Your hosts set their hair on fire and leap into Paul's letter to the Galatians thanks to Jordan's idiosyncratic translation of the same. We learn that prepositions are the key to cosmic transformation, but only if they are filled with Spirit.

Translation: https://jordandanielwood.substack.com/p/paul-to-the-galatians

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Your hosts dig into Gregory of Nyssa like babes in a garden —only to find they’ve stumbled upon a mountain. Or have they plummeted into an ocean? Do metaphors mean anything at all anymore?

Gregory’s essay on biblical interpretation distills the patristic allegorical approach while his vision of divine ascent is a bit darkened on nuptial wine: the soul’s journey to God, turns out, is less an enlightening and more an erotic union.

With Origen hovering like a familiar ghost and Song of Songs as the textual vineyard, your hosts light some candles in Nyssa. From whence the fire?

What are we, prophets like Moses?

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We discussed the text in this edition with a new translation and notes: Richard A. Norris, Gregory of Nyssa: Homilies on the Song of Songs (SBL)

Charles talks with Jordan about two pieces he recently wrote: "Virtue and Vice as True and False Incarnation" in The Other Journal and "Fides quarens Fidem: A Premature Reflection on Teaching Theology Today" in an edited volume. Along the way: conservative and progressive pedagogy, Apple worshiping Mother Nature, Maximus, why and precisely how Jordan and Charles suck, and much more.