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The Nathan Jacobs Podcast — 105 episodes

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Do the Church Fathers Reject Evolution?

2

Are Icons Idolatry?

3

From LSD to Orthodoxy: From Artist to Scholar to Filmmaker | ft. Nathan Jacobs & Chris Firestone

4

The Essential Doctrine the West Lost: On Divine Energies

5

Can the Non-Orthodox Be Saved? A Dialogue | ft. Drs. Nathan Jacobs & Chris Firestone

6

Resurrection Makes NO SENSE without Deification

7

The LIE about Modern Philosophy

8

Was The Virgin Mary Sinless? The Answer May Surprise Protestants

9

The Truth About Why Christians Worship on Sundays

10

Can Dogs Go to Heaven? Theology Explained

11

God’s Omnipotence Explained: Can God Really Do Anything?

12

Is the Universe God's Body?

13

What is Mount Athos like during Holy Week?

14

How Humanity is Reconciled to God: Penal Substitution vs. the Early Church | with Fr. Joseph Lucas

15

A Guide for Christians to Engage Non-Believers

16

The Religiously Unaffiliated Did Not Reject God — They Rejected Western Christianity

17

The Modern Religious Debate Lost Its Audience

18

Do Christians, Jews, and Muslims Worship the Same God?

19

Defining "God" | The Evolution of a Word

20

Did Greek Philosophy Corrupt Christianity? On Greek, Jewish, and Christian Theologies

21

That Trinity Analogy is Heresy | Nicene Trinitarianism Explained

22

Has Science Disproved Free Will? | A Conversation With James Joiner

23

Free Will & Moral Responsibility | A Conversation with Dr. James Joiner

24

How the Devil Tried to Steal Christmas | The True Story of the Nativity

25

The Cosmic Longing of Christmas | All Creation Groans

26

The Christian East & West Divide

27

Entertaining Angels | Tales of Christian Hospitality

28

The Realism of Symbology | A Conversation with Jonathan Pageau

29

The Lived Philosophy of Early Christianity | The Last Five Ecumenical Councils

30

The True Christian Philosophy | The Metaphysics of the Ecumenical Councils

31

The Question Behind the Seven Ecumenical Councils | Who Do You Say I Am?

32

A Postscript on Slavery & Genocide | From Mosaic Law to the Church Fathers

33

The Problem of Hell

34

When God Commands Death | Can Genocide Be Justified?

35

The Polygamy Question | Immoralities in the Bible

36

Is Slavery Morally Wrong? Immoralities in the Bible? Part 1 of 3

37

Orthodox Foundations

38

Political, Personal, & Pastoral | What to Do With Moral Truth?

39

Nature & Grace | The Great Divide Between East & West | Part 6 of 6

40

The Morality of LGBT (and other hot button issues) | Beyond the Bible

41

The Evolution of Ethics | Realism: from John Locke to Woody Allen | Ethics & Anthropology | Part 4

42

The Secret Hand Behind History: Providence or Chaos? | Part 3

43

The Slow Death of Morality | How Modern Ethics Sold Its Soul | Part 2 of 4

44

The Pagan Blueprint For the Good Life | Plato, Aristotle, & the Stoics

45

Transformed by the Eucharist | Body or Bread? | Part 2 of 2

46

Understanding the Eucharist | Sacramentalism East vs West | Part 1 of 2

47

Therapy & the Eastern Church Fathers | Merits & Demerits of Secular Therapy | with Dr. Adam Dell

48

On David, Giant Slayer | Not Your Mama’s Sunday School Story | With Fr. Stephen De Young

49

Does Jesus Claim to Be God? | A Closer Look at Nicene Trinitarianism

50

Consciousness, Reality, and the Human Condition | What It Means to Be Human

51

A Second Round on Penal Substitution | Misunderstanding the Bible and the Fathers

