S9 Ep925: Power and Privilege in Paul, Mark, and White Evangelicalism: Dr. Tim Gombis
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🗓️ 6 December 2021
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Okay, so if you’re easily offended (and white), then you might want to change the channel. Dr. Tim Gombis is a no-holds-barred honest scholar, who’s not afraid to go to the hard places and challenge the status quo. And that’s exactly what we do in this episode. We discuss the undiscussables; say the quiet things out loud, and push over sacred cows as we seek to get to know Jesus all over again. This episode is a mix of exegetical exploration and cultural analysis (or critique).
Tim is a long-time friend, a fellow biblical scholar with a Ph.D. in New Testament from St. Andrews University in Scotland, and an all around great dude. He’s written tons of books including the Story of God Commentary on Mark and the recently released Power in Weakness. He’s been a professor of Bible and Theology at Cedarville University and Grand Rapids Theological Seminary, and he currently hosts the Faith Improvised podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Raw. If you would like to |
| 0:03.4 | support the show, you can go to patreon.com forward slash theology in the raw support to show for us |
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| 0:14.0 | and so on and so forth. Also, if you have not signed up yet for the theology in the raw conference |
| 0:19.2 | next spring, then you want to do so ASAP space is filling up. You can go to pressensprinkle.com |
| 0:26.8 | for all the info on that. My guest today is my long time and very good friend, Dr. Tim Gombis. |
| 0:34.2 | Tim and I met shortly after he graduated from seminary. We both went to the same seminary |
| 0:39.7 | at different times and then we both ended up in Scotland doing PhDs at different universities |
| 0:45.5 | in Scotland and then ended up at Cedarville University finally as colleagues and he has just |
| 0:51.2 | been a great friend over the years. He's an amazing scholar. He has a PhD in New Testament from |
| 0:56.4 | St. Andrews University has written a lot of books including The Story of God Commentary on Mark |
| 1:02.4 | and the recently released Power in Weakness which is the subject of much of our conversation. |
| 1:09.0 | He's been a professor at Cedarville University and also at Grand Rapids Theological Seminary. |
| 1:13.4 | So this is a long long overdue conversation. Please welcome to the show for the first time. |
| 1:18.4 | We want to know when Dr. Tim Gombis. |
| 1:37.1 | Hi, hey friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theologian Ram here with I think one of my |
| 1:42.6 | oldest or long-term friends that I've ever had on the podcast. I mean we go back to |
| 1:48.8 | let's see I graduate. You graduate seminary in 2000. Oh 2000? |
| 1:55.0 | Yeah. So I didn't know you. I remember seeing you walk the stage at graduation |
| 1:59.9 | and for some reason your name stood out and then when I started exploring doing the PhD in Paul |
| 2:06.3 | Grissanti, our Old Testament prof, he says if you know Tim Gombis like well I know the name. He's |
| 2:11.9 | like yeah he's at St. Andrews studying Paul. You should reach out to him and that's when I emailed |
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