Homebrewed Christianity Podcast

Dr. Willemien Otten is the Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Theology and the History of Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School. In this conversation we discuss: How Dr Otten became a medievalist What is missed by skipping church history between Augustine, Aquinas, to Luther What Augustine gets right about sex and bodies How it took to the 12th century before Priests were really celibate The role of scripture in Medieval culture The origin of the doctrine of Creation out of Nothing How the revival of Bonaventure and the Franciscan tradition is generating a more lively account of nature How theology changes when the doctrine of nature is more than the canvas of salvation history Why Dr. Otten finds the Barthian rejection of natural theology unconvincing The role of nature for theological reflection in a secular age The problem of Protestantism doctrine of stewardship How to talk about books you havent read and become a strategic non-reader