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Banned Books
by 1517 Podcasts
Welcome to Banned Books, where we read and converse with the rebel children, the holy mischief-makers of God, who fight against the kind of useless religious, spiritual, and moral methods of life improvement that seeks to smother the glory of God in Jesus Christ. We want to introduce you to those who forgot everything except Jesus Christ and him crucified. We all struggle with fear of being last, lost, least, littlest, and dead, and so we are here to encourage, challenge, provoke, and maybe even offend you by introducing you to theologians who at one time or another were banned by their church, declared dangerous, or simply vilified for daring to confess that Christ alone is the way, truth, and life. Welcome rebel children, holy mischief makers, and fools for Christ. This podcast is for you.
Episodes
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456: Nestingen - The Gospel and Repentance
Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough! In this episode, we continue our conversation about repentance, reading Rev. Dr. James Nestingen's article on the Gospel and Repentance. We discuss Luther's view of the Gospel's relationship to repentance, preaching a doable law, and what awaits those who leave the...
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455: Nestingen - Preaching Repentance Is a Problem
In this episode, we sit with Rev. Dr. James Nestingen's writing on the gospel and repentance. We talk at length not only about law and repentance, but also about the consequences of therapeutic culture for the preaching and reception of calls to repent in the churches. If the law is known by its...
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454: Elert - Church Fellowship in the Local Congregation
Let's Stay Together. In this episode, we sit with Werner Elert's study of Eucharist & Church Fellowship in the First Four Centuries. We discuss ecumenism, fellowship, communion, church polity, and what constitutes "koinonia" in the New Testament and the early church. This and much, much more on...
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453: Athanasius - Against the Wiles of Satan
The Cost of Discipline. In this episode, we sit with St. Athanasius and his writings on the life of St. Antony. How did Christians in the 4th century view spiritual warfare and affliction? What is the relation of discipline to prayer, piety, and resisting temptation? What did 4th century…
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452: Anonymous - Ars Moriendi
Are You More Spiritual Than a Medieval Peasant? In this episode, we sit with The Book of the Craft of Dying to discuss how medieval spiritual warfare was explained in the 1415 text Ars Moriendi. What temptations do Christians experience in the midst of death? How do temptations to desperation,...
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451: Listener Question on the Work of the Holy Spirit
All Apologies. In this episode, we respond to another listener question. What does it mean to "sit with a text" and yet be prepared at all times to give an apology for the hope that is in us? How does the Holy Spirit work in and through believers to testify to the truth about Jesus? Does the…
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450: Table Talk on Suicide
Suicide Solution. In this episode, we sit with Martin Luther and C.S. Lewis to discuss the topic of self-murder ("suicide"). We talk about focusing on higher truth, how individualism leads to harmful consequences, and how Christians and churches may discuss this with others. This episode…
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449: Marquart - Luther and Theosis, part 2
As Alive As You Need Me to Be… Again. In this episode, we continue our wandering through church history and doctrine, conversing with Kurt Marquart as he explains justification, sanctification, and theosis. Inside this is a layer of cultural criticism, and beneath that, a layer of pastoral...
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448: Marquart - Luther and Theosis
As Alive As You Need Me to Be. In this episode, we sit with Rev. Dr. Kurt Marquardt and listen as he teaches us about theosis, deification, justification, Christology, myth and ethics, materialism and rationalism, sacramentality, vocation, relational versus philosophical exegesis, sanctification,...
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447: Forde - The Argument about Christ and Salvation
Ride On… In this episode, we engage a listener question — is Lutheran teaching double predestination within his debate with Erasmus? How are we to understand arguments for the bound will, such as: "Man's will is like a beast standing between two riders. If God rides, it wills and goes where God...
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446: Kolb - Speaking the Gospel Today
Talk of the Town In this episode, we discuss Christian conversation — cultural, institutional, and in our encounters with the living God. Our guide is Prof. Robert Kolb, who wrote about the 'Art of Christian Conversation' in his book, "Speaking the Gospel Today." What is Christian conversation…
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445: Peterson - Buying Passage to Tarshish
Run for the Hills! On this episode, we sit with Eugene Peterson and Jonah, listening to what they have to teach about God's grace, death and resurrection, threshold experiences, believing Jesus is God versus encountering him, and much, much more! What does pastoral ministry look like in Jonah's...
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444: Tertullian - A Proper Seeking After Divine Knowledge is Always Within the Rule of Faith
Featured text: "Prescription against Heretics" — Tertullian The Times They Are A-Changin'. In this episode, we sit with Tertullian's writing on "Prescription against Heretics." What is "the rule of faith"? What constitutes a proper seeking after divine knowledge? What does Tertullian mean by...
