The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Rob Bradshaw <- Back to Episodes Rob Bradshaw, TheologyontheWeb.org.uk Rob Bradshaw, librarian at Spurgeon’s College in south London, has been digitizing articles, journals and books for 20 year to provide people around the world access to high value theological resources. His website, www.theologyontheweb.org.uk, is a hub for a variety of websites that links pastors, students and teachers with resources in biblical studies, theology, church his...
Jan 19, 2021•22 min
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Andrew Abernethy <- Back to Episodes Andrew Abernethy, God's Messiah in the Old Testament Andrew Abernethy, PhD Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, is a former colleague of David Capes at Wheaton College. He is an Associate Professor of Old Testament at Wheaton College and Degree Coordinator for the Master of Arts in Biblical Exegesis. He is author of many articles, but the focus of this podcast is a book he wrote along with Dr. Gregory Goswell...
Jan 12, 2021•21 min
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Anne Clements former Minister West Kingsdown Baptist Church, Kent , UK <- Back to Episodes Anne Clements, Mothers on the Margin? Anne Clements, PhD Spurgeon College (2012), has written an interesting book called Mothers on the Margin? The Significance of the Women in Matthew’s Genealogy (Pickwick Publications, 2014). At one time she was struggling with her call to ministry: some endorsed her call, others said she was violating Scripture. This la...
Jan 01, 2021•22 min
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Bruce Chilton, PhD Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion Bard College <- Back to Episodes Bruce Chilton, Resurrection Logic: Dying and Rising Gods (Part 2) In part two Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Professor of Religion at Bard College (New York), continues his conversation with David Capes about elements of his book, Resurrection Logic: How Jesus’ First Followers Believed God Raised Him from the Dead (Baylor University Press, 2019). How d...
Dec 21, 2020•19 min
The Stone Chapel Podcasts Hosted by David Capes Bruce Chilton, PhD Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion Bard College <- Back to Episodes Bruce Chilton, Resurrection Logic (Part 1) In part one of this podcast Bruce Chilton, Bernard Iddings Professor of Religion at Bard College (New York), discusses his new book Resurrection Logic: How Jesus’ First Followers Believed God Raised Him from the Dead (Baylor University Press, 2019). His question is not so much “what happened?” but, how it happ...
Dec 20, 2020•26 min
<- Back to Episodes Ben Blackwell and Randy Hatchett-Engaging Theology Ben Blackwell, Associate Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at HBU, and Randy Hatchett, Professor of Theology and Philosophy, also of HBU, have written a new book: Engaging Theology: A Biblical, Historical, and Practical Introduction (Zondervan, 2019). The book demonstrates the relevance of “engaging” theology rather than just thinking about God, the world and humanity. The authors, while seasoned, do a great...
Dec 15, 2020•21 min
<- Back to Episodes Terry Cokenour - Ambiguity in the Apologetics of C. S. Lewis Terry Cokenour, a patron of the library, stopped by to talk with David Capes about his doctoral thesis at the London School of Theology. Here is his title: “An Invitation to Thought: Ambiguities in the Apologetics of C. S. Lewis.” Terry has been coming to the Lanier Theological Library since 2011 with a lengthy pause when he served as a missionary and church leader in Budapest, Hungary. He talks about how he came...
Dec 14, 2020•20 min
<- Back to Episodes Tim Brookins - Corinthian Wisdom Tim Brookins, Associate Professor of Classics at Houston Baptist University, talks with David Capes regarding his book, Corinthian Wisdom, Stoic Philosophy, and the Ancient Economy (SNTS Monograph Series 159: Cambridge University Press, 2014. He challenges recent scholarship and makes the claim that "the wise man" of 1 Corinthians is not a person of rhetorical prowess but a philosopher with a bent toward Stoicism. They talk about the value ...
Dec 14, 2020•20 min
<- Back to Episodes John Behr - Reading Scripture Allegorically In part two of our podcast, Dr. John Behr (patristics professor, formerly of St. Vladimir’s Seminary, now at the University of Aberdeen) makes another provocative statement: “Unless we read the Bible allegorically, we are not reading it as Scripture.” In the early church, what they remembered about Jesus was reflected through the passion in light of Scripture, that is, the Old Testament. He ends the podcast making some recommenda...
Dec 07, 2020•18 min
<- Back to Episodes John Behr We Have a Book Called 'the Book' Patristic expert, Dr. John Behr (PhD, Oxford), tells the story of how he came to the Orthodox faith. After discussing some of the differences between the Orthodox and Protestant faiths, he proposes that one difference is the problem: “we have a book called ‘The Bible’ (‘the Book’). The fact that we divide it into two parts, the Old Testament and the New Testament, means that we miss something fundamental. The post TSC_021 John Beh...
Dec 01, 2020•15 min
<- Back to Episodes Katya Covrett-Status of Women in Academic Publishing Katya Covrett, executive editor of Zondervan Academic, talks with David Capes about the challenges women scholars face in getting into academic publishing. The challenge is not unique to publishing in biblical studies and theology but in other disciplines as well. Zondervan has made great strides in publishing quality academic books with women as authors and editors. Still, Covrett argues, it will take strategic cooperat...
