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  • 10: According to the Kübler-Ross model, starting your own church is just one of the five stages of divorce.

    Featured text: "The Astonished Heart: Reclaiming the Good News from the Lost-and-Found of Church History" — Robert Capon

    Pastors Riley and Gillespie jump back into Robert Capon's "The Astonished Heart," to discuss Henry VIII, Catholic elasticity, and mini Christendoms.

    Our Text: The Astonished Heart: Reclaiming the Good News from the Lost-and-Found of Church History by Robert Farrar Capon, pp. 68-71

    Show Notes:

    Mark Manson - The Subtle Art

    Luther - On the Councils and the Church

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    1 hr 10 min
  • 9: I Guess Reformation Theology and Dubstep Never Dies

    Featured text: "The Astonished Heart: Reclaiming the Good News from the Lost-and-Found of Church History" — Robert Capon

    Pastors Riley and Gillespie jump back into Robert Capon's "The Astonished Heart," to discuss Martin Luther, the Reformation, and what happens when justification by faith alone busts loose in Christendom.

    Our Text: The Astonished Heart: Reclaiming the Good News from the Lost-and-Found of Church History by Robert Farrar Capon, pp. 66-68

    Show Notes:

    Into the Great Wide Open - Tom Petty

    Our Lady of Guadalupe

    Corn Palace

    Jesus is Just Alright - Doobie Brothers

    Dogma - Kevin Smith

    Jan Hus

    Chronological Snobbery (C.S. Lewis)

    Conciliar Movement

    Papal infallibility

    Batman Lego Movie

    Nick Thune: Good Guy - Youth Pastor

    Siegfried and Roy

    Blackfish

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    Questions? Comments? Show Ideas? Send them to us at [email protected].

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    And as always, don't forget Gillespie's coffee for your caffeinated needs and especially the 1517 Reformation Roast.

    We're proud to be part of 1517 Podcasts, a network of shows dedicated to delivering Christ-centered content through weekly, monthly, and seasonal audio platforms. Our podcasts cover a multitude of content, from Christian doctrine, apologetics, cultural engagement, and powerful preaching. Find out more at 1517.

    1 hr 17 min
  • 8: Who are you? I'm Batma... I'm Constantine.

    Featured text: "The Astonished Heart: Reclaiming the Good News from the Lost-and-Found of Church History" — Robert Capon

    Pastors Riley and Gillespie jump into Robert Capon's "The Astonished Heart," to discuss Constantine, Christendom and it's consequences.

    Our Text: The Astonished Heart: Reclaiming the Good News from the Lost-and-Found of Church History by Robert Farrar Capon

    Show Notes:

    Robert Farrar Capon

    Remembering Robert Farrar Capon

    Robert Farrar Capon Project @ Mockingbird

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    We're proud to be part of 1517 Podcasts, a network of shows dedicated to delivering Christ-centered content through weekly, monthly, and seasonal audio platforms. Our podcasts cover a multitude of content, from Christian doctrine, apologetics, cultural engagement, and powerful preaching. Find out more at 1517.

    1 hr 20 min
  • 7: Part 2 - Rounding up all the Christendom in the world and launching it into space so it cannot ever hurt us again

    Featured text: "Preparation for a Christian Life" — Søren Kierkegaard

    Pastors Riley and Gillespie continue to discuss Soren Kierkegaard's "Preparation for Christianity," where the Dane criticizes the church for making sin to be of little consequence and therefore making the Savior and His forgiveness of little importance.

    Our Text: Preparation for a Christian Life [on Matthew 11:28] (https://www.ccel.org/ccel/kierkegaard/selections/files/preparation.htm), Conclusion continued

    Show Notes:

    Church coffee recipe

    Lutheran Schools article

    Moralistic Therapeutic Deism

    Repentance over and over (See Psalm 78)

    Propaedeutic (definition)

    It's All About Me (worship music parody)

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    Please subscribe, rate, and review the show in Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/banned-books-podcast/id1370993639?mt=2.

    And as always, don't forget Gillespie's coffee for your caffeinated needs and especially the 1517 Reformation Roast.

