#17 - An Interview by James Mumford, PhD.

Episode #17 - An Interview by James MumfordThe philosopher and essayist James Mumford (and yes, for those who have heard the rumor, he is the brother of Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons fame) recently interviewed me for an article he was writing. The chief topic was the second edition of my translation of the New Testament, and the conversation ranged over a broad variety of topics: the absence of any opposition between grace and nature in the Apostle Paul's thought, as of any opposition between nature and supernature; the social teachings of Jesus in the synoptics, and how thoroughly obscured they can become in traditional translations; the myth of a fallen archangel called Lucifer; the nature of the Logos in the fourth gospel; the meaning of "koinōnia" in the New Testament; the "new perspective" on Paul; the eschatology of the synoptics; universalism; allegorical exegesis; Thomists and fundamentalists; the nature of inspiration in "inspired" texts; and so forth and so on.