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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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Tadionally we treat salvation as an individual event, but Ezekiel has a far wider scope. He sees the object of salvation is the whole cosmos not just individuals, and he sees the cosmos as the temple of God.
Monday Mar 04, 2024
How Moses disrupted the Ancient Near Eastern World - with Iain Provan
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Monday Mar 04, 2024
Welcome to Gospel Conversations We have an amazing backlog of great talks from great speakers and thinkers going back over a decade. So we've decided to republish some of them to supplement our ongoing offerings. We're going to begin with some seminal talks by Ian Proven.
Ian is one of the leading Old Testament scholars in the world. And he gave a wonderful series for us on Genesis in 2011. We want to start with a few of these talks because, as you know, we emphasize the creation gospel in Gospel Conversations. And obviously that demands we have a deep insight into the Genesis story, the creation story that set up the ground breaking paradigms of what became Christianity.
In this talk, Ian begins by explaining the ancient Near Eastern cosmology into which the book of Genesis came and which it challenged. By comparing and contrasting Moses view of God with ancient Near Eastern religions, he highlights some of the most fundamental paradigm shifts that belief in Yahweh gave to the world, and in so doing set up the foundations for our faith.
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
Paul and the introspective conscience
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
Sunday Feb 11, 2024
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.
Monday Jan 15, 2024
The Glory bookends of Ezekiel
Monday Jan 15, 2024
Monday Jan 15, 2024
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.
Monday Dec 18, 2023
Monday Dec 18, 2023
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.
Thursday Nov 30, 2023
Cross and Creation 7 - Which model fits best?
Thursday Nov 30, 2023
Thursday Nov 30, 2023
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
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
Breakfast with Jesus - #21 - Circle of Glory
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
Wednesday Nov 15, 2023
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.
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
GC Conference - Session 5 - An Incarnational Cosmos
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
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
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
GC Conference - Session 4 - A Divine Anthropology
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
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
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
GC Conference - Session 3 - A Cosmic Anthropology
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
Tuesday Oct 17, 2023
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