Author

About the Author
Dr. Johanna Hartelius is Associate Professor of Rhetoric in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of The Rhetoric of Expertise (Lexington, 2011) and the forthcoming book The Gifting Logos: Expertise in the Digital Commons (University of California Press, 2020). When she's not explaining to Crackers and Grape Juice that rhetoric means something other than ornamentation and lies, she teaches graduate and undergraduate classes and tries to raise two little humans. Johanna is the host of You're Not Accepted.

Episode 22 – Kerygma

In this episode, we consider what the event and content of preaching means. Are we talking about a narrative of events, exegesis of scripture, or the God? All of it? Also, what about the listener, do they play a role? This and more on (Her)Men*You*Tics.

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Episode 21 – Kenosis

In this episode we consider how God poured himself into human form in the incarnation, and/or how Jesus emptied himself of divinity (like omniscience and omnipotence). But mostly we talk about what human qualities Jesus experienced, the good and the…

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Episode 20 – John

The episode where Johanna is nice to Teer, Jason tells us how to pray, and we talk about John while glossing over John 3:16.

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Bonus Episode – The Word Made Verb

Johanna and Jason talked with Taylor Mertins (another member of the Crackers & Grape Juice team) for a crossover episode to talk about scripture and the season of Lent.

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Episode 19- Justification

Do people change? Or does God declare us to be that which we are manifestly not? Imputation vs. impartation? How do we find a gracious God?

We talk about justification in our latest episode of (Her)Men*You*tics, the doctrine at the heart of the…

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Episode 18 – Imitation

What does it mean to be created in the image of God? Are we imitations of the Godhead? Of Christ?

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Episode 17 – Infallible

Is scripture infallible? What about Jesus? What does our fallibility compared to Christ mean for things like grace and Christian perfection?

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Episode 16 – Hell

If Belinda Carlisle is right, and Heaven is place on earth, where is Hell? What is Hell?

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Episode 15 – Heaven

Is Belinda Carlisle correct? Is Heaven a place on earth? Well according to St. Paul, Belinda might not be wrong.

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Episode 14 – Gospel

In this episode Dr. Johanna, Teer, and Jason discuss the word “gospel.” Should we use an uppercase G or a lowercase g when talking about the G/gospel? What is the G/gospel proclaiming?

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