52

A Reality Check for Crazy Times | Longing for More than Nominal Culture

53

Penal Substitution: East vs West | Perspectives on the Atonement

54

To a Mother on the Loss of Her Children | A Theological Letter on Suffering

55

God & the Fate of Judas, Natural Disasters, and Other Evils | Your Questions on the Problem of Evil

56

Does God Know the Future? | Contrasting East & West

57

The Fall, Demons, Animal Pain, & the 8th Day of Creation | The Eastern Fathers & the Problem of Evil

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The Purpose of Creation | The Eastern Fathers & The Problem of Evil | Part 5 of 6

59

Cliffe & Stuart Knechtle on Orthodoxy | Defining (part of) the East-West Divide

60

Christ’s Descent into Hades | A Theological Letter

61

Providence in the Eastern Church Fathers | Problem of Evil | Part 4 of 5 

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Groundwork for an Eastern Patristic Theodicy | The Problem of Evil | Part 3 of 4

63

The Problem of Evil | On the Complexity of Divine Choice | Part 2 of 3

64

The Problem of Evil | Free Will, Divine Will, & A World Without Sin

65

Sophistication of Early Church Fathers | An Interview With Hank Hanegraaff

66

Can the Rich Be Saved? | Wealth, Asceticism, & Salvation

67

On Apokatastasis & Universal Salvation | Will Christ Rescue All From Hell?

68

Misunderstanding Mystery | The Place of Philosophy in Orthodoxy

69

Hollywood Taxidermy | The Rise of the IP Serial Killer

70

Is God Truly Hidden | The Problem of Divine Hiddenness | Part 3 of 3 

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Is Non-Resistant Unbelief in God Possible? | The Problem of Divine Hiddenness | Part 2 of 3

72

On the Problem of Divine Hiddenness | Is Rational Unbelief in God Possible?

73

The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly of Storytelling | The Taxidermy of Hollywood

74

A Historical & Biblical Defense of Icons | An Interview With Hank Hanegraaff

75

Faith, Works, & Mary, Mother of God | An Interview With Hank Hanegraaff

76

The Virgin Mary: Grinch Slayer | Christian Tradition & the Devil

77

Man's Place in the Cosmos | The Longing of Creation

78

Fated or Free | The Mechanics of Choice

79

On Free Will | A Defense of Libertarian Freedom

80

My Wild Ride to Orthodoxy | LSD, Art, Hell, and Heresy

81

Darwin, Adoption, & Double Effect | Episode 25

82

Ghosts, Aliens, and Hades | Encounters With the Spiritual Realm

83

Archetypes, Inspiration, & Christianity | A Reply to Jordan Peterson & Richard Dawkins

84

Paranormal Case Files | Behind the Scenes of The Conjuring | Fr. Maximos McIntyre

85

Diagnosing Demons | Exorcising the Mental Health Industry | Dr. Jeffrey M. Jones

86

The Sin of Self-Actualization | Werewolves, Mummies, & Doppelgangers

87

On Belief in Fairies

88

Why Would God Make the Damned?

89

Elon, Help! Let's Make Logic Great Again

90

The Ideology of Hell | Nominalism & the Liberation of the Individual

91

Longing, Nostalgia, & Spiritual Simplicity

92

The Healing Power of Beauty | A Heterodox Guide to Trauma | Dr. Timothy Patitsas

93

Ontology & Religious Art

94

The AI Episode | Art, Consciousness, & the New Ouija

95

The Great Toilet Paper Debate | A Metaphysician Weighs In

96

Aliens, Giants, & Other Lore | Fr. Stephen De Young

97

The Case for Realism | Confessions of a Former Nominalist

98

The Rise & Fall of the Religiously Unaffiliated | Part 2 of 2

99

The Anatomy of the Religiously Unaffiliated | Part 1 of 2

100

Dr. Jacobs Answers Audience Questions

101

The Myth of Enlightenment

102

Liberalism & The Demise of the West

103

Language & Cultural Appropriation

104

On God’s Essence, Energies, & Simplicity | David Bradshaw

105

The Most Important Question