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443: O'Connor - The blind, prophetical, unsentimental eye of acceptance, which is to say, of faith
Featured text: "Introduction to A Memoir of Mary Ann" — Flannery O'Connor Pretty Girls Make Graves. In this episode, we sit with Flannery O'Connor's introduction to A Memoir of Mary Ann, a memoir of a little girl who lived for 12 years at the Our Lady of Perpetual Help Cancer Home in Atlanta,...
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442: Giertz - A Shepherd's Letter
Featured text: "A Shepherd's Letter" — Bo Giertz We're in This Together. In this episode, we sit with Bo Giertz and read his open letter to the churches -- A Shepherd's Letter. As translator, Bror Erickson says of the opening section (we read on the show), Crises and Sources of Strength: crises…
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441: Trueman - The Value and Role of Creeds and Confessions
Featured text: "The Value and Role of Creeds and Confessions" — Carl Trueman With Arms Wide Open! In this episode, on the eve of Trinity Sunday, we sit with Carl Trueman's essay, 'The Value and Role of Creeds and Confession.' Is there any usefulness of Creeds and Confessions at present? Are they...
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440: Heiser - Reading Your Bible Again... for the first time
Featured text: "The Unseen Realm: Recovering the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible" — Michael Heiser The Mosaic Word. In this episode, we sit with Michael Heiser's book, The Unseen Realm, on reading the Bible. What are the rules of engagement when one reads Scripture? What filters do we apply…
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439: Rose - Explanation of UFO Phenomena
Featured text: "Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future" — Seraphim Rose UFOs are Rebel Angels. In this episode, we read Father Seraphim Rose's classic text, Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future, about the true nature of UFOs and the nefarious origins of modern narratives about...
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438: Debrief - Answering Listener Questions
Money, Porn, and Godly Relationships. In this episode, we answer emails from listeners that ask us to discuss the godly use of money and pornography addiction. How should Christians view the usage of money and possessions? What is the godly response to pornography addiction for both the husband…
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437: John of Damascus - Apologia Against Those Who Decry Holy Images
Featured text: "Apologia Against Those Who Decry Holy Images" — John of Damascus Every Picture Tells a Story. In this episode, we sit with John of Damascus to listen to him teach us about the veneration of icons — what that means, why it's a subject of dispute, how scripture distinguishes between...
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436: Schuldheisz - Luther and the Lion
Featured text: "Luther and the Lion" — Sam Schuldheisz The Lutherans, the Lion, and the gifts of Narnia. In this episode, we talk with Pastor Sam Schuldheisz about his forthcoming book, Luther and the Lion: A Narnian Catechism. We discuss how Lewis (and other Inklings) can help us catechize...
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435: Andersen - Ritual as the Whole Way of Life
Featured text: "In Defense of Christian Ritual" — David Andersen The Power of Ritual! In this episode, we learn from David Andersen about Christian ritual. What's the purpose and goal of ritual? How does Christian ritual differ from other religious rituals? Where do we find ritual and ceremony...
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434: Guite - The Music of Creation
Featured text: "The Music of Creation" — Malcolm Guite Where do the Children Play? In this episode, we read an Easter message from the Patriarchs and Heads of the Churches in Jerusalem. Then we read Malcom Guite's Lenten meditation on creation, the embodiment of heavenly music, and why J.R.R....
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433: Von Schenk - The Crucifixion
Featured text: "The Presence" — Berthold von Schenk What's Love Got to do With It? In this episode, we read Berthold von Schenk's The Presence, discussing sacrifice, sacrament, human will, anthropology, the cross, Lent, Easter, Love, and the consequences of the crucifixion for worship, faith, and...
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432: Ælfric - Homily for Midlent Sunday
Featured text: "The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church" — Ælfric Went to a Garden Party. In this episode, we read a homily by St. Aelfric of York for Midlent Sunday. Aelfric sermonizes about the earthly and heavenly meaning of Jesus' feeding of the five thousand — its symbolism, historical…
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431: Kleinig - The Mystery of Christ and Cosmic Restoration
Featured text: "The Mystery of Christ and Cosmic Restoration" — John Kleinig Cosmic Debris. In this episode, we read Dr. John Kleinig on Christ and cosmic restoration. We then discuss how and why Christians confuse mysteries with secrets, what happened to the mystagogues, and why the mystery of…
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430: Tolkien - The Journey Through the Desert: The Lenten Quest
Featured text: "Tolkien's Liturgical Imagination" — J.R.R. Tolkien Lent in Middle-earth. In this episode, we discuss the Lenten subtext, language, and images in J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Return of the King." What can Christians learn from fiction authors about the faith, devotional reading,...
