
The InVerse Theology Project
Religion & Spirituality Podcas
A spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition for pastors interested in Celtic Christianity, and featuring the writings of T. M. Moore.
Location:
United States
Description:
A spiritual fellowship in the Celtic Christian tradition for pastors interested in Celtic Christianity, and featuring the writings of T. M. Moore.
Language:
English
Website:
https://www.ailbe.org/inverse
Email:
admin@ailbe.org
Episodes
InVerse 155 - IVT Explained, Part 12 (Appreciating Theology, Appreciating Verse)
2/3/2025
The primary reason to take up reading and studying both poetry and theology is that these can show us paths for journeying with Jesus through our lives. Poetry and theology can point us to Jesus, inviting us to consider Him in ways that can make His Presence with us more real and continuous.
Duration:00:10:36
InVerse 154 - IVT Explained, Part 11 (The Verse Essay)
12/30/2024
To many readers, poetry represents a kind of mysticism. We know the poet is trying to say something, but we’re not quite sure what it is. Perhaps he’s just inviting us to have some sort of inward and personal encounter with his words, to lead us in making our own poem out of the lines, images, structure, form, and all the rest he supplies?
Duration:00:15:32
InVerse 153 - IVT Explained, Part 10 (Baubles, Bangles, Bright Shiny Beads)
12/26/2024
We have seen that among the aspects of a work of literature which identify it as poetry are a certain employment of form, rhythm, rhyme, and image.
Duration:00:09:53
InVerse 152 - IVT Explained, Part 9 (Image and Rhyme)
7/22/2024
The heavy lifting of poetry is by the images poets choose to convey meaning and experience, together with the rhyme schemes they adopt to add musicality to the verse. Images can be of various kinds, as also can rhymes. Images and rhyme are the muscle and flesh of a poem.
Images come into play when poets use one thing to stand for another. Images are primarily of two sorts, metaphors and similes, which are simply metaphors introduced by “like” or “as”. In a metaphor a poet gives us something familiar to help us understand and experience something less familiar. A good image can make a lasting impression and convey a deeply meaningful experience.
Duration:00:14:28
InVerse 151 - IVT Explained, Part 8 (Meter and Line)
6/10/2024
We need to say a bit more about the role of meter and line and how they contribute to making verse an art form. Meter and line provide the skeleton and sinews of a poem. They give shape and rhythm to the words that hang on them stanza after stanza. The more regular they are, the more the poem “feels” like a poem. Much of contemporary poetry has thrown off all requirements of regular structure and demonstrates very little regard for meter and line as these have been practiced over the centuries in traditional English verse. I find such poems more difficult to read and appreciate, and to recall or commend. Many very fine examples of what is referred to as “free verse” exist, but I regard them as the exception. For our purposes I want to consider as an art in the long-standing tradition of the arts, those poems that honor the value of regular meter and line length.
Duration:00:12:01
InVerse 150 - IVT Explained, Part 7 (Poetry Defined)
6/3/2024
Undoubtedly, a sizeable majority of people today, including most Christians, would answer the question above, “Not I.” It’s hard enough to get people to read these days, much less to read verse. So estranged is the reading public from any diet of poetry that, not that long ago, one of our leading poets published an important book bearing the title, Can Poetry Matter?
Duration:00:14:16
InVerse 149 - IVT Explained, Part 6 (Spiritual Theology)
5/20/2024
Of course, all theology is spiritual because its object is to know God, Who is a most pure Spirit. So whether we’re doing work in Biblical, creational, historical, systematic, or practical theology, we are doing spiritual theological work.
Duration:00:15:25
InVerse 148 - IVT Explained, Part 5 (Practical Theology)
4/15/2024
The first believers in Thessalonica startled their neighbors with the dramatic difference believing in Jesus was making in their lives. It was clear to some of the people in that important Roman center that the “Christians”, as they had come to be called, were out of step with the rest of the community.
Duration:00:11:58
InVerse 147 - IVT Explained, Part 4 (Systematic Theology)
3/11/2024
God is a God of order, not confusion. He expects His people to do all things decently and in order, to reflect His character to the world (1 Cor. 14.40).
Duration:00:10:45
InVerse 146 - IVT Explained, Part 3 (Historical Theology)
1/29/2024
We don’t have to read very far in Scripture to realize two things: First, the Bible contains a good bit of history. One could go so far as to argue that the Scriptures are nothing if not an historical account of a particular people covering a certain period. The second thing we notice is that God is intimately involved with this people throughout the course of their history; and He very often appears to use historical events and figures in His dealings with His people.
Duration:00:12:19
InVerse 145 - IVT Explained, Part 2 (Creational Theology)
1/2/2024
Theology is the disciplined pursuit of the knowledge of God and His glory. Creational theology, one of six primary disciplines in the regimen of theological studies, is beginning again to receive proper attention. By this discipline a believer, standing on the foundation of Scripture and Jesus Christ, may expect to discover the glory of God in created things and be enriched thereby in wondrous and edifying ways.
Duration:00:12:18
InVerse 144 - IVT Explained, Part 1 (Biblical Theology)
11/6/2023
In his treatise, On Christian Doctrine, Augustine (354-430 AD) argued that all study of Scripture is aimed at knowing, loving, and serving God.
Duration:00:11:12
InVerse 143 - Soul Keeping, Part 5
10/16/2023
We can't care for our soul if we don't know what it is.
Duration:00:08:45
InVerse 142 - The Work We've Been Given to Do, Part 4
10/9/2023
First, work on improving your soul. Then you'll be ready to work at loving your neighbor.
Duration:00:06:34
InVerse 141 - Law of Sin in the Church, Part 4
10/2/2023
Whatever happened to Jesus' emphasis on the oneness of all believers?
Duration:00:07:55
InVerse 140 - Irish Saints, Part 12
9/11/2023
We bring to a close our all-too-brief survey of Charles Plummer's Lives of Irish Saints, to see what lessons await us there.
Duration:00:11:27
InVerse 139 - Creation's Praise, Part 5
9/5/2023
For me, experiencing the glory of God in the things of creation begins with hearing.
Duration:00:09:45
InVerse 138- The Explanation, Part 3
8/14/2023
In John 2 Jesus shows His glory for the first time. He also shows His authority over those who make a mockery of God.
Duration:00:05:50
InVerse 137- Soul Keeping, Part 4
8/7/2023
John Davies leads us to understand the state of the soul under the law of sin.
Duration:00:08:19
InVerse 136 - The Work We've Been Given to Do, Part 3
7/3/2023
There is an "order of operations" for our work. It begins in the work of sanctification.
Duration:00:06:36