    We're proud to be part of 1517 Podcasts, a network of shows dedicated to delivering Christ-centered content through weekly, monthly, and seasonal audio platforms. Our podcasts cover a multitude of content, from Christian doctrine, apologetics, cultural engagement, and powerful preaching. Find out more at 1517.

    1 hr 14 min
  • 7: Rounding up all the Christendom in the world and launching it into space so it cannot ever hurt us again, part 2
    Pastors Riley and Gillespie continue to discuss Soren Kierkegaard’s “Preparation for Christianity,” where the Dane criticizes the church for making sin to be of little consequence and therefore making the Savior and His forgiveness of little importance.
    You can read the full show notes under each episode here: http://directory.libsyn.com/shows/view/id/bannedbooks
    1 hr 14 min
  • 6: Part 1 - Rounding up all the Christendom in the world and launching it into space so it cannot ever hurt us again.

    Featured text: "Preparation for a Christian Life" — Søren Kierkegaard

    Pastors Riley and Gillespie discuss Soren Kierkegaard's "Preparation for Christianity," where the Dane criticizes the church for offering people a Christ strictly in his ascended and victorious state and neglecting Jesus in his humiliation and in his human and highly controversial form.

    Our Text: Preparation for a Christian Life [on Matthew 11:28] (https://www.ccel.org/ccel/kierkegaard/selections/files/preparation.htm), Conclusion: "The Moral"

    Show Notes:

    Soren Kierkegaard

    Taylor Swift breaks up again

    Existentialism

    KimKierkegaardashian (@KimKierkegaard)

    Who wrote with standing desks?

    Tesla Science Center

    Hegel's Dialectics

    Flannery O'Connor stories

    To Kill a Mockingbird

    Superman Jesus on the Cross

    Original Sin (definition)

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    Questions? Comments? Show Ideas? Send them to us at [email protected].

    Please subscribe, rate, and review the show in Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/banned-books-podcast/id1370993639?mt=2.

    And as always, don't forget Gillespie's coffee for your caffeinated needs and especially the 1517 Reformation Roast.

    We're proud to be part of 1517 Podcasts, a network of shows dedicated to delivering Christ-centered content through weekly, monthly, and seasonal audio platforms. Our podcasts cover a multitude of content, from Christian doctrine, apologetics, cultural engagement, and powerful preaching. Find out more at 1517.

    1 hr 21 min
  • 5: Part 2: Two Natures and Maximum Effort

    Featured text: "On the Incarnation" — Athanasius

    Riley and Gillespie continue to talk about Athanasius' , "On The Incarnation", but this week they get into the historical, bodily resurrection of Jesus, and why Jesus' resurrection upends our search for self-discovery and meaning.

    Athanasius' On the Incarnation (https://www.ccel.org/ccel/athanasius/incarnation), para. 29

    Show Notes:

    Dr. Eric Berne - Transactional Games

    Thích Quảng Đức (https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-burning-monk-1963/)

    The Truth behind Christian Rock (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TsL0DO-c1E)

    Treasure of Sierra Madres - Humphrey Bogart

    African Queen

    Justified

    Luther

    Peaky Blinders

    Firefly

    Bosch

    Elmore Leonard

    High Noon

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    Questions? Comments? Show Ideas? Send them to us at [email protected].

    Please subscribe, rate, and review the show in Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/banned-books-podcast/id1370993639?mt=2.

    And as always, don't forget Gillespie's coffee for your caffeinated needs and especially the 1517 Reformation Roast.

    We're proud to be part of 1517 Podcasts, a network of shows dedicated to delivering Christ-centered content through weekly, monthly, and seasonal audio platforms. Our podcasts cover a multitude of content, from Christian doctrine, apologetics, cultural engagement, and powerful preaching. Find out more at 1517.

    1 hr 19 min
  • 4: Part 1: Two Natures and Maximum Effort

    Featured text: "On the Incarnation" — Athanasius

    Riley and Gillespie talk about Athanasius' apology in his writing, "On The Incarnation", for the historical, bodily death of Jesus, and why Jesus' death and resurrection is the end of religion.

    Athanasius' On the Incarnation (https://www.ccel.org/ccel/athanasius/incarnation), para. 24.