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429: Lewis - "'Nature gives most of her evidence in answer to the questions we ask her"
Featured text: "The Discarded Image" — C.S. Lewis A Church as Big as the Cosmos! In this episode, we enter into Lent with a reading from C.S. Lewis' The Discarded Image. We discuss the medieval understanding of life, the universe, and everything— how it can help the churches today deepen their...
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428: Postman - A great narrative... has sufficient credibility, complexity, and symbolic power to enable one to organize one's life around it
Featured text: "The End of Education" — Neil Postman We Don't Need No Education. In this episode, we read The End of Education by Neal Postman, discussing the mechanisms of public education, religious catechesis, the influence of the Enlightenment and psychoanalysis on contemporary learning, and...
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427: Wulfstan - Sermon of the Wolf to the English
Featured text: "Sermon of the Wolf to the English" — Wulfstan Hungry Like The Wolf. In this episode, we read a sermon from 11th-century bishop Wulfstan. The main themes in the Sermon of the Wolf to the English (also often referred to by its Latin title, Sermo Lupi ad Anglos) are corruption and…
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426: Thielicke - The Alluring Miracle of Display
Featured text: "Between God and Satan: The Temptation of Jesus and the Temptability of Man" — Helmut Thielicke Fight the Power! In this episode, we learn from pastor and theologian Helmut Thielecke about the gods we worship, the God that encounters us, and what technology actually does to us.…
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425: Lewis - Myth Became Fact
Featured text: "God in the Dock" — C.S. Lewis The Hangman's Nous. In this episode, we read an excerpt from The Maniac, by G.K. Chesterton, followed by Myth Became Fact, from C.S. Lewis' book of essays, "God in the Dock." The primary question we discuss, then, is whether men and women can live a...
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424: Kleinig - The Role of the Holy Spirit in the Divine Service
Featured text: "The Role of the Holy Spirit in the Divine Service" — John Kleinig In this episode, we learn about the Holy Spirit and the Divine Service from Dr. John Kleinig. In particular, we discuss how Christ gives the Spirit to the church through his word, how Christ institutes the divine...
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423: Graff - Rationalism's war on everything "magical."
Featured text: "History of the Dissolution of the Old Liturgical Forms in the Evangelical Church of Germany" — Paul Graff Who Made Who. In this episode, Gillespie takes the wheel and steers us into tradition, liturgy, worship styles, and the various "-isms" that have sprung up within the churches...
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422: Post-Christmas and Post-New Year Debrief
What's the Frequency, Kenneth? In this episode, we gather for a post-Christmas, post-New Year pastoral debrief. We talk about symbols and meaning, Christmas and holidays, signs and seasons, and how modern churches quietly cleared the path for culture to push Christ out of Christmas without much...
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421: Chesterton - Mankind would have a much worse time if there were no such thing as Christmas or Christmas dinners
Featured text: "On Christmas" — G.K. Chesterton Going Cold Turkey at Christmas? In this episode, we read G.K. Chesterton's essay, On Christmas, wherein he discusses celebrating Christmas too early, vivisection, vegetarians versus turkeys, and what to do about the poor at Christmas. It's another...
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420: C.S. Lewis - Christmas is unfortunately everyone's business
Featured text: "What Christmas Means to Me" — C.S. Lewis I'm Wasted, and I Can't Find My Way Home. In this episode, we again invite C.S. Lewis to teach us about Christmas. We also discuss the early church fathers, worship, symbolism, mystery, Freud and Jung's influence on modern Christians,...
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419: C.S. Lewis - All that Christianity adds to Paganism is the cure
Featured text: "A Christmas Sermon for Pagans" — C.S. Lewis In this episode, we read C.S. Lewis' "A Christmas Sermon for Pagans." SHOW NOTES: A Christmas Sermon for Pagans...
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418: Luther - God will not deal with us except through his external Word and sacrament
Featured text: "The Smalcald Articles" — Martin Luther Son of a Preacher Man. In this episode, we conclude our study of Martin Luther's Smalcald Articles, discussing the office of the keys and confession. We go through and sum up the previous episodes — the gospel, the mass, repentance, sin, and...
