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Nov 23, 2015 —
Robert Wright & David Carr
- How personal trauma inspired David’s book on trauma and the Bible
- Ancient Israel’s transition from polytheism to “monolatry”
- The Babylonian exile and the birth of Abrahamic monotheism
- The link between trauma and God’s covenant with Israel
- Why the crucifixion of Jesus shocked his followers
- Why have Biblical texts survived?
Nov 20, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Paul Knitter
- A Catholic questions whether Jesus is the “one and only savior”
- How Paul integrates Buddhism and Christianity
- Paul: Jesus, like the Buddha, “fully woke up”
- How “interbeing” leads to loving thy neighbor
- Meditation, the Eucharist, and the feeling that “all is well”
- Paul: Peace in the world starts with peace within yourself
Oct 24, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Aliou Niang
- Parallels between Christianity and Africa’s Diola religion
- Essential Diola ritual practices
- How economics caused the French Imperial powers to suppress the Diola tradition
- The land as a “living being”
- Aliou’s path to Christianity via Diola and Sufi traditions
- Reading Paul’s Epistle to the Galatians from a Diola perspective
Sep 9, 2015 —
Robert Wright & John Thatamanil
- Paul Tillich’s conception of God as “the ground of being”
- Viewing the Christian tradition as symbolic, not literal
- Tillich’s engagement with Eastern mysticism
- How Tillich wrestled with the problem of evil
- Tillich’s recasting of the idea of divine revelation
- Is there consolation in Tillich’s view of death?
Aug 22, 2015 —
Robert Wright & Jerusha Lamptey
- Why Jerusha doesn’t call her path to Islam a “conversion”
- Jerusha: In Islam, science and belief are not in opposition
- Constructing a Muslim feminist theology
- Taqwa, the egalitarian idea of “God consciousness”
- What the Koran says about the salvation of non-Muslims
- Female Muslim scholars are between a rock and a hard place
Aug 15, 2015 —
Robert Wright & John Thatamanil
- The Hindu idea that you are one with the universe
- Moral implications of this idea of oneness
- How different are Hindu and Buddhist philosophy?
- Grappling with the Buddhist doctrine of “emptiness”
- Connecting Hindu belief with the Christian Trinity
- John: No, believers are not all “climbing the same mountain
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