Introduction

Hello and welcome to the Developments in Christian Thought Audiobook produced and delivered to you by The Panpsycast. This audiobook is composed of 24-chapters, each of which is designed to support teachers and students of the post-2016 OCR A Level in Religious Studies (UK), specifically, the Developments in Christian Thought module. 

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With that said, if you are studying another course relating to the contents of this audiobook, or if you are ‘just interested’ in theology and the history of ideas, we hope that this audiobook will still be accessible, informative and enjoyable.

This standalone audiobook was inspired by the success of our weekly show, The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast, which we highly recommend checking out at www.thepanpsycast.com. Those who have enjoyed The Panpsycast will feel right at home listening to this audiobook.

The contents of this audiobook are intended to be taught over a 2-year period. We have condensed this information down to 2-parts and 24-chapters, so expect some of the discussions to be dense, detailed and difficult. We recommend that you take your time with this audiobook – it is dense. We’ve broken each section into smaller chunks, so there are natural pauses, in which we recommend that you take a break. If you are studying this information for an exam, you will need to concentrate, you will need to take notes, and you will need to be easily amused by some very bad jokes.

The audiobook is made up of 24-chapters, equally divided into 2-parts, which have been imaginatively named Part I and Part II. 

Part I contains 12 in-depth discussions, in which we talk through the history of theological thought within Christianity (as specified by the OCR Developments in Christian Thought specification). 

In Part II, we'll be interviewing some of the biggest names in theology and philosophy. This will give you the cutting edge of thought in the topics we cover in Part I, and if you are studying for an exam, you can use the views of these scholars in your work. Each of the chapters in Part I directly correlates to an interview in Part II. For example, in Part I Chapter I, we’ll be discussing the person of Jesus Christ, and in Part II Chapter I, we’ll be discussing Jesus’ miracle work with Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, Yujin Nagasawa.

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Thank you again to Westhill Endowment and Culham St Gabriel's for making this audiobook both possible, and freely available.

Before we jump into the audiobook, I would like to introduce myself, Mr Olly Marley and Mr Andrew Horton to reflect upon what you’re about to hear…

Contents

Developments in Christian Thought: A Panpsycast Audiobook

Introduction

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Part I

Chapter I. The Person of Jesus Christ

Chapter II. Knowledge of God

Chapter III. Death and the Afterlife

Chapter IV. Augustine’s Teaching on Human Nature

Chapter V. Christian Moral Principles

Chapter VI. Christian Moral Action

Chapter VII. Liberation Theology and Marx

Chapter VIII. Gender and Society

Chapter IX. Gender and Theology

Chapter X. Religious Pluralism and Society

Chapter XI. Religious Pluralism and Theology

Chapter XII. The Challenge of Secularism

Part II

Chapter XIII. Yujin Nagasawa on Jesus’ Miracles

Chapter XIV. Daniel Hill on the Sensus Divinitatis

Chapter XV. Thom Atkinson on Surviving Death

Chapter XVI. Peter Adamson on Saint Augustine

Chapter XVII. Joseph Shaw on Christian Moral Principles

Chapter XVIII. Eric Metaxas on Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Chapter XIX. Christopher Rowland on Liberation Theology

Chapter XX. Alison Stone on Gender and Society

Chapter XXI. Michael Wilcockson on Gender and Theology

Chapter XXII. David Ford and Peter Ochs on The Scriptural Reasoning Movement

Chapter XXIII. Tim Mawson on Religious Pluralism and Theology

Chapter XIV. Daniel C. Dennett, A. C. Grayling, Rick Lewis, Galen Strawson and Steven Pinker on The Challenge of Secularism

Conclusion

Bibliography

Title, Credits and Acknowledgements

Title

Developments in Christian Thought: A Panpsycast Audiobook

By Jack Symes, Andrew Horton and Olly Marley

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Credits

Created, Produced and Edited by Jack Symes.

Researched, Written and Co-Hosted with Andrew Horton and Olly Marley.

Guest staring co-host Annabel Borthwick.

Music produced by Billy Pearce.

Artwork by Charlotte Mudd.

 

Acknowledgements

Most importantly, this project would not be possible without the support of Westhill Endowment and Culham St Gabriel's. We would like to extend our gratitude to both Westhill Endowment and Culham St Gabriel's, who have provided us with the means to produce this work and distribute it free of charge. 

To find out more about Westhill Endowment you can visit www.westhillendowment.org.

To find out more about Culham St Gabriel’s, you can find further information at www.cstg.org.uk.

Thank you to all of our fans, in particular our patrons - Aaron Maharry, Ben Bartos, Brian Smith, Dallas Moroz, David LaJeunesse, Dewaine McBride, Gilberto Morbach, Graham, Jackson Day, John Breeden, Josef Nickerson, Josiah Thorngate, Kevin Cleary, Ludwig Raal, Majed Redha, Mizrob A., Mátyás Kendli, Natalia Rucińska, Raven Thomas, Sabina Pilchova, SamEricEdge, Shaun Barber, Steven Schoeneck and Sam Cameron.

Thank you to everybody we interviewed in Part II of the audiobook, in order of appearance: Yujin Nagasawa, Daniel Hill, Thom Atkinson, Peter Adamson, Joseph Shaw, Eric Metaxas, Christopher Rowland, Alison Stone, Michael Wilcockson, David Ford, Peter Ochs, Tim Mawson, Daniel C. Dennett, A. C. Grayling, Rick Lewis, Galen Strawson and Steven Pinker.

Thank you to every member of support staff for their assistance during the organisation stages of this project. In particular, thank you to everybody who hosted recordings, including Lancaster University, the University of Liverpool, the University of Birmingham, Cambridgeshire County Library, Oxford University, New College of the Humanities, Joseph Shaw, Thom Atkinson, Michael Wilcockson, Tim Mawson and Galen Strawson.

Thank you to everybody at The Panpsycast for your continued support and hard work. Andrew Horton, Olly Marley, Gregory Miller, Thom Atkinson, Annabel Borthwick, Phoebe Light and Emily Rose Ogland – this project would not be possible without you.

On a personal note, it’s been a pleasure to meet all of our guests, but most of all work closely with my friends Olly and Andrew. Thank you to my family for all of your support. In particular, thank you to Stevie, Samuel and Maddison for not murdering me throughout this project. 

A final thank you to Sarah Hall and Daniel Hill for their invaluable mentoring and support over the past few years and throughout this project. In their own ways, they have greatly influenced The Panpsycast, and therefore, if you (the listener) do not enjoy this audiobook, you know who to blame. 

I would also like to apologise to my garden which has been neglected during the production of this audiobook.

JS