The Overtones Podcast explores and celebrates lesser heard voices within Christianity, both in the past as well as today. It is hosted by LaRae Cherukara, Joe Rhee, and Christy Wang of the Overtones Project. We talk to Christian academics, professionals, missionaries, and church workers, and each of them has an extraordinary story to tell about themselves, about their work, and about God. In Season 1, we will engage topics such as war and humanitarian aid, cults and evangelism in South Korea, Puritans and same-sex desires, and finally, what it feels like to be a single female church worker in the UK. So listen with us, and let us discover together the beauty and wonder of the lives of other Christians.
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The Overtones Podcast explores and celebrates lesser heard voices within Christianity, both in the past as well as today. It is hosted by LaRae Cherukara, Joe Rhee, and Christy Wang of the Overtones Project. We talk to Christian academics, professionals, missionaries, and church workers, and each of them has an extraordinary story to tell about themselves, about their work, and about God. In Season 1, we will engage topics such as war and humanitarian aid, cults and evangelism in South Korea, Puritans and same-sex desires, and finally, what it feels like to be a single female church worker in the UK. So listen with us, and let us discover together the beauty and wonder of the lives of other Christians.
S2E14. Our Dear Doctor Johnson: How Samuel Johnson Kept the Faith in a Secular Age
The Overtones Podcast
30 minutes 32 seconds
8 months ago
S2E14. Our Dear Doctor Johnson: How Samuel Johnson Kept the Faith in a Secular Age
Samuel Johnson was a critic, poet, and essayist, and the author of one of the most influential English dictionaries in history. As one of the finest minds eighteenth-century England, Johnson was in the centre of debates around the place of Christianity in the moral life of the nation, and the role of faith in a post-Enlightenment world.
Dr Kirsten Herlin of the University of Austin joins Christy, Joe, and LaRae, to discuss Samuel Johnson's life and faith, as well as his engagement with an increasingly secular intellectual culture. How did Johnson deal with his personal struggles of doubt and weakness? Did the humanism of the English Enlightenment necessarily mean a decline in spirituality? How does Johnson's moral influence come through in Jane Austen and other English writers?
Producers: Matthew and LaRae Cherukara
Music by Leon Riskin
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The Overtones Podcast
The Overtones Podcast explores and celebrates lesser heard voices within Christianity, both in the past as well as today. It is hosted by LaRae Cherukara, Joe Rhee, and Christy Wang of the Overtones Project. We talk to Christian academics, professionals, missionaries, and church workers, and each of them has an extraordinary story to tell about themselves, about their work, and about God. In Season 1, we will engage topics such as war and humanitarian aid, cults and evangelism in South Korea, Puritans and same-sex desires, and finally, what it feels like to be a single female church worker in the UK. So listen with us, and let us discover together the beauty and wonder of the lives of other Christians.
