Interviews with Divinity / GDR Faculty About Recent or Forthcoming Publications
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New! Jaco Hamman talks about his book Pastoral Virtues for Artificial Intelligence: Care and the Algorithms that Guide Our Lives
Recorded September 5, 2024, 2024
David Michelson talks about his book The Library of Paradise: A History of Contemplative Reading in the Monasteries of the Church of the East
Recorded April 11, 2024
Lisa L. Thompson talks about her book Preaching the Headlines: Possibilities and Pitfalls
Recorded May 4, 2023
Joerg Rieger talks about his book Theology in the Capitalocene: Ecology, Identity, Class, and Solidarity
Recorded March 23, 2023
Stephanie Budwey talks about her book Religion and Intersex: Perspectives from Science, Law, Culture, and Theology
Recorded November 3, 2022
James P. Byrd talks about his book A Holy Baptism of Fire and Blood: The Bible and the American Civil War
Recorded September 29, 2022
Laurel Schneider and Thelathia Nikki Young talk about their book Queer Soul and Queer Theology: Ethics and Redemption in Real Life
Recorded September 8, 2022
Jaco Hamman talks about his book Just Traveling: God, Leaving Home, and a Spirituality for the Road
Recorded August 11, 2022
Lenn Goodman talks about his book The Holy One of Israel
Recorded July 8, 2022
William Franke talks about his book On the Universality of What Is Not: The Apophatic Turn in Critical Thinking
Recorded September 3, 2021
Tony Stewart talks about his book Witness to Marvels: Sufism and Literary Imagination
Recorded May 26, 2021
Joerg Rieger talks about his book Jesus vs. Caesar: For People Tired of Serving the Wrong God
Recorded October 30, 2019
Daniel Patte talks about his book Romans: Three Exegetical Interpretations and the History of Reception. Volume 1: Romans 1:1-32
Recorded April 19, 2019
Jaco Hamman talks about his book The Millennial Narrative: Sharing a Good Life with the Next Generation
Recorded March 14, 2019
John McClure talks about his book Speaking Together and with God: Liturgy and Communicative Ethics
Recorded February 22, 2019
Myrick C. Shinall, Jr. talks about his article “The Social Condition of Lepers in the Gospels,” Journal of Biblical Literature 137, no. 4 (2018): 915-34.
Recorded February 5, 2019
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William Franke talks about his book Apophatic Paths from Europe to China: Regions without Borders
Recorded November 1, 2018
James Hudnut-Beumler talks about his book Strangers and Friends at the Welcome Table: Contemporary Christianities in the American South
Recorded October 5, 2018
Joel Harrington talks about his book Dangerous Mystic: Meister Eckhart’s Path to the God Within
Recorded August 29, 2018
Jay Geller talks about his book Bestiarium Judaicum: Unnatural Histories of the Jews
Recorded July 23, 2018
James Crenshaw talks about his two-volume book set Sipping from the Cup of Wisdom (Exploring Diverse Paths of Research [vol. 1] and Faith Lingering on the Edges [vol. 2])
Recorded March 8, 2018
William Franke talks about his book A Theology of Literature: The Bible as Revelation in the Tradition of the Humanities
Recorded March 8, 2018
Anand Vivek Taneja talks about his book Jinnealogy: Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi
Recorded December 15, 2017
David Wasserstein talks about his book Black Banners of ISIS: The Roots of the New Caliphate
Recorded October 27, 2017
Jaco Hamman talks about his book Growing Down: Theology and Human Nature in the Virtual Age
Recorded October 6, 2017
Amy-Jill Levine talks about her book Who Counts? 100 Sheep, 10 Coins, and 2 Sons, coauthored with Sandy Eisenberg Sasso and illustrated by Margaux Meganck
Recorded June 26, 2017
Bryan Lowe talks about his book Ritualized Writing: Buddhist Practice and Scriptural Cultures in Ancient Japan
Recorded April 10, 2017
William Franke talks about his book Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante
Joining the conversation is Chance Woods, who used Franke’s book in an Introduction to Poetry class.
