Michael Northcott is Professor of Religion and Ecology, Indonesian Consortium of Religious Studies, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia and Professor Emeritus at the University of Edinburgh. While he was in town between semesters in Indonesia we got to connect in his home office for energizing and nerdy conversation that covers quite a bit of ground including...

how a factory job ruined systematic theology
class consciousness and Christian socialism
Schleiermacher, Barth, Tillich, and the socialist decision
the Protestant problem with preaching scripture
the birth of Radical Orthodoxy
the religious predicament of modernity
the task of being a member of a living tradition
"Do Angels exist?"
"the original sin is plant selection... the only life that is good on the planet is life we control, for we are the only beings with mentality and deserve the honor."
"the biggest problem in systematic theology is its obsession with first cause and the inability to acknowledge multiple agencies"
the connection between reductive accounts of agency and the political craziness in the US and UK
why the bread at the Eucharist matters
contemporary alienation from nature and community
encountering nature anew and Jane Goodall
the role of faith in ecological activism
Michael mentions Saving Paradise: How Christianity Traded Love of This World for Crucifixion and Empire

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