This Week in Seminary
It is a travesty that zesty theological material is often inaccessible to the majority of people due to time, money, and lack of relatability. Join M.Div student Micah Auten each week as they share theological resources straight from the ivory tower to the paved street. If you’re looking for faithful, ideological reflection this show is for you!
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This Week in Seminary
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It is a travesty that zesty, left wing, theological material is often inaccessible to the majority of people due to lack of time, money, and ease of access. Join M.Div student Micah Auten each week as they share theological resources straight from the ivory tower down to the paved streets. If you’re looking for faithful, ideological reflection this show is for you!
My Website: https://micahmedia0.wordpress.com/
Questions? Email me at micahauten@outlook.com
Music by Oleksandr Stepanov and Ikoliks from Pixabay
All right, what is up, Saints and Skinners? I'm your host, Micah Otten, and this is This Week in Seminary, podcast where I summarize and share with you readings from the Ivory Tower down to the Pave Street. It's been a while, so let's get into it. So it's been a while. I'm sorry I've been absent. I've been taking Greek. That is uh one of my least proficient sorts of classes. I don't do languages well, and I was basically spending four to five days a week just trying to struggle through getting perhaps a C in that class. I haven't looked at my grade. So I apologize. I am hoping to get back on track with a consistent schedule. However, after talking with some people at the Presbyterian trying to figure out my graduation plans, I realized that if I want to graduate in a year, I'm gonna have to go up to being a full-time student, in addition to all the other things I do. So, with that being said, in the next two months at least, I would like to do another unit on trans theology. I'm already prepping it for the church that I go to, so it would be relatively easy to pop that onto my website and add some photos and some other things, and then just go over it for this podcast. So look forward to that in the next month or so. And I'm also really hoping to do a unit on Christian materialism, specifically a philosophy of Christian materialism, entangled fidelities and the public good by Christian Baker, Thomas A. James, and John Reeder. And the reason that I'm interested in that is because at this point in my seminary journey, I am more or less a realist. I am more or less a liberal theologian. And what I mean by that is I am not a fideist, fideist, however it's pronounced. I do think that there are external controls to what theology can say that are not determined by just the Bible. I think you have to use your brain, logic, reason, the best of whatever culture you're in. And so that that places me pretty firmly in the more liberal tradition rather than a orthodox or neo-orthodox tradition. And so I just want to start bringing those resources to the forefront and really presenting those arguments for okay, not everything, I mean everybody except for a very small minority of Christians agrees that like there are significant logical contradictions in the Bible. And so there's different ways of parsing that out. But if we take that assumption that we have to be intelligent and critical when reading the Bible, what does that look like? What are some resources to parse it out? And I don't think that Christian materialism is necessarily the best way of doing that, but I do really love the attention to details, the attention to power analysis, which is still super underdeveloped in modern theology, and a bunch of other things I think can be helpful for fleshing out how Christianity relates to the public realm. So I'm hoping to do a really long project on that. And then finally, once school gets going, I'm hoping to try to do one project a month. So I'm going to be taking three classes, so trying to post every week is probably not going to happen. But I'm thinking if I have a whole month to do it, then I will be able to do it well. So I am sorry that it's been such a long break. Hopefully, we're going to get back to a consistent schedule here. And in the meantime, I've uploaded some pieces of work to my website that I would be more than happy for some of y'all to check out. And otherwise, that's it. This is just a short little pop-in to say hello. I know I've been gone. So thank you for listening. As always, if you have any questions, please email me at micaauden at outlook.com. And if you enjoyed this podcast, please consider liking and sharing with friends and family. And until next time, we'll be sending this weekend.