Pseudepodcast – pseudepigraphus

Pseudepodcast is a biweekly broadcast of Lutheran theology, with Trent de Marest and Christopher Antonetti presiding somewhat honorably over the thing. They talk about the theological topics that interest them, with a little help from their friends. Hopefully it will interest you, too. The show is billed as "amateur theology", which raises the question: what does it mean to be an "amateur theologian"? The word "amateur" comes to us from the Latin word 'amator', meaning “lover”, which itself derives from 'amo, amare', "to love." The word amateur is simply a French derivation, used as a loanword in English. In the most basic sense, to be an amateur is to be a lover of a thing for its own sake. This is what we mean when we bill our show as “amateur theology,” although we will be quick to admit that it is also true that we are not experts or professional theologians. But let’s say that this changes, and in the future we do become some shade of expert, or at least “professional” in the literal sense of the term. If this does happen, we hope that it will augment our status as amateur theologians, as lovers of theology for its own sake, not replace it.