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My guest today is a Swede!
Josef Gustafson.
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SHOW NOTES:
MIN 1
Original Podcast Freestyle Christianity
Background… interests and the journey to create a podcast.
EXPLAIN Catacombic Theologian /
A desiring theology of becoming.
MIN 3:00 Education and a distaste for academia and models and formulas created there.
4:30
Explaining the name “freestyle Christianity”
experimental and a space that is open and with no doorkeepers.
And giving up the name
7:30 Religious background in childhood and how that’s changed
YWAM (Youth With a Mission)
10:00 Reading apologetic and learning about the boogie men of Evangelicals
Philosophy and Theologian as neighbors and a matter paychecks
12:30
Catacombic Theology explained in brief
asking to explain in old categories
Henri Berson
Taught to answer specific questions to guide our search for truth…. we should be shaping the questions.
We confuse the less with the more.
15:30
Why is there always something NEW?
17:30
• [Society] becomes oppressive because eventually the powerful decide the categories.
Sacrifice and squeezing in other groups into a form that wasn’t ever might for them and oppressive.
19:00 Cathedrals – catacombs in the basement. It may not reflect truth. It reflects what is being preached.
Re-present what we think is the truth. Not trying to re-present something.
Our theology (our cathedrals represent the people who built it.). We build boards (whether we see them or not and they function in an exclusive fashion.
The proclamation the church made that the spirit doesn’t move outside the Father or Son and the Son is found in the Church. (inside)
In theology, difference is looked at as if is presupposes opposition.
But it’s the other way around, opposition presupposes difference.
Novelty
26:00
EXAMPLE: the Internet and new categories .
The Pope follows no one back on Twitter, because an old institution is misunderstanding a new category of communication.
27:30
How do the people of the Church gather in a way that works?
PETE ROLLINS episode & pints and parable
HERE THE EPISODE WITH PETE ROLLINS:
Twitter democratizes people and strips off labels of an old (pre digital) world.
New hierarchies are being created online where added a meaningful contribution makes you an important member.
Humans continue to have the same desire to connect (in-person) and gather.
The challenge of being present when you gather in person.
34:00
Church of Sweden
37:00
The growth of Pentecostalism worldwide.
38:30
Hillsong Church in Sweden drawing young people
39:30
Americanizes version of Christianity on the continent of Africa
40:00 Where the podcast is going.
Challenge themselves creativity but living in the algorithms that keep you in an echo chamber.
Bringing on guests that make subscribers uncomfortable.
Collaboration
Freestylechristianity.se
thecatacombicmachine.com on iTunes
@josefgustafsson
Catherine Keller theologian the dark and the light find what we can’t see in the light.
48:00
Be prepared to be unprepared for the novel and the new for that which will rupture our understand about what it truth and what is good.
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