Lisa Harper on Why Theology Should Leave You in Awe

What if studying theology made you more amazed by God? My friend Lisa Harper joins me to talk about what happens when the things we learn about God change how we pray, how we parent, and how we love the people around us.

Lisa’s book Theology for the Rest of Us is the jumping-off point for our conversation. We get into what we can know about God and what remains a mystery, how the Trinity shapes the way we think about community, and why the return of Jesus is a reason for hope. Lisa also tells the story of listening to her daughter gush about her first crush and thinking, “I remember when I talked about Jesus like that.”

And yes, somehow a sausage biscuit gets thrown out a car window, and we end up talking about atonement. This is why I love talking theology with Lisa.

Chapters

0:00 Theology was meant to be lived

0:40 Can studying God deepen our love for him?

3:38 Lisa Harper and her chaotic dissertation defense

14:57 Theology for the rest of us

15:46 What we can know about God and what leaves us in awe

24:00 The Trinity and why we need community

32:30 Using theology to invite people in

34:31 Finding hope in the return of Jesus

40:05 What baptism meant to the early Christians

46:42 “I remember when I talked about Jesus like that”

51:42 When words become armor

57:58 A sausage biscuit and a lesson in atonement

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