Christopher Southgate: Suffering, Trauma, and the Glory of God

Dr. Christopher Southgate is a biochemist turned influential theologian...who just happens to be a well published poet.  (Read this powerful one... when it is safe to cry). Southgate is a Professor at Exeter University in the UK and part of the 'God and the Book of Nature' project I am working on. Since recording this interview I have had the chance to spend time with him and am enthusiastic to introduce him to many of you.

In this conversation we discuss...

• • The changing shape of the religion and science conversation
  • how has the scientific study of religion itself shaped a scientifically engaged theology from a particular tradition
  • the problem of evil and suffering in nature
  • the free will defense in the face of natural evil
  • the "lazy default in Christian thinking"
  • Irenaeus wasn't Irenaean?
  • the Christian need to recover immanence
  • what is divine glory?
  • the Biblical protest of God and the need for its presence in worship
  • "humankind cannot bear much of reality"
  • theologizing with Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotics
  • trauma and the community of faith

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