Christians and Culture: Interviews With Paul Louis Metzger
By Paul Metzger
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This is the transcript of four interviews conducted with Paul Louis Metzger on the video series You're Included, by Grace Communion International. In these interviews, Dr. Metzger discusses how the church interacts with contemporary culture.
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Christians and Culture - Paul Metzger
Christians and Culture:
Interviews With Paul Louis Metzger
Copyright 2016 Grace Communion International
Published by Grace Communion International
Table of Contents
Relationships and Evangelism
The Church Should Include All Peoples
Christians Engaging Contemporary Culture
Consumer Christians, and God’s Love
About the Publisher…
Grace Communion Seminary
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Introduction
This is a transcript of interviews conducted as part of the You’re Included series, sponsored by Grace Communion International. We have more than 130 interviews available. You may watch them or download video or audio at https://learn.gcs.edu/course/view.php?id=58. Donations in support of this ministry may be made at https://www.gci.org/online-giving/.
Grace Communion International is in broad agreement with the theology of the people we interview, but GCI does not endorse every detail of every interview. The opinions expressed are those of the interviewees. We thank them for their time and their willingness to participate.
Please understand that when people speak, thoughts are not always put into well-formed sentences, and sometimes thoughts are not completed. In the following transcripts, we have removed occasional words that did not seem to contribute any meaning to the sentence. In some cases we could not figure out what word was intended. We apologize for any transcription errors, and if you notice any, we welcome your assistance.
Our guest in these interviews is Dr. Paul Louis Metzger, professor of Christian Theology and Theology of Culture at Multnomah Biblical Seminary at Multnomah University in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Metzger is founder and director of New Wine, New Wineskins. He is author of the following books:
• Beatitudes, Not Platitudes: Jesus’ Invitation to the Good Life
• Connecting Christ: How to Discuss Jesus in a World of Diverse Paths
• Consuming Jesus: Beyond Race and Class Divisions in a Consumer Church
• Evangelical Zen: A Christian’s Spiritual Travels With a Buddhist Friend (co-authored with Kyogen Carlson)
• Exploring Ecclesiology: An Evangelical and Ecumenical Introduction (co-authored with Brad Harper)
• The Gospel of John: When Love Comes to Town
• New Wine Tastings: Theological Essays of Cultural Engagement
• Setting the Spiritual Clock: Sacred Time Breaking Through the Secular Eclipse
• Trinitarian Soundings in Systematic Theology (editor)
• The Word of Christ and the World of Culture: Sacred and Secular Through the Theology of Karl Barth
The interviews were conducted by J. Michael Feazell, then Vice President of Grace Communion International.
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Relationships and Evangelism
JMF: We’re talking with Dr. Paul Louis Metzger, professor of Christian Theology and Theology of Culture at Multnomah Biblical Seminary at Multnomah University in Portland, Oregon. Dr. Metzger is founder and director of New Wine, New Wineskins, and author of several books.
He also serves as the editor of a forthcoming multi-volume series on the Scriptures for InterVarsity Press, for which he is writing the volume on John’s Gospel. His newest book is Exploring Ecclesiology, co-authored with Dr. Brad Harper [2009]. Dr. Metzger’s passion is integrating theology and spirituality with cultural sensitivity. He is a member of the Center of Theological Inquiry, Princeton, New Jersey, and developed a strategic ministry partnership with Dr. John M. Perkins called, Drum Majors for Love, Truth and Justice.
Thanks for joining us today.
PLM: Thanks, it’s great to be here, Mike.
JMF: I’d like to begin by finding out what led you into the study of theology.
PLM: I was in Northwestern College, St. Paul, Minnesota. In my junior or senior year I was interacting with a couple of professors and one, Walter Dunit, introduced me to the discipline of systematic theology and how it’s all-encompassing. While there’s the descriptive element in talking about what the church has believed in the past, there’s also that prescriptive element, about what do we believe and present today for the church and the society at large. I always had a desire to bring theology into the present context. So that was very intriguing to me in terms of that all-encompassing enterprise that also has present-day import. That’s what led me into the discipline, and the study of God, and I could think of nothing greater than the study of God and especially the triune nature of God.
JMF: Somewhere along the path you moved into Trinitarian theology. How did that go about?
PLM: I was a student at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and a couple of my professors there had encouraged me for my doctoral studies to consider applying to King’s College, London, to work with Professor Colin Gunton. He was a leading Trinitarian theologian who died a few years ago and was a major player in terms of the renaissance in Trinitarian theology. Working at King’s in London was a great introduction into Trinitarian thought forms, and it was great to be able to work with him. There were others, such as John Zizioulas, who would come in and teach and lecture, and many others as well. It was a great place to study Trinitarian theology.
JMF: You’re editor of a book called Trinitarian Soundings in Systematic Theology, in which you look at Colin Gunton and his work through the eyes of a number of authors. Maybe we could talk about that a little later. Right now, as we introduced you, we mentioned that your passion is the integration of theology and spirituality with cultural sensitivity. What is an integration of theology and spirituality? What’s the difference, and what do you mean by integration?
PLM: Theology by nature is a very integrative discipline and very much concerned for various domains of thought and life. As a