Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 141

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Guests heard on Volume 141

Grant Wythoff, author of The Perversity of Things: Hugo Gernsback on Media, Tinkering, and Scientification, on the technophiliac obsessions of Hugo Gernsback, the geeky midwife of modern science fiction

Susanna Lee, author of Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction and the Decline of Moral Authority, on how the hard-boiled protagonists of crime fiction in the 1930s and ’40s were replaced by more nihilistic tough guys in the 1950s and ’60s

Gerald R. McDermott, contributor to E. L. Mascall’s Christ, the Christian, and the Church, on how the work of theologian E. L. Mascall can expose blind spots in contemporary Christian thought

Carlos Eire, author of Reformations: The Early Modern World, 1450–1650, on how and why religion became “interiorized” in the wake of the reformations of the sixteenth century

Kelly Kapic, author of Embodied Hope: A Theological Meditation on Pain and Suffering, on theology’s use of experience and why the Incarnation is the ground of Christian hope

James Matthew Wilson, author of The Vision of the Soul: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in the Western Tradition, on the beauty of truth and goodness, and on the necessity of cultivating “intellectual vision”

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