Gospel Conversations

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4.4
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19 reviews
This podcast has
100 episodes
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Explicit
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Date created
2014/05/14
Average duration
54 min.
Release period
12 days

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Gospel Conversations takes a creative approach to attaining a deeper understanding of the gospel and what it means to us today. Our speakers are not ministers, but range from a diverse community of Christian thinkers who lead their various fields of knowledge in history, design thinking, theology, philosophy, and organisational leadership—among others. Each month we host a live event in Sydney, then publish it as a podcast.

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Paul and the introspective conscience
2024/02/11
Did Paul have an introspective conscience over sin?  The answer is “no”’according to a classic article and Tony explains the reasoning in this podcast.
The Glory bookends of Ezekiel
2024/01/15
Welcome to the next installment in the Breakfast with Jesus series. There's been a long pause since I did Ezekiel chapter one. Ezekiel is such an important book and, the more I think about Ezekiel, the more it frames a lot of the gospel. 
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Cross and Creation 8 - Is penal substitution trying to answer the wrong question?
2023/12/18
In our last talk Andrew took us deeper into various metaphors for atonement – and asked which best fits scripture and gospel.  In this talk, Tony supplements that deep dive by zooming back out and asking, ‘what is the real question, for which the cross and salvation is the answer?’  He concludes that Penal Substitution is the answer to the wrong question and explains why.  He then refines the better question – a question for which adoption is a better answer.
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Cross and Creation 7 - Which model fits best?
2023/11/30
In this episode of our Cross and Creation series, Andrew continues his summarising of the metaphors for the atonement.  He argues that every metaphor has its limits and cannot be pushed universally. But he argues that the adoption/sonship model of the atonement offers the best fit for the various metaphors, and that the alternative wrath of God/judicial model narrows and even distorts the grand sweep of the gospel story.   To assist with the talk Andrew has provided a short set of Powerpoint slides on the subject. Please see the "Download Documents" link on our website page - Gospel Conversations
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Breakfast with Jesus - #21 - Circle of Glory
2023/11/15
In this talk Tony amplifies the intriguing phrase ‘Circle of Glory’ which David Bentley Hart mentioned in his final talk in our recent GC series. The phrase was coined by Gregory of Nyssa and Tony explores the extraordinary vision of the Trinity bound up in the term – and how it reveals our participation in the ‘circle of glory’. Tony does this by a detailed commentary on the original treatise of Gregory’s where ‘circle of glory’ is the climax to a transcendent vision of God and creation.
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GC Conference - Session 5 - An Incarnational Cosmos
2023/10/16
Session 5 - What is humanity’s destiny and purpose? Is heaven more like a marriage or a motel visit? In this final talk, David advocates the age-old vision of the Patristics that ‘God became human in order that humanity may become God’. This breathtaking vision is at once completely orthodox, but almost sounds blasphemous. Together Tony and David explore this vision of ‘deification’ through the work of Gregory of Nyssa and his touching homily on marriage as the culminating picture of the union between God and humanity. There are a set of notes that have been written to assist the listener to engage with this dense material. These can be found on our website - Gospel Conversations  
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GC Conference - Session 4 - A Divine Anthropology
2023/10/16
Session 4 - Is the Incarnation a master plan or a rescue plan? David builds on his epic book ‘YOU ARE GODS’ in this session, and widens our view of the incarnation from being a one-off rescue plan, to the master plan for all humanity. Clearly this is an intriguing thought, but it takes some deep conceptual shifts to absorb and that is what Tony and David dive into in the latter half of this fascinating topic. There are a set of notes that have been written to assist the listener to engage with this dense material. These can be found on our website - Gospel Conversations
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GC Conference - Session 3 - A Cosmic Anthropology
2023/10/16
Session 3 - Has the ‘supernatural/natural’ dualism messed up our view of creation?  David explains how both religious and secular thinking share a common dualism that distorts our view of reality. For the religious mind, the supernatural God becomes totally separate from the world of nature which it sees as material and fallen. So David and Tony turn to the mesmerising thought of Maximus the Confessor to find a more integrated view of God and creation in the wondrous vision of a ‘cosmic liturgy’.  And they argue that God has placed humanity at the centre of this cosmic liturgy as the conductor of the orchestra. There are a set of notes that have been written to assist the listener to engage with this dense material. These can be found on our website - Gospel Conversations
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GC Conference - Session 2 - The Religious View of Sinners
2023/10/16
Session 2 - Has ‘original sin’ distorted the Christian view of humanity? Augustine’s doctrine of original sin eventually became ‘total depravity’ and it assumes that humans are intrinsically bad and cannot desire the good. It has become the pervasive anthropology of much of Christianity – but is it right? David and Tony explore the alternative view through the theology of the great Nicholas of Cusa who declared that at heart all humans desire the good – and thus they desire God. There are a set of notes that have been written to assist the listener to engage with this dense material. These can be found on our website - Gospel Conversations
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GC Conference - Session 1 - Is the Mind a Machine?
2023/10/16
Session 1 - Is the mind a machine? Nothing is more topical than the spectre of ‘artificial intelligence’ and the grim picture of humanity it suggests. David uses our experience of thought and language to demolish the fallacies behind this mechanistic picture of thinking. But he does not end there. He lifts our vision of language from a personal experience to a participation in something bigger than all of us – transcendence and the divine mind. There are a set of notes that have been written to assist the listener to engage with this dense material. These can be found on our website -  Gospel Conversations
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PLC - Pamela Nutt Address - David Bentley Hart
2023/10/12
The 2023 Pamela Nutt lecture, sponsored by PLC, Sydney. David Bentley Hart addresses the subject, "What does Beauty tell us about God?"
The Cross and Creation - Part 6 - Metaphors
2023/10/11
In this latest edition in the Cross and Creation series, Tony and Andrew explore some of the metaphors for what happened at Calvary. None of them really fit the Penal Substitution metaphor.  They range over several metaphors like reconciliation, and redemption, but focus in on adoption and dominion; Calvary was the great battle for dominion of the cosmos, and we are adopted into that kingship won at Calvary.  The episode begins with a recap of our journey thus far.
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