Two Recently Released Resources

Film & Podcast

I was alerted this past week to the release of two resources in which I took part.

The first is a documentary put out by Steven HAuse’s Youtube channel, Love Unrelenting, called The Spirit and the Text: Assessing Biblical Inerrancy. It features a rogues’ gallery of the most notorious among us, of which yours truly is perhaps most dastardly. HAuse did a very fine job editing, as usual. And I think the content is appropriately pitched to give certain kinds of Christian a sense that there are alternatives to the notion of biblical inerrancy upon which they might have been reared. I must say, having scanned some reactions to it, Christians have much to learn from their own tradition about what biblical inspiration is or entails. I have long dreamed of writing a constructive work whose central site of reflection is one of the first major controversies to rock the Church: the Marcionite controversy. Many today wield the accusation of “Marcionite” apparently without awareness that the “orthodox” refutation of Marcion entailed not reading the Bible the way many modern inerrantists do today. But that’s a topic for later. Here’s the film:

The second resource is the fruition of an 8-week online seminar on the theological vision and action (or praxis) of Maximus Confessor. Paul Axton at Forging Ploughshares has begun editing and releasing sessions from that seminar, in podcast form. Several of the sessions lasted for well over two hours. Paul edits them into digestible 50-minute podcasts. Three are already released, with several more to come. Follow this link for all those and/or subscribe to his podcast on your preferred platform.