All right. Hello, everyone. This is Tripp, and I'm here with my friend Travis McMacken. How's it going,

Travis? Going good. Great to be here. Happy way to spend a Monday afternoon. Oh, that's what I like to

hear. That's what I like to hear. So this is the first

of live streams over Advent looking at different theologians of crisis. And today, we got the OG

crisis theologian, Carl Bart, on the docket. Before we jump in to talking about Carl,

I just want to let you all know, Travis recorded an amazing lecture introducing Carl Bart, some of his Advent and Christmas theology,

and reflecting on one of his Christmas sermons that everyone in the class is already received.

If you're sitting there and you're going, whoa, this sounds like fun.

I want to read this.

I want to go along with it. I want to get the lecture. Then go to, oh're going, whoa, this sounds like fun. I want to read this. I want to go

along with it. I want to get the lecture. Then go to, oh, God, what now? You know, sadly, Travis,

I got that URL for the 20th anniversary of 9-11 that I thought, you know, theology changed after

that rather dramatically, and we're going to look at how it changed and that

UR was just sitting there.

And then something occurred early in November, right, at the, that I thought, man, I guess I

should do something for Advent that's like raising the kind of questions that one of the perks

of talking to thousands of ministers regularly is you get their emails of their concerns. And they're like, oh, God, what now? What is even the, what am I supposed to do as a,

as a proclaimer of the gospel at a time where things are in tumult? That you could say, there's a

series of interlocking crises going on. And I was like, for sure. I was like, guess what?

There was a whole group of theologians that started raising these questions in the crisis in Europe

after World War I, and there were theologians of crisis. So boom, that's what we did. Each week,

there's a different one. Today we're talking about Carl Bart next week, Dietrich Bonhofer, and then Paul Tillick, and then Rudolph Boltman. And so that's going to be going down. Everyone, you're invited. Oh, God, what now? Dot net. I join up. It's donation-based, including zero. So, yeah, and Linda, the lecture is on the class resource page. Actually, there's a couple of them up there already.

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