Ep50.4 Seven Last Words: "My God, my God..." with David W. Congdon

To celebrate 50 episodes of the Love Rinse Repeat podcast, Liam Miller interviewed seven guests about Jesus' seven last words from the cross.

Here, David Congdon discusses the scandal of the words "my God, my God, why have you foresaken me?" Why there is hope in allowing these words to ring out a true disruption, resisting the urge to incorporate them neatly into our theology, piety, or liturgy.

David W. Congdon is acquisitions editor at the University Press of Kansas (overseeing the publishing program in political science and law) and adjunct instructor at the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary. His books include, The Mission of Demythologizing: Rudolf Bultmann’s Dialectical Theology, Rudolf Bultmann: A Companion to His Theology, and The God Who Saves: A Dogmatic Sketch. He also coedited (with W. Travis McMaken) Karl Barth in Conversation. His current research explores the intersection of hermeneutics, intercultural theology, and modern Protestant theology, particularly the work of Rudolf Bultmann and Karl Barth.

He is currently working on an introduction to Bultmann for Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, a Bultmann reader for Fortress Press, a volume of Barth and Bultmann’s writings during the height of their debate for Cascade Books, and an edited volume on universalism for Baker Academic. Follow him on Twitter @DWCongdon

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