An Oral History of the Church

An Oral History of the Church


Latest Episodes

Vol. 2 Ep. 8 Examples of History Writing
February 10, 2017

Unkar Plutt rewards you double portions today with the final episode of our volume on historiography! We dive deep into a brief biography of Augustine (chapter 1 of Gerald Bray's Augustine on the Christian Life) as well as a paper Adam wrote 4 years...

Vol. 2 Ep. 7 History Writing
January 27, 2017

What is history, and what is history writing? Is there a difference? What is the best way of writing history? The entire volume has culminated to this point, folks. We've looked at the individual tasks that make up the historian's work. Now comes the...

Vol. 2 Ep. 6 Social Sciences and History
January 13, 2017

What is the role of the social sciences as they relate to history? Aren't they just one and the same? We dig into this subject as deep as we can this week. It builds on the last several episodes - the use of primary, secondary, and even tertiary...

Vol. 2 Ep. 5 Tertiary Sources
December 30, 2016

The fifth episode of this volume focuses on dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, and bibliographies. What are they, and what are their uses for research? Join us next time for a discussion of the Social Sciences and Historiography. 

Vol. 2 Ep. 4 Primary and Secondary Sources
December 16, 2016

What are primary sources and secondary sources? How do they fit into academic work, especially the work of the historian? And how do they fit with the Three Canons we discussed last time? We discuss these questions and more in the fourth episode of...

Vol. 2 Ep. 3 The Three Canons
December 02, 2016

Jonathan breaks down the three canons, or tools, of the historian. We also get into materialism and anti-materialism, and more! P.S., we have a new companion podcast releasing on Monday, December 5th: "Saints Gone Before"! However you get our current...

Vol. 2 Ep. 2 Christian Historiography
November 18, 2016

This time around, we discuss the two schools for interpreting Biblical Historiography, as well as a comment about American Christian Historiography. This is the last one of our episodes discussing the worldview part of what supports the work of a...

Vol. 2 Ep. 1 Historiography Schools of Thought
November 05, 2016

Welcome back to An Oral History of the Church! This episode kicks off our new 'volume' or season, in which we focus on the subject, "What is history?"  This season is a study of how history is written. How do historians decide to include this,...

Vol. 1 Ep. 17 Jonathan McCormick
September 23, 2016

Somebody stick a fork in this oral history because it is DONE. Episode 17 features an interview with co-host Jonathan McCormick, an alumnus of GGBTS and current Regional Librarian of the San Francisco Campus of Gateway Seminary. Jonathan makes a case...

Vol. 1 Ep. 16 Adam Christman
September 16, 2016

The GGBTS Campus Relocation Project finale begins! First up, we continue our methodology to interview co-host Adam Christman for his perspective on the relocation. We laughed, we cried, we lost 5 pounds. Come back next time for the second half of the...