    Show Notes:

    Thor - Ragnarok

    More Than a Carpenter by Josh D. McDowell

    Apologetics - Thinking Fellows

    Gilgamesh Epic

    Alexamenos graffito (Roman catacomb painting)

    The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky

    Rowan Atkinson - The Wedding at Cana

    Pogo (comic strip)

    History of Crucifixion

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    Questions? Comments? Show Ideas? Send them to us at [email protected].

    Please subscribe, rate, and review the show in Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/banned-books-podcast/id1370993639?mt=2.

    And as always, don't forget Gillespie's coffee for your caffeinated needs and especially the 1517 Reformation Roast.

    We're proud to be part of 1517 Podcasts, a network of shows dedicated to delivering Christ-centered content through weekly, monthly, and seasonal audio platforms. Our podcasts cover a multitude of content, from Christian doctrine, apologetics, cultural engagement, and powerful preaching. Find out more at 1517.

    1 hr 11 min
  • 3: Part 3: "Piss Off, Athanasian Ghost!"

    Featured text: "On the Incarnation" — C.S. Lewis

    Theological Inception, episode 3 - Riley and Gillespie continue to talk about C.S. Lewis talking about Athanasius talking about Jesus, and offer lots of explanations for what they said in episode 2.

    Introduction to Athanasius' On the Incarnation (http://silouanthompson.net/library/early-church/on-the-incarnation/introduction/)

    Show Notes:

    Inception (2010)

    Highlander - "There can be only one…"

    C.S. Lewis - The Last Battle

    "I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!"

    The TARDIS

    Hermann Sasse

    Christianity and Islam - Thinking Fellows

    Who Wrote the Book of Mormon?

    "Simul iustus et peccator"—"Simultaneously righteous and sinner" by Donavon Riley (1517 Blog)

    High Noon (1952)

    Jiru Dreams of Sushi (2011)

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    Questions? Comments? Show Ideas? Send them to us at [email protected].

    Please subscribe, rate, and review the show in Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/banned-books-podcast/id1370993639?mt=2.

    And as always, don't forget Gillespie's coffee for your caffeinated needs and especially the 1517 Reformation Roast.

    We're proud to be part of 1517 Podcasts, a network of shows dedicated to delivering Christ-centered content through weekly, monthly, and seasonal audio platforms. Our podcasts cover a multitude of content, from Christian doctrine, apologetics, cultural engagement, and powerful preaching. Find out more at 1517.

    1 hr 23 min
  • 2: Part 2: "Piss Off, Athanasian Ghost!"

    Featured text: "On the Incarnation" — C.S. Lewis

    Theological Inception, episode 2 - Riley and Gillespie continue to talk about C.S. Lewis talking about Athanasius talking about Jesus, but there's no tub of water to fall back into at the end of this podcast.

    Introduction to Athanasius' On the Incarnation (http://silouanthompson.net/library/early-church/on-the-incarnation/introduction/)

    Show Notes:

    CS Lewis - Thinking Fellows Podcast

    Preaching and the Sacrament - Herman Sasse (We Confess)

    Ravel - Bolero

    Bunyan- Pilgrim's Progress

    Super Why

    Imperial March (Major Key)

    Dante - Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso

    40 Minutes In the Old Testament - Leviticus and the Sacrificial System (Episode 108ff)

    A Shropshire Lad. 1896., XL. Into my heart on air that kills

    INTO my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?

    That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.

    (A. E. Housman, 1859–1936)

    First Things - How Should We Celebrate Reformation Sunday?

    We're Already Home: A Response to Joshua Genig — LOGIA

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    Questions? Comments? Show Ideas? Send them to us at [email protected].

    Please subscribe, rate, and review the show in Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/banned-books-podcast/id1370993639?mt=2.

    And as always, don't forget Gillespie's coffee for your caffeinated needs and especially the 1517 Reformation Roast.

    We're proud to be part of 1517 Podcasts, a network of shows dedicated to delivering Christ-centered content through weekly, monthly, and seasonal audio platforms. Our podcasts cover a multitude of content, from Christian doctrine, apologetics, cultural engagement, and powerful preaching. Find out more at 1517.

    1 hr 23 min

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