Dec 01, 2020•17 min
Craig Evans and Jeremiah Johnston--Scribes and Their Remains In this podcast, David Capes talks with Craig Evans, John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins at Houston Baptist University, and Jeremiah Johnston, founder and president of the Christian Thinkers Society, about their new book Scribes and Their Remains (T. & T. Clark, 2019). Scholars have a growing interest in the artifacts of early Christianity, particularly the book culture and the scribes who produced them. We di...
Nov 22, 2020•23 min
<- Back to Episodes Michael Thomson--Wipf and Stock/Cascade, A Publishing House on the Rise Michael Thomson, acquisitions editor for Wipf & Stock/Cascade, discusses his journey into academic publishing and the unique mission Cascade/Wipf & Stock has in providing resources for pastors and academics alike. He laments the loss of Christian bookstores in colleges and communities as people buy more and more of online. The post TSC_026 Michael Thomson: Wipf & Stock Publishing first appe...
Nov 20, 2020•25 min
<- Back to Episodes Margaret Diddams--Home by a Different Route: Finding Resilience in Lamentations The post TSC_033 Margaret Diddams: Home by a Different Route: Finding Resilience in Lamentations first appeared on Lanier Theological Library .
Nov 20, 2020•24 min
<- Back to Episodes Peter Williams--Tyndale House: Past, Present, Future Dr. Peter Williams, principal of Tyndale House, Cambridge University, joined David Capes on “The Stone Chapel” to talk about the history and mission of Tyndale House at Cambridge. Since 1944 Tyndale House has served as a place where evangelical Christian scholars can find great resources, community and solace as they write their books and articles. With Covid-19, of course, there have been challenges. Listen particularly...
Nov 12, 2020•24 min
<- Back to Episodes Nijay Gupta--Paul and the Language of Faith Nijay Gupta, Professor of New Testament at Northern Seminary, Chicago, IL, zoomed in with David Capes recently to talk about his book, Paul and the Language of Faith (Eerdmans Publishing, 2020). This is what Michael Bird of Ridley College (Melbourne, AUS) said about the book: “Nijay Gupta presents here the best contemporary exploration of the meaning of ‘faith’ and ‘believing’ in the Christian Bible. He leaves no stone unturned a...
Oct 28, 2020•19 min
<- Back to Episodes Mark Lanier-The Stone Chapel Mark Lanier joins David Capes to talk about his inspiration to build the Stone Chapel in his "backyard." He goes over several features of this beautiful structure where most of The Stone Chapel Lectures have taken place over the last decade. The post TSC_030. Mark Lanier-The Stone Chapel first appeared on Lanier Theological Library ....
Oct 28, 2020•19 min
<- Back to Episodes Mark Lanier-Torah for Living Mark Lanier joins David Capes at the Lanier Theological Library to talk about his recent book, Torah for Living: Daily Prayers, Wisdom and Guidance. He discusses how he came to write the book and why he thinks Christians should read the first five books of the Bible--Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy--in their devotions. He gives some examples and whets our appetite for how God spoke and continues to speak through the Torah. T...
Oct 28, 2020•21 min
<- Back to Episodes Mark Lanier-The Lanier Theological Library Mark Lanier, founder and president of The Lanier Theological Library, spent some time recently with David Capes in his office to talk about the history and mission of the library, The Stone Chapel (not the podcast but the real Stone Chapel), and the library foundation. This podcast originally appeared as an episode of Exegetically Speaking, a podcast of the friends and faculty of Wheaton College. The post TSC_025 Mark Lanier-The L...
Oct 28, 2020•7 min
<- Back to Episodes From Russia to Zondervan - Katya Corvette Katya Covrett, executive editor for Zondervan Academic, talks about her journey from Russia to Bible College translator to graduate student to become the face of Zondervan Academic. She discussed the history and unique mission of the press. She offers good advice for how to get published and avoid the mistakes authors make. The post TSC_020 Katya Corvett-From Russia to Zondervan Academic first appeared on Lanier Theological Library...
Oct 28, 2020•25 min
<- Back to Episodes Craig Evans - A 1st Century Copy of Mark? Not so fast . . . Dr. Craig Evans, John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins at Houston Baptist University, discusses reports that scholars may have discovered a fragment of the Gospel of Mark that dates from the late 1st century. Through a good deal of hi-jinx and intrigue the fragment has recently been published. It is not late 1st century as early reports suggest, but late 2nd or early 3rd century. Still it is th...
Oct 28, 2020•26 min
<- Back to Episodes Joseph Shulam-Jesus in the Talmud Joseph Shulam, Christian minister and Hebrew scholar who leads a messianic congregation in Jerusalem, shares how Jesus figures in the Talmud, a collection of rabbinic discussions from the 1st to the 5th centuries AD. He argues the negative reports among the rabbis actually corroborate aspects of the biblical accounts in the Gospels. The post TSC_018 Joseph Shulam – Jesus in the Talmud first appeared on Lanier Theological Library ....
Oct 26, 2020•16 min
