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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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Friday Dec 23, 2022
Breakfast with Jesus - #9 - Jeremiah and Hebrews 8
Friday Dec 23, 2022
Friday Dec 23, 2022
Tony builds on his recent talk on the new covenant in Jeremiah by exploring how the Epistle of Hebrews uses this new covenant promise in the NT. Hebrews 8 quotes the Jeremiah passage in full – the longest OT quotation in the NT. What is interesting is how the writer uses the Jeremiah passage and takes it further by explaining how the contract based law of Moses failed to deliver what God wanted.
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
2022 Conference - Leisa Aitken - Hope as a Way of Knowing
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Thursday Dec 22, 2022
Leisa finishes the year off for GC with a profound summary of her doctorate on ‘hope’. It is full of gems and very relevant for an anxious and despairing world. Her doctorate was targeted at the secular world of clinical psychology, but in this talk we get a ‘Christian’ version of this important work where Leisa can be explicit about the theological grounds for her ideas.
She aligns her work with Esther’s message on knowing as a form of desire and anticipation.
Monday Dec 19, 2022
2022 Conference - Mark Ridgeway - Knowing and Discipleship
Monday Dec 19, 2022
Monday Dec 19, 2022
This is the second of three short talks from Gospel Conversations supporters as a response to Esther Meek's Covenant Epistemology.
Mark Ridgeway explores the thought of Esther Meek in the context of Discipleship.
He follows the contours of Covenant Epistemology, explores the practice of inviting the real and concludes with some practical recommendations for the Church.
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
2022 Conference - Ron Winestock - Knowing and Cosmology
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
Thursday Dec 01, 2022
This is the first of three short talks from Gospel Conversations supporters as a response to Esther Meek's Covenant Epistemology.
In this talk Ron Winestock addresses the big questions of the universe and how Covenant Epistemology can help us see clearly through the two levels of knowing.
Ron argues that since Isaac Newton we have emphasised the focal and discredited the subsidiary.
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
2022 Conference - Esther Meek talk 3 - The Real Inviting Us
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
Tuesday Nov 29, 2022
In this closing section of the conference Esther Meek finishes with the question, how does the Real Invite Us?
Saturday Nov 26, 2022
Saturday Nov 26, 2022
In this talk Tony explores the extraordinary declaration of the ‘new covenant’ in Jeremiah 31 and asks “What is ‘new’ about this new covenant?” He argues that is far more ‘new’ than most Christians assume: it is a paradigm shift that overturns the very nature of contract and conditions.
Thursday Nov 24, 2022
2022 Conference - Esther Meek talk 3 - Inviting the Real
Thursday Nov 24, 2022
Thursday Nov 24, 2022
Esther Meek opens the afternoon session by addressing how Love invites the Real.
Saturday Nov 19, 2022
2022 Conference - Esther Meek talk 2 - How Knowing Works, Part 3
Saturday Nov 19, 2022
Saturday Nov 19, 2022
In this third and final section on Subsidiary Focal Integration Esther introduces Love as key component of her Covenant Epistemology.
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
2022 Conference - Esther Meek talk 2 - How Knowing Works, Part 2
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
Thursday Nov 10, 2022
This is the continuation of Esther's second talk where she continues to explain the practice of Subsidiary Focal Integration with an emphasis on how the concept of Integration works. At the end of the session participants are asked to share their examples of Subsidiary Focal Integration in operation.
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
2022 Conference - Esther Meek talk 2 - How Knowing Works, Part 1
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
Wednesday Nov 02, 2022
This is the first half of Esther's second talk where she introduces the concept of subsidiary focal integration.