This week, Benjamin and Ryker chart out the theology of exploration, discovering how the unknown frontier can be holy ground.
Show Notes (The Theology of Exploration) S2:E8
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Table of Contents & Timestamps:
(0:00-2:02) Introduction
(2:02-8:57) What is Exploration?
(9:27-28:30) “Exploring” the Bible
(28:52-31:55) God’s Playground
(31:55-34:50) The Open Book of Nature
(34:50-38:14) The Journey of the Christian Faith
(38:35-40:29) Adventuring in the Wrong Places
(40:29-45:25) A Whole New World...
(45:25-49:01) Outro
Key Takeaways:
- Exploration is an open-ended journey into the unknown
- The mundane parts of our lives are charged with with untapped exploratory potential
- Exploration is a key theme in the Bible, either as a good, Edenic adventure or a bad, Exilic wandering
- Knowing God is like exploring uncharted territory on a map
- The New Heavens and New Earth will be an entirely new world for us to explore
- Outward exploration leads to inward exploration; foreign exploration leads to domestic exploration
Resources:
- “Revisiting the Theology of Exploration in Times of Disorder” by Stephen D. Perry
https://providencemag.com/2020/09/revisiting-theology-space-exploration-times-disorder/
- “Christians Ought to Be the World’s Greatest Explorers” by Justin Buzzard
https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/christians-ought-to-be-the-worlds-greatest-explorers/
- “A Biblical Theology of the Wilderness” by Nicholas T. Batzig
https://feedingonchrist.org/biblical-theology-wilderness/
- “On Chasing One’s Hat” GK Chesterton
http://essays.quotidiana.org/chesterton/running_after_ones_hat/
- The Faith of Leap: Embracing A Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage by Michael Hirsch
https://www.amazon.com/Faith-Leap-Embracing-Adventure-Shapevine/dp/0801014158
https://www.amazon.com/Fine-Lines-Conrad-Anker/dp/B081ZXN8RV
Music
“Buzz Cut” - Luke Hall
“Begin Again” - Luke Hall
“Flute and Piano” - Luke Hall
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