Mars Hill Radio: Alan Jacobs on Long & Influential Influence of Book of Common Prayer

Alan Jacobs is at Part 2.

https://marshillaudio.org/catalog/volume-121

MARS HILL AUDIO Journal

Volume 121

Guests on Volume 121: Daniel Gabelman, on how George MacDonald’s celebration of the “childlike” promotes levity and a joyful sense of play, rooted in filial trust of the Father; Curtis White, on the troubling enthusiasm for accounts of the human person that reduce us to mere meat and wetware; Michael Hanby, on why there is no “neutral” science, how all accounts of what science does and why contain metaphysical and theological assumptions; Alan Jacobs, on why the Book of Common Prayer has lived such a long and influential life; James K. A. Smith, on how some movements in modern philosophy provide resources for recovering an appreciation for the role of the body in knowing the world; and Bruce Herman and Walter Hansen, on Herman’s paintings and how conversing about works of art enables us to grow in understanding of the non-verbal meaning they convey.


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Part 1

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  Daniel Gabelman on how George MacDonald’s celebration of the “childlike” promotes levity and a joyful sense of play, rooted in filial trust of the Father
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  George MacDonald: Divine Carelessness and Fairytale Levity (Baylor, 2013)
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• Curtis White on the troubling enthusiasm for accounts of the human person that reduce us to mere meat and wetware
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  The Science Delusion: Asking the Big Questions in a Culture of Easy Answers (Melville House, 2013)
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• Michael Hanby on why there is no “neutral” science, how all accounts of what science does and why contain metaphysical and theological assumptions
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  No God, No Science? Theology, Cosmology, Biology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)

Part 2

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  Alan Jacobs on why the Book of Common Prayer has lived such a long and influential life
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  The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography (Princeton, 2013)
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  James K. A. Smith on how some movements in modern philosophy provide resources for recovering an appreciation for the role of the body in knowing the world
  

  Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works (Baker Academic, 2013)
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  Bruce Herman and Walter Hansen on Herman’s paintings and how conversing about works of art enables us to grow in understanding of the non-verbal meaning they convey