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417: Luther - A deep, evil corruption of nature that reason does not comprehend
Featured text: "The Smalcald Articles" — Martin Luther How Deep Is Your Love! In this episode, we continue our reading of the Smalcald Articles, focusing our attention on sin and the law. What is sin? What does it do to us? What are its effects? And, in following, what is the relationship of the...
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416: Luther - To this office of the law, however, the New Testament immediately adds the consoling promise of grace through the gospel
Featured text: "The Smalcald Articles" — Martin Luther Don't Look Back in Anger. In this episode, we continue reading Martin Luther's Smalcald Articles, focusing on contrition, repentance, and freedom. Why does the law need to terrify and leave us hopeless? How does attention to the self lead us...
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415: Luther - The Mass is a dangerous thing, fabricated and invented without God's Word and will
Featured text: "The Smalcald Articles" — Martin Luther Mass Effect. In this episode, we continue our reading of The Smalcald Articles, focusing on Luther's critique of the Roman Mass and all its consequences for the churches and Christian life. We discuss mimetic desire, sacrificial religion, the...
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414: Luther - God is extravagantly rich in His grace
Featured text: "The Smalcald Articles" — Martin Luther An Arm-Twisting Confession. In this episode, we read Martin Luther's Smalcald Articles on the gospel, baptism, and the Lord's Supper. Why did he have to have "his arm twisted" to write them? What is he trying to teach the churches about the...
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413: Debrief on the Bondage of the Will
Featured text: "The Captivation of the Will: Luther Vs. Erasmus on Freedom and Bondage" — Gerhard Forde The Never-Ending Story of our Bound Will & Election. In this episode, we write an epilogue —so to speak— to our series on the Bondage of the Will and wrap up our thoughts about the Here We…
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412: Forde - The gospel, and only the gospel, spells the end of the hidden God
Featured text: "The Captivation of the Will: Luther Vs. Erasmus on Freedom and Bondage" — Gerhard Forde For What It's Worth. In this episode, we conclude our reading of Gerhard Forde's "Captivation of the Will." We discuss the conclusion of Luther's treatise on the bound will, arriving at Christ...
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411: Forde - Are we puppets, being jerked around against our wills by a malevolent puppeteer?
Featured text: "The Captivation of the Will: Luther Vs. Erasmus on Freedom and Bondage" — Gerhard Forde Master of Puppets. In this episode, we continue our exploration of the Bondage of the Will, with Gerhard Forde's book, The Captivation of the Will. We discuss the human will — what it is, what…
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410: Forde - Better not to let the "common herd" in on such lofty and dangerous academic secrets
Featured text: "The Captivation of the Will: Luther Vs. Erasmus on Freedom and Bondage" — Gerhard Forde Have You Herd? In this episode, we continue our reading of The Captivation of Will, discussing the problem of God, the death-ride of morality, scandalous election, the dilemma of sin and…
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409: Forde - Take away assertions and you take away Christianity
Featured text: "The Captivation of the Will: Luther Vs. Erasmus on Freedom and Bondage" — Gerhard Forde Do You Understand the Words That Are Coming Out of My Mouth? In this episode, we read Gerhard Forde's monograph on Luther's treatise on The Bondage of the Will. We discuss scriptural exegesis,...
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408: Nestigen - Luther and Erasmus on the Bondage of the Will
Featured text: "The Captivation of the Will: Luther Vs. Erasmus on Freedom and Bondage" — James Nestigen Dazed & Confused. In this episode, we continue our series on The Bondage of the Will (1525), by Martin Luther. We read Dr. James Nestingen's historical introduction to the treatise and delve...
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407: Paulson - The free will is demonstrably not Jesus Christ
Featured text: "The Captivation of the Will: Luther Vs. Erasmus on Freedom and Bondage" — Steven Paulson In this episode, we begin our series commemorating the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther's treatise, de Servo Arbitrio — The Bondage of the Will. We begin by reading Dr. Steven Paulson's...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to Banned Books, where we read and converse with the rebel children, the holy mischief-makers of God, who fight against the kind of useless religious, spiritual, and moral methods of life improvement that seeks to smother the glory of God in Jesus Christ. We want to introduce you to those who forgot everything except Jesus Christ and him crucified. We all struggle with fear of being last, lost, least, littlest, and dead, and so we are here to encourage, challenge, provoke, and maybe even offend you by introducing you to theologians who at one time or another were banned by their church, declared dangerous, or simply vilified for daring to confess that Christ alone is the way, truth, and life. Welcome rebel children, holy mischief makers, and fools for Christ. This podcast is for you.
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