Relevancy22: Contemporary Process Christianity: Post-Evangelic Topics and Theology: May 1, 2023

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I'm listing all of Pete Enn's works which can be found on his website and his YouTube video channel. As there is a lot I'm hoping this posting will help in sorting through it to find what you want or may be interested in.

As with my writings here at Relevancy22, Pete has been working through a jumble of theologies sorting out what to keep, what to throw out, or simply update by way of church teachings.

After 2000 years of church history we need to do this every now and again just as you would with your own housekeeping chores preventing mold, bacteria, infections, rats, bugs, and so on. Denominational and Sectarian theologies can become a mess after a while. Not all of it is healthy, helpful, or necessary. It becomes outdated, misunderstood, inappropriately applied nto wrong or harming circumstances, and so on.

For myself, I have been working off a Covenantal Reformed bible foundation towards what I now call Process (Christian) Theology (as vs. Process Religion, which is also cool, but not Christ-centered). To do that, I had to work through unhelpful earlier Reformed philosophies based on Greek Hellenism, Scientific Reductionism-and-Mechanism, Aristotelian forms of Catholic Scholasticism, and various forms of Western/Euro-American Analytical Thought (centered in isolating binary thought, disconnectedness, etc.)

Keeping what I could from the above list I have been actively supplementing these perspectives first by using forms of Continental Philosophy (metanarrativism, phenomenology, existentialism, Jungian archetypes, etc) and lately have been recentering all onto Whitehead's Process Philosophy to form a Christian-based Process Theology.... As an aside, having not been educated in Middle-Eastern, Asian, Oceanic, or Native Tribal Religions and Philosophies I cannot speak to those perspectives but wish to stay open to any process-based elements within them.

Hence, over the recent years I have worked through my Christian past recreate a Process-based Christian Theology of Love. Similarly, Mr. Enns has been doing the same against his own personal background. I've also noticed that Pete is recently becoming (2021??) more familiar with Process-based Christian Theology, like myself, using Whitehead as a basis.

But decades earlier Pete and I started with the basics of traditional Christianity as interpreted to us by our denominations or bible churches. That is, because of where we were at, we now can know in what directions we must go when testifying of God's love through Jesus Christ and his atoning work. So that after many years of prayer, study, research, ministry, and dialogue we each are being moved by the Spirit of God to speak up in our separate ways that the church might course-correct towards healthier forms of witness and testimony, living and ministrations.

I should also state that it is nearly impossible to make a personal change after so many years of heavy persuasion in our creedal lanes of faith. The task required a lot of epistemic humility coupled with large, large doses of curiosity importantly led by the Holy Spirit, the Giver of such gifts including the gift of spiritual discernment. If not for this latter gift of discernment, I'm afraid both Pete and myself would have gone "astray" many times along the "forking paths" promising answers and solutions as would seem good to the human soul. Thankfully, the Spirit gave to us a healthy dose of discontent measure by spiritual burden and aggravation by what we have been seeing over the years.

And because of Pete's departure from his university "day-job," he has been forced into deconstructing his faith - along with the equally difficult job of reconstructing his faith. I had to do the same as well... which for me became a very dark wilderness for a very long time until the Lord lifted me out of my "imprisonment" with a deep burden to work out my faith as publically as I could with little to no help to measure my thoughts and directions by.

I imagine Pete has gone through the same. For without a period of suffering and brokenness, new birth and new life really cannot begin. During my time "in soul prison" or "soul wilderness" I prayed not to leave my dark pit until God was ready to delivery me. I feared that if I left my pain and sorrow too soon I would be no good for the Lord's use.

And mind you, this pit was the removal of all I had known or believed. It left me questioning everything. But the most curious thing was that my faith stayed firm as did the Spirit's presence though in a strange way God had left me and placed brass doors between himself and me. I cannot explain this paradox. But it became my new beginning point from which I either stayed or eventually left.

And so, I stayed until, like the Apostle Paul, I was seasoned by the Spirit that I might begin a new, resurrected ministry unlike anything previous I had undertaken. Ditto, I imagine, with Mr. Enns when cast out from the ivory towers into the work-a-day world of lost faith conviction and scraped testimony. Thomas Jay Oord is another name I know of who has had similar experiences as well. To be a teacher is to first become a learner, then a discerner, and finally one with a great burden. Which is why the bible says not to desire its office... it is a difficult office which either binds or frees one's listeners.

In summary, I've listed all I could find from Pete Enn's websites from first to last; from old playlists to new playlists. And from last to first; from old videos to new videos. On a previous post I have also have listed Pete and Jarad's current books in print. Sincerely, I pray their work and ministry be amazingly helpful both now and in the years ahead for all who come with heavy hearts and troubled souls.

Blessings,

R.E. Slater

May 1, 2023

THE BIBLE FOR NORMAL PEOPLE

Website - https://thebiblefornormalpeople.com/about-b4np/

~ Playlists are current through February 2024 ~

YouTube

Playlists/Podcasts

https://www.youtube.com/@TheBibleforNormalPeople/playlists

Season 1 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXq_nGjou6qtUDGMDBo-ChPVdKzN0ZcX3

Season 2 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXq_nGjou6qsJXH03rAEfLJfnibO_WNnP

Season 3 - unfound

Season 4 - unfound

Season 5 - unfound

Season 6 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXq_nGjou6quxmNXbHmk1QUDg2b3tPcQR

SEASON 1

2017.0-23

IN ORDER

06:52 Episode 0: Introduction, with Pete Enns and Jared Byas

49:26 Episode 1: Rob Bell - What Is The Bible?

60:08 Episode 2: Richard Rohr - A Contemplative Look at The Bible

51:08 Episode 3: Rachel Held Evans - Unraveling and Re-Raveling the Bibl

42:36 Episode 4: Walter Brueggemann - Resurrecting the Bible

63:20 Episode 5: Mike McHargue - That Topic that Isn't Going Anywhere

49:13 Episode 6: AJ Levine - Jesus, Judaism, and Christianity

45:58 Episode 7: Pete Enns & Jared Byas: Teaching the Bible to Your Children

58:55 Episode 8: Kent Sparks - Where Did the Israelites Come From?

56:59 Episode 9: Daniel Kirk - Understanding The Human Jesus

41:44 Episode 10: Pete Enns - The Israelites Believed in Many Gods.

62:48 Episode 11: Benjamin D. Sommer - Jewish Views on the Bible

46:14 Episode 12: Pete Enns and Jared Byas - Faith and Doubt

45:18 Episode 13: Marc Brettler - On Being a Jewish Biblical Scholar

52:12 Episode 14: Matthew Vines - The Bible and The Gay Christian

50:55 Episode 15: Brian Zahnd - Violence in the Bible

53:08 Episode 16: Ellen Davis - What is the Practical Value of the OT?

47:08 Episode 17: Denis Lamoureux - The Bible, Evolution, & Christian Faith

34:53 Episode 18: Jared Byas - Taking the Bible Seriously But Not Literally

49:18 Episode 19: Megan DeFranza - The Bible and Intersex Believers

58:24 Episode 20: Diana Butler Bass- The Bible as Experience & Relationship

58:50 Episode 21: Jon D. Levenson - Resurrection in the Hebrew Bible

51:08 Episode 22: 5 Things Jesus Wants You to Know about the Adam Story

49:35 Episode 23: Beverly Gaventa - What is The Book of Romans Trying To Do?

SEASON 2
2018.24 -72

IN ORDER

Monday, May 1, 2023

UPDATED: Pete Enns - Podcasts & Videos for Normal People