S2 E35: Kenneth Tanner: God Becomes Human in Christ... for real.

Liminal Living

God became a human being, the incarnation, a central dogma of the Christian tradition that I was not taught in my Evangelical tradition. Well it was a messy necessity for Chgrist to be human so that the “real” dogma of substitutionary atonement was valid. Father Kenny and I dive into this concept in all its beauty today on what it means that God became human.

Father Kenneth Tanner is pastor of Holy Redeemer in Rochester Hills Michigan, writer at Sojourners, Patheos, and Substack, author of an upcoming book called Vulnerable God: Retrieving the Wonder of God-With-Us in Our Humanity, teacher, and wonderful human being.

Time Stamps for the episode:
00:31 Intro
03:40 Handing me mystery instead of answers
08:30 Mystery leads to awe and wonder
12:40 A long painful call into ministry
17:48 Grief and anxiety in ministry
22:05 The soil Father Kenny grew out of
25:41 Two responses to the Challenger tragedy
29:42 The expansive idea of God becoming human
34:39 Incarnation IS revelation of God
40:09 God’s humility in Christ is not an anomaly
45:11 The role of Mary in the Incarnation
51:49 God has a mother
57:18 Christ’s humanity is just like our humanity
1:03:32 Reading our fallenness back into God
1:07:59 Vulnerable God, the Book
1:12:43 Conclusion

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