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4.30 Kyle Claunch, David Schrock, Stephen Wellum • Interview • “God the Father: Namesake of all Fatherhood”
Episode 170
62 Min
July 2, 2025
ABOUT THE EPISODE
Listen in as David Schrock and Stephen Wellum interview Kyle Claunch on his Christ Over All essay: "God the Father: Namesake of all Fatherhood"
Timestamps
00:26 – Intro
03:45 – Dr. Wellum’s Highlights of Travel to the UK and Ireland
05:56 – Kyle Claunch’s Forthcoming Book
07:48 – Where are the Challenges of Feminist Language for God Coming From?
17:41 – Analogical, Univocal, and Equivocal Language
20:34 – What Does Amy Peeler Argue about God?
26:17 – Is there Ever a Non-Metaphorical Language that is Used for God?
31:59 – Does EFS Theology Drive Amy Peeler’s View of the Trinity and Metaphorical Language?
35:42 – Proper and Figurative Language
42:13 – The Value of Being Precise in Our Language Towards God
47:31 – The Essential and Personal Nature of God the Father
54:57 – How Do These Things Help Us Begin to Reflect the Fatherhood of God?
57:49 – Final Thoughts from Dr. Wellum
59:41 – Outro
Resources to Click
“God the Father: Namesake of All Fatherhood”
– Kyle Claunch
“Theological Language and the Fatherhood of God: An Exegetical and Dogmatic Account”
– Kyle Claunch
“On the Improper Use of Proper Speech: A Response to Ronald W. Pierce and Erin M. Heim, ‘Biblical Images of God as Moter and Spiritual Formation’”
– Kyle Claunch
Theme of the Month:
The Paterfamilias: Making Fatherhood Great Again
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Books to Read
Post Reformation Reformed Dogmatics
– Richard Muller
Theoretical Practical Divinity, Vol. 2: Faith in the Triune God
– Petrus Van Mastricht
Reformed Dogmatics, Vol. 2: God and Creation
– Herman Bavinck
Summa Theologiae Book 1
– Thomas Aquinas
“Baptists, Sola Scriptura, and the Place of Christian Tradition,” in
Baptists and the Christian Tradition
– ed. Matthew Emerson, Christopher Morgan & R. Lucas Stamps
John Gill’s Commentary of the First Letter of John –
John Gill
She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological
Discourse
–
Elizabeth A. Johnson
Women and the Gender of God
– Amy Peeler
Discovering Biblical Equality: Biblical, Theological, Cultural, and Practical Perspectives
– eds. Ronald W. Pierce, Cynthia Long Westfall, et. al
The Father and the Feminine: Exploring the Grammar of God and Gender
– Spencer Miles Boersma
The Same God Who Works All Things: Inseparable Operations in Trinitarian Theology
– Adonis Vidu
On Classical Trinitarianism: Retrieving the Nicene Doctrine of the Triune God
– eds. Matthew Barrett and Todd Billings
ON THIS EPISODE
Kyle Claunch
Kyle Claunch
,
David Schrock
,
Stephen Wellum
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