Stegall on Open Source Radio, &c.
April 13, 2006
In a few hours TNP editor-in-chief Caleb Stegall will be on Open Source Radio (live and archived shows available online) wth Garry Wills and Harvey Cox to talk about Wills’s Jesus:
The conflation of the religious and the political has become so common that we almost take it for granted. We often measure religion’s strength with the standards of political power, and have come to accept the way politicians of all stripes wield religion like a fiery sword. But when was the last time we actually talked about God? Or talked about faith separate from politics, or of the institutions that shepherd us through religious practice?
In time for Easter (the celebration of the resurrection) Garry Wills has his own mediation on faith, and specifically, on Jesus. Not the historical figure – a contradiction in terms, Wills says, an impossibility (for without the faith, and the resurrection, would we care about any supposed historical figure?) But the “divine mystery walking among men.”
Very interesting stuff, the open-source internet radio. More endless monumentalizing of Time’s shortness, no doubt. Speaking of which, Associate editor Dan Knauss has an article up today at Comment taking the “No” side in their ongoing series, “NeoCalvinism: Yes, No, Maybe?” An apt blurb summarizes the piece: “Neocalvinism is a tradition detached from the broader and longer, western intellectual tradition. It’s detached from its confessional roots, and from a catholic understanding of church. Most of all, it’s detached from ecclesial community.” It’s not all in that vein, but it has some resonance with D. G. Hart’s remarks in TNP here.
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