Our Lives Are Hidden in Christ: Interviews With George Hunsinger
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We collect here transcripts of four interviews with Dr. Hunsinger done for the video series You're Included. Dr. Hunsinger discusses the universal effectiveness of Christ's sacrifice (which does not necessitate universalism), that our lives are hidden with Christ in this time between the resurrection and the return of Christ, the importance of focusing on Christ, and a view of the eucharist that may enable ecumenical sharing of the eucharist.
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Our Lives Are Hidden in Christ - George Hunsinger
Our Lives Are Hidden in Christ:
Interviews With George Hunsinger
Copyright 2016 Grace Communion International
Published by Grace Communion International
Table of Contents
What Christ Did Was Effective for All
Our Lives Are Hidden in Christ
Focus on Christ
The Eucharist and Ecumenism
About the Publisher…
Grace Communion Seminary
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Introduction
This is a transcript of interviews conducted as part of the You’re Included series, sponsored by Grace Communion International. We have more than 130 interviews available. You may watch them or download video or audio at https://learn.gcs.edu/course/view.php?id=58. Donations in support of this ministry may be made at https://www.gci.org/online-giving/.
Grace Communion International is in broad agreement with the theology of the people we interview, but GCI does not endorse every detail of every interview. The opinions expressed are those of the interviewees. We thank them for their time and their willingness to participate.
Please understand that when people speak, thoughts are not always put into well-formed sentences, and sometimes thoughts are not completed. In the following transcripts, we have removed occasional words that did not seem to contribute any meaning to the sentence. In some cases we could not figure out what word was intended. We apologize for any transcription errors, and if you notice any, we welcome your assistance.
Our guest in these interviews is Dr. George Hunsinger, professor of systematic theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He received his PhD in 1988 from Yale University. His published works include:
The Beatitudes
Conversational Theology: Essays on Ecumenical, Postliberal and Political Themes, With Special Reference to Karl Barth
Disruptive Grace: Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth
The Eucharist and Ecumenism: Let Us Keep the Feast
Evangelical, Catholic and Reformed: Essays on Barth and Other Themes
For the Sake of the World: Karl Barth and the Future of Ecclesial Theology
How to Read Karl Barth: The Shape of His Theology
Karl Barth: Post-Holocaust Theologian? (editor)
Karl Barth and Radical Politics
Philippians (Brazos Theological Commentary)
Reading Barth With Charity: A Hermeneutical Proposal
Wiley Blackwell Companion to Karl Barth (edited with Keith L. Johnson)
Thy Word Is Truth: Barth on Scripture
Torture Is a Moral Issue: Christians, Jews, Muslims, and People of Conscience Speak Out (editor)
Type of Christian Theology (with Hans Frei and William Placher)
The interviews were conducted by Dr. J. Michael Feazell, then vice-president of Grace Communion International.
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What Christ Did Was Effective for All
J. Michael Feazell: Our guest today is George Hunsinger, Princeton Theological Seminary’s Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Systematic Theology. Dr. Hunsinger is an ordained Presbyterian minister and a major contributor to the new Presbyterian Catechism. He is author of several books, including Disruptive Grace: Studies in the Theology of Karl Barth, How to Read Karl Barth: The Shape of His Theology, and The Eucharist and Ecumenism.
Thanks for being with us today.
George Hunsinger: I’m very glad to be here. Thank you.
JMF: You’re part of the Reformed tradition as a Presbyterian minister. Could you tell our viewers something about the Reformed tradition and the role it has played in the history of Christianity?
GH: The Reformed tradition developed in the 16th century at the same time as the Lutheran Reformation. The Reformed tradition originally was based in Switzerland and southern Germany and eventually came to be associated with the name of John Calvin, but there were many different theologians who were founders, so to speak, of the Reformed tradition, and that’s why we don’t usually hear about Calvinistic
churches. You hear about Reformed churches or Presbyterian churches.
Then it spread to places like Holland and Hungary and then, in its English language versions, England and Scotland, and eventually to the United States. Our most prominent theologian historically is John Calvin. The Continental version of the Reformed tradition used the Heidelberg Catechism as its basis of instruction, whereas in the Anglo-American version and then coming into the United States, the catechisms and confessions came out of the Westminster Assembly that was held in the 17th century. The Westminster Catechisms were the English language catechisms, as opposed to the Heidelberg that was used on the Continent.
JMF: You’re also president of the Karl Barth Society of North America and you’re active in the T.F. Torrance Theological Fellowship. Can you give us some perspective on how Calvin, Barth, and Torrance fit into major theological themes today?
GH: Karl Barth has been described as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas—those were the words of Pope Pius XII. He was a larger-than-life figure who wrote a massive amount. His great work is called Church Dogmatics, but he wrote much more than that. Like Luther and Calvin, he was also a person of affairs. He played a leadership role in church and society in the course of his life. He was born in 1886 and died in 1968.
Barth is often remembered for the role he played in the confessing church, which was that element of the German Protestant Church that stood up to Hitler. Barth was the principal author of the Barmen Declaration, which now has a kind of confessional status in my own church, the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. We include that in our book of confessions.
Thomas Torrance was Karl Barth’s most important English-speaking student. Torrance went from Scotland to Basel to study with Karl Barth, and when Barth was about to retire,