Church Podmatics
Church Podmatics is a cheerful conversation about theology in a cheerless age. On each episode we take a new or significant essay in theology and think it through from the perspective of Christian faith and ministry. Our hosts: The Rev Dr Andrew Errington (Sydney, Australia: Rector of Newtown-Erskineville Anglican Church)Matthew Mason (Salisbury, UK: Tutor in Christian Ethics at The Pastors Academy, Chaplain at Moorlands College, Theologian-in-Residence at Evangelicals Now)The Rev Dr Matt Wilcoxen (Sydney, Australia: Rector at St John's Darlinghurst)
Church Podmatics
Does the Gospel Require Self-Sacrifice? Paul and the Reconfiguration of the Self
In Matt Wilcoxen’s absence, Andrew Errington & Matthew Mason explore John M. G. Barklay’s Does the Gospel Require Self-Sacrifice? Paul and the Reconfiguration of the Self, (Studies in Christian Ethics, Vol 36, Issue 1, February 2023) in which he challenges the notion that ‘exclusive altruism’ or total self-sacrifice is the lens through which we are to understand Christian ethics. He explores the various passages of Philippians which often are used toward seeing Christian love through this lens.