible), the role of genre for determining meaning, and the possibility that fiction helps us see the truth more than non-fiction.

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0:00.0	Hey friends, the Exiles and Babylon Conference is right around the corner, April 18th through the 20th in Boise, Idaho.
0:07.3	All the information is at theology in the rod.com. If you do want to attend live, and I would highly recommend if you can afford it if you have the time to come out to Boise, Idaho attend the conference live space is filling up so you want to register ASAP.
0:20.0	We are tackling loads of really important and very controversial topics.
0:24.4	We're talking about deconstruction and the gospel.
0:26.8	We're at where we're going to hear from people who have had a journey of deconstruction,
0:31.3	tell us why they did so. We're going to hear from women. of people and the church we're talking about different Christian views of politics
0:44.8	that should be loads of fun if not really intense and we just added a very
0:49.3	important pre-conference symposium on the theology and politics of Israel, Palestine.
0:56.0	And we're going to have different viewpoints represented.
0:58.5	Various discussions are going to be engaged in with that really important conversation.
1:02.7	So come to Boise, you can ask questions, you can engage the speakers, engage other people who are
1:08.1	at the conference.
1:09.1	It is loads of fun.
1:10.1	It really is, I would say, the highlight of my year.
1:12.2	So again, April 18th of the 20th of the voice
1:14.4	the Idaho, check out all the information at theology and the raw
1:16.7	dot com.
1:18.2	Hey friends, welcome back to another episode of Theologist.
1:20.3	Ron, my guest today is my very good friend,. Gregory Coals. Greg works with me at
1:25.5	the Center for Faith Sexuality and Gender. He's also a speaker and writer the author of several
1:30.5	books including single gay Christian, no longer strangers, and his recently
1:35.2	released fiction novel, which is the topic of this conversation called The Limits of My World.
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