Recorded March 6, 2017
Visiting lecturer Robert Alter talks about scholarly trajectories, disciplinary identity, and translation
Recorded January 30, 2017
Bruce Rogers-Vaughn talks about his book Caring for Souls in a Neoliberal Age
Recorded January 24, 2017
Lenn Goodman talks about his book Judaism: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation
Recorded December 13, 2016
Joerg Rieger and Rosemarie Henkel-Rieger talk about their book Unified We Are a Force: How Faith and Labor Can Overcome America’s Inequalities
Recorded November 17, 2016
Volney Gay talks about his book On the Pleasures of Owning Persons: The Hidden Face of American Slavery
Recorded October 27, 2016
Bruce Morrill talks about his book The Essential Writings of Bernard Cooke: A Narrative Theology of Church, Sacrament and Ministry
Recorded August 31, 2016
Ellen Armour talks about her book Signs & Wonders: Theology After Modernity
Recorded May 11, 2016
Idit Dobbs-Weinstein talks about her book Spinoza’s Critique of Religion and its Heirs: Marx, Benjamin, Adorno
Recorded September 10, 2015
Lenn Goodman talks about the book Lenn E. Goodman : Judaism, Humanity, and Nature, edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes
Recorded March 31, 2015
David Michelson talks about his book The Practical Christology of Philoxenos of Mabbug
Recorded March 3, 2015
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Robin Jensen and Patout Burns talk about their book Christianity in Roman Africa: The Development of Its Practices and Beliefs
Recorded January 30, 2015
Jaco Hamman talks about his book Becoming a Pastor: Forming Self and Soul for Ministry (revised and updated edition)
Recorded December 11, 2014
Christopher Paris talks about his book Narrative Obtrusion in the Hebrew Bible
Recorded November 17, 2014
David Michelson talks about Syriaca.org, the Syriac Reference Portal
Recorded November 14, 2014
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Lenn Goodman talks about his book Coming to Mind: The Soul and Its Body, co-authored by D. Gregory Caramenico
Recorded September 19, 2014
Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman talks about his book The Business of Identity: Jews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt
Recorded April 4, 2014
Lenn Goodman talks about his book Religious Pluralism and Values in the Public Sphere
Recorded March 6, 2014
Jack Sasson talks about his book Judges 1-12: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
Recorded October 21, 2013
William Franke talks about his book A Philosophy of the Unsayable
Recorded July 17, 2013
Phillip Ackerman-Lieberman talks about A Jew’s Best Friend?: The Image of the Dog throughout Jewish History (which he co-edited with Rakefet Zalashik)
Recorded June 13, 2013
Sandra Barnes talks about her book Live Long and Prosper: How Black Megachurches Address HIV/AIDS and Poverty in the Age of Prosperity Theology
Recorded February 6, 2013
Paul Lim talks about his book Mystery Unveiled: The Crisis of the Trinity in Early Modern England
Recorded October 19, 2012
Bruce Morrill talks about his book Encountering Christ in the Eucharist: The Paschal Mystery in People, Word, and Sacrament
Recorded September 14, 2012
Diane Sasson talks about her book Yearning for the New Age: Laura Holloway-Langford and Late Victorian Spirituality
Recorded July 20, 2012
William Franke talks about his book Dante and the Sense of Transgression: “The Trespass of the Sign”
Recorded April 20, 2012
Bonnie Miller-McLemore talks about the book The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Practical Theology (which she edited and to which she contributed the introduction)
Recorded April 19, 2012
Melissa Snarr talks about her book All You That Labor: Religion and Ethics in the Living Wage Movement
Recorded January 27, 2012
John McClure talks about his book Mashup Religion: Pop Music and Theological Invention
Recorded January 19, 2012
Daniel Patte talks about the book Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity (which he edited and to which he contributed articles)
Recorded July 27, 2011
Robin Jensen talks about her book Living Water: Images, Symbols, and Settings of Early Christian Baptism
Recorded May 6, 2011
William Franke talks about his book The Revelation of Imagination: From the Bible and Homer through Virgil and Augustine to Dante
Recorded December 2, 2010
Lenn Goodman and Richard McGregor talk about their book The Case of the Animals versus Man Before the King of the Jinn
Recorded October 26, 2010
Shaul Kelner talks about his book Tours That Bind: Diaspora, Pilgrimage, and Israeli Birthright Tourism
Recorded August 13, 2010
Dennis Dickerson talks about his books African Methodism and Its Wesleyan Heritage: Reflections on AME Church History and African American Preachers and Politics: The Careys of Chicago
Recorded July 21, 2010
Lenn Goodman talks about his book Creation and Evolution
Recorded June 14, 2010
Douglas Knight talks about his book Law, Power, and Justice in Ancient Israel
Recorded May 6, 2010