S2E8: Exploration

The Theology Of...

This week, Benjamin and Ryker chart out the theology of exploration, discovering how the unknown frontier can be holy ground.

Show Notes (The Theology of Exploration) S2:E8

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Table of Contents & Timestamps:

(0:00-2:02) Introduction

(2:02-8:57) What is Exploration?

(9:27-28:30) “Exploring” the Bible

(28:52-31:55) God’s Playground

(31:55-34:50) The Open Book of Nature

(34:50-38:14) The Journey of the Christian Faith

(38:35-40:29) Adventuring in the Wrong Places

(40:29-45:25) A Whole New World...

(45:25-49:01) Outro

Key Takeaways:

• Exploration is an open-ended journey into the unknown
  
• The mundane parts of our lives are charged with with untapped exploratory potential
  
• Exploration is a key theme in the Bible, either as a good, Edenic adventure or a bad, Exilic wandering
  
• Knowing God is like exploring uncharted territory on a map
  
• The New Heavens and New Earth will be an entirely new world for us to explore
  
• Outward exploration leads to inward exploration; foreign exploration leads to domestic exploration
  

Resources:

• “Revisiting the Theology of Exploration in Times of Disorder” by Stephen D. Perry

https://providencemag.com/2020/09/revisiting-theology-space-exploration-times-disorder/

• “Christians Ought to Be the World’s Greatest Explorers” by Justin Buzzard

https://www.thegospelcoalition.org/article/christians-ought-to-be-the-worlds-greatest-explorers/

• “A Biblical Theology of the Wilderness” by Nicholas T. Batzig

https://feedingonchrist.org/biblical-theology-wilderness/

• “On Chasing One’s Hat” GK Chesterton

http://essays.quotidiana.org/chesterton/running_after_ones_hat/

• The Faith of Leap: Embracing A Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage by Michael Hirsch

https://www.amazon.com/Faith-Leap-Embracing-Adventure-Shapevine/dp/0801014158

• Fine Lines Documentary

https://www.amazon.com/Fine-Lines-Conrad-Anker/dp/B081ZXN8RV

Music

“Buzz Cut” - Luke Hall

“Begin Again” - Luke Hall

“Flute and Piano” - Luke Hall

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