Who Counts as a Theologian? Reflections on Lewis with Dr. Jahdiel Perez [The Pugcast]
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🗓️ 19 August 2024
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Summary
Who counts as a theologian? Who gets to address the deep things of God and creation? Tom is at the helm this week and he is joined by a special guest, Dr. Jahdiel Perez of Villanova University. Dr. Perez is a C. S. Lewis scholar, writing the first doctoral dissertation in ‘theology’ at the University of Oxford on C. S. Lewis. Wrapping up our Lewis theme, Tom and Jahdiel discusses many of the rich ‘theological’ insights of C. S. Lewis, from questions of evil and suffering in light of God’s goodness to questions of Christian enjoyment of created goods in contrast to Nietzsche’s criticism of Christian faith as wholly joy denying. The highlight of the conversation centers around C. S. Lewis as a theologian, not merely as apologist or academic.
Special appearance by Glenn Sunshine, whose personal computer may have been hacked by the ghost of Rousseau during the show.
Dr. Perez’s latest Open Access article on Lewis: https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.14306
Dr. Perez’s Faculty Page: https://www1.villanova.edu/university/liberal-arts-sciences/programs/humanities/faculty/biodetail.html?mail=jahdiel.perez@villanova.edu&xsl=bio_long
Dr. Perez on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jahdielnperez?igsh=MXJ3bjJwMGQ1MW5xZA%3D%3D&utm_source=qr
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Theology Podcast. We're glad you're with us. I am not |
| 0:06.0 | C. R. Wiley. He is not able to join us this week. I am Glenn Sunshine. I'm a |
| 0:10.8 | senior fellow at the Colston Center for Christian Worldview, a ministry associated |
| 0:15.6 | reflections ministries, and I have my own ministry called Every Square Ranch Ministries. |
| 0:22.0 | And that's about it for me. I'm Tom why don't you introduce yourself and |
| 0:26.1 | our guest. All right I am Tom Price I teach systematic theology, theological |
| 0:31.1 | ethics, philosophy and a few other things. |
| 0:33.6 | One of the places is Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. |
| 0:37.2 | And today we have a special guest, Dr. Jadiel Perez. |
| 0:41.2 | We have been back and forth through the years, but never even met virtually like this, |
| 0:47.6 | so this is a real treat for us. |
| 0:49.3 | And I'm going to let him introduce himself in kind of what area of study he is but this has to do with |
| 0:54.8 | one of our favorite topics, CS Lewis so take it away Jadio. |
| 0:59.7 | Well first of all I'm really happy to be with you all. Thank you for having me here. |
| 1:04.7 | I'm a big CS Lewis guy. |
| 1:06.3 | There's two guys that have been really central to my thinking and life. |
| 1:11.5 | One is CS Lewis. the other is Frederick Nietzsche, not exactly the pairing that we would normally have. |
| 1:18.0 | But yeah, I did a philosophy at UMass Boston, I fell in love with it. It raised all these big |
| 1:24.3 | questions that I thought, you know, how could I possibly ignore these questions? I |
| 1:28.6 | really just want to dedicate my life to kind of exploring them. And I described it that I got seduced by theology. |
| 1:36.2 | So I went to Harvard Divinity School to kind of study theology. |
| 1:40.6 | I went there specifically because I didn't want to study with people that already agreed with my, you know, with my view of faith. |
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