S9 Ep938: Evangelicalism, Eroticism, Trinity, Sexuality, Suffering, and Hope: David Bennett
Theology in the Raw
Theology in the Raw
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🗓️ 17 January 2022
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Summary
David is from Sydney, Australia where he studied journalism and then international relations. He moved to Oxford to pursue his studies in theology and train as an apologist from a skeptical, atheist background as an anti-Christian gay activist. David now holds undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in theology from Oxford, a master’s degree in theology from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, and is now completing his doctorate (DPhil) in theology at Oxford. He specialises in the relationship between queer theory, asceticism and contemporary Anglican theology, especially ethics, and the role of desire in knowing God. He’s in the process of discerning a call to ordination.
David has recently published his first book, A War of Loves (Zondervan, 2018). It describes his own story from atheistic gay activism to becoming a follower of Jesus, in which he advocates for a positive moral vision of biblical sexuality and discipleship. His other interests include French, Latin, church history and patristics, writing, travel, cooking, reading books, and living in Christian community.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, friends. Welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Rock. Got a few conferences coming up. |
| 0:05.1 | March, February 8th through the 9th in Sacramento, a conference on sexuality and gender. You can attend |
| 0:11.3 | live if you're in the Sacramento area or attend virtually if you have an internet connection. |
| 0:15.8 | We also have, of course, our Theology in the Rock exiles and Babylon conference in March, March 31st through |
| 0:21.8 | April 2nd. All the information for that conference that Theology in the Rock conference is on |
| 0:26.4 | my website pressensprego.com and the info for the sexuality conference and other events like webinars and so on |
| 0:33.8 | are at centerforfaith.com forward slash wait for it. Wait for it. Forward slash events. That's right. |
| 0:40.8 | Just go to centerfaith.com forward slash events. My guest today is David Bennett. David is smarter than |
| 0:48.0 | all of you and myself combined. He has a couple degrees from Oxford University, a master's degree from |
| 0:53.2 | St. Andrews under where he studied under Tom Wright and T. Wright and he's pursuing his doctorate at |
| 0:59.2 | back at Oxford University. He's from Sydney, Australia. He was a atheist gay activist who met Jesus |
| 1:07.4 | in a pub wrote a book about it called The War of Bluffs. I would highly encourage you to check out |
| 1:11.9 | that book if you've not read it yet. It's an amazing book and he's an amazing guy. He's a friend. He's |
| 1:16.2 | a scholar and he is a wildly charismatic Anglican-ish Catholic-ish Christian who defies all the boxes |
| 1:26.7 | and stereotypes. Please welcome back to the show The War of Bluffs. David Bennett. |
| 1:46.8 | Hey David, welcome back to the podcast. Thanks for having me back. It's been a year now. |
| 1:52.9 | At least a year. A year and a half. I think it was shortly after you released your book, wasn't it? |
| 1:58.8 | Like maybe six months after or something? That's been a... Yeah, maybe. I don't know if we were locked |
| 2:05.5 | down or if it was way before that but you know in these times our memories are a bit... What day is it? |
| 2:12.9 | What year is it? I don't like to have on guests too many times. I like to diversify |
| 2:22.0 | everything but every month I'm like I would be very happy with you being like a monthly reoccurring |
| 2:28.5 | guest. I can apply like the norms of podcasting but I just I so I don't know I just love talking to |
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