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Willemien Otten: Medieval Wisdom for Contemporary Theology
Dr. Willemien Otten is the Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Theology and the History of Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School.
In this conversation we discuss:
How Dr Otten became a medievalist
What is missed by skipping church history between Augustine, Aquinas, to Luther
What Augustine gets right about sex and bodies
How it took to the 12th century before Priests were really celibate
The role of scripture in Medieval culture
The origin of the doctrine of Creation out of Nothing
How the revival of Bonaventure and the Franciscan tradition is generating a more lively…
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