thegreatstory | Loyal Rue pt 1: "Amythia" (interviewed by Barlow and Dowd) @thegreatstory | Uploaded August 2014 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Loyal Rue, professor emeritus of Luther College in Decorah Iowa, wrote his first book, Amythia, in 1989. In 2014, Connie Barlow and Michael Dowd conversed with Loyal about his book and the malady of modernism, amythia. Topics are hotlinked in list below:
00:11 introduction to Amythia (the book)
00:56 religion as a natural phenomenon, a cultural adaptation
03:42 the book, Amythia, triggers a controversy
07:21 Amythia v. the New Atheists; evolve the church?
08:19 a new story needs continuity (religion) + plausibility (science)
09:51 Michael Dowd: how to evolve the Church
11:02 how to evolve the Hebraic covenant (root metaphor)
14:50 Dowd: how to evolve the church (pt. 2)
16:11 cultures need a share story for social coherence
17:15 Rue's book, "Everybody's Story" advocates big history
18:34 Interfaith dialogue is premature w/out shared story
19:35 Why do amythic people still go to church?
This video was recorded in August 2014 at Loyal Rue's cabin in a forest pocket surrounded by cornfields north of Decorah, Iowa. Find other videos posted on youtube that were recorded at the same time, interviewing Professor Rue about his four other books.
Loyal Rue, professor emeritus of Luther College in Decorah Iowa, wrote his first book, Amythia, in 1989. In 2014, Connie Barlow and Michael Dowd conversed with Loyal about his book and the malady of modernism, amythia. Topics are hotlinked in list below:
00:11 introduction to Amythia (the book)
00:56 religion as a natural phenomenon, a cultural adaptation
03:42 the book, Amythia, triggers a controversy
07:21 Amythia v. the New Atheists; evolve the church?
08:19 a new story needs continuity (religion) + plausibility (science)
09:51 Michael Dowd: how to evolve the Church
11:02 how to evolve the Hebraic covenant (root metaphor)
14:50 Dowd: how to evolve the church (pt. 2)
16:11 cultures need a share story for social coherence
17:15 Rue's book, "Everybody's Story" advocates big history
18:34 Interfaith dialogue is premature w/out shared story
19:35 Why do amythic people still go to church?
This video was recorded in August 2014 at Loyal Rue's cabin in a forest pocket surrounded by cornfields north of Decorah, Iowa. Find other videos posted on youtube that were recorded at the same time, interviewing Professor Rue about his four other books.
