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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 14 days 37 minutes
episode 23: Trinity and Creation: How Humans continue God's act of Creation
This is part two of Tony's talk on the Trinity and creativity. Having established the intrinsical creativity character of the Trinity, he moves onto the role of humanity in this creative process as 'trinitarian agents'. At the end of the talk, he address...
episode 22: Trinity and Creation: Why did God create the Cosmos?
This talk comes in two parts. In this the first part, Tony outlines why the creative act lies at the heart of the Trinitarian Godhead. He bases this part of the talk on Jonathan Edwards' great essay "The Ends for which God Created the Worlds". Look out f...
episode 21: Introducing the Trinity: How language reflects the Trinity
Tony introduces 'language' as the archetypal view of the Trinity. He argues that the 'Trinity' is the utterly novel invention of the Christian church - it is an enigma that is unique and central to the Christian belief system. We do well to peer into it....
episode 20: Ron Winestock: Are Mind and Language as Important as Matter?
Ron takes his discussion of the new physics beyond matter to mind and language. Is matter the ultimate reality? Last time we discovered there is more mystery to matter than most people realise. But this time we move into the even more important quest...
episode 19: Ron Winestock: Matter and the New Physics
Ron opens up for us the wonder of the ‘new physics’ that restored mystery to matter in the 20th century. If you think that we get more concrete, the closer we get to atoms and molecules, you will never think that way again after hearing Ron’s talk. I...
episode 18: Mark Strom: Good and Evil
Mark explains how the knowledge of good and evil (morality and binary thinking) has captured our minds and distorts Christianity into a religion rather than life. A mind-blowing and life-changing message.
episode 16: Iain Provan: Bringing the NT and OT Together
Iain finishes by showing how we can read the NT in the light of the OT, and so get a richer reading of the NT. He uses the book of Jonah as a case study. First, he expounds Jonah as an OT text, and then he turns to the NT and some of the Jonah ...
episode 15: Iain Provan: Q & A
Ian answers lots of questions arising from his talks, and from people's general worries or questions about the 'hard questions' around God and the OT.
episode 14: Iain Provan: What Good is the Law?
Having given an overview of the Israel story Iain moves on to ask the question, "What good is the law?" to us today. He gives us a sensible and balanced view of this question, and really opens up the way for pragmatism as well as idealism.
episode 13: Iain Provan: Israel's Covenant Story
Iain gives us a breathtakingly succinct overview of the Old Testament story in this talk. He does not just summarise it, he captures the major themes through the window of covenants. This talk is worth listening to over and over again as it gives us ...