Christ Over All

ABOUT THE EPISODE

This is the story of how the heresy of Arianism almost become the official doctrine of the early church, and the story of a few brave men who stood in the way.

Resources to Click

• “From Nicaea to the “Nicene Creed”: Sixty Years of Confusion and Controversy” – Bryan Litfin
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• Rufinus of Aquileia: Historia Ecclesiastical, Book 10, chs. 1-6 (Excerpt on the First Council of Nicaea)
• Letter of Eusebius of Nicomedia and Theognis of Nicaea to a Council – Fourth Century Christianity
• The Death of Arius (Post Nicene Fathers Excerpt) – Philip Schaff
• The Dialogue Against the Luciferians – Jerome; Philip Schaff
• The Nicene Creed – Book of Common Prayer
• Theme of the Month: The Nicene Creed: 1700 Years of Homoousios
• Give to Support the Work

Books to Read

• The Story of the Trinity: Controversy, Crisis, and the Creation of the Nicene Creed – Bryan Litfin
• The Church History of Rufinus of Aquileia: books 10 and 11 – Rufinus of Aquilea trans. Philip R. Amidon
• The Theodosian Code and Novels and the Sirmondian Constitutions – Clyde Pharr

ABOUT THE EPISODE

Listen in as David Schrock and Stephen Wellum interview Donald Fairbairn on his Christ Over All essay: "Creeds and the Gospel: From the Beginnings to the Council of Nicaea (325)"

Timestamps

• 00:23 – Intro
• 03:23 – Misconceptions about Creeds & Confessions
• 06:15 – Responding to The Restorationist Movement
• 09:50 – We Are Influenced by Something as We Read Scripture
• 12:49 – The Authorities of Scripture and Tradition in Systematic Theology
• 16:24 – Dr. Fairbairn’s Interest in Church History & the Patristics
• 18:54 – The History Up to 325A.D.
• 24:09 – The Holy Spirit in the Nicene Creed
• 28:50 – Denials of Arianism
• 31:55 – The Political Background to the Creed
• 38:37 – Eusebius’ Exaggeration of Constantine
• 41:37 – The Article on the Father
• 46:12 – Language of the Son being ‘Of’ or ‘From’ the Father
• 51:43 – The Arian Moral Exemplar View
• 56:24 – Nicene Cosmology
• 59:33 – Final Thoughts
• 1:01:28 - Outro

Resources to Click

• “Creeds and the Gospel: From the Beginnings to the Council of Nicaea” – Donald Fairbairn
• 30 Kyle Claunch, David Schrock, Stephen Wellum • Interview • “God the Father: Namesake of all Fatherhood” – Christ Over All
• Theme of the Month: The Nicene Creed: 1700 Years of Homoousios
• Give to Support the Work

Books to Read

• The Story of Creeds and Confessions: Tracing the Development of the Christian Faith – Donald Fairbairn and Ryan M. Reeves
• Letter to Alexander of Alexandria in The Trinitarian Controversy (Sources of Early Christian Thought) – ed. William G. Rusch
• Defense of the Nicene Definition – Athanasius
• The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine - Eusebius

ABOUT THE EPISODE

Should we abandon man-made confessions of faith and instead have "no creed but Christ"? Enter the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D.

Resources to Click

• “Creeds and the Gospel: From the Beginnings to the Council of Nicaea” – Donald Fairbairn
• Theme of the Month: The Nicene Creed: 1700 Years of Homoousios
• Give to Support the Work

Books to Read

• The Story of Creeds and Confessions: Tracing the Development of the Christian Faith – Donald Fairbairn and Ryan M. Reeves
• Letter to Alexander of Alexandria in The Trinitarian Controversy (Sources of Early Christian Thought) – ed. William G. Rusch
• Defense of the Nicene Definition – Athanasius

ABOUT THE EPISODE

Listen in as David Schrock and Stephen Wellum interview Kyle Claunch on his Christ Over All essay: "God the Father: Namesake of all Fatherhood"

 Timestamps

• 00:26 – Intro
• 03:45 – Dr. Wellum’s Highlights of Travel to the UK and Ireland
• 05:56 – Kyle Claunch’s Forthcoming Book
• 07:48 – Where are the Challenges of Feminist Language for God Coming From?
• 17:41 – Analogical, Univocal, and Equivocal Language
• 20:34 – What Does Amy Peeler Argue about God?
• 26:17 – Is there Ever a Non-Metaphorical Language that is Used for God?
• 31:59 – Does EFS Theology Drive Amy Peeler’s View of the Trinity and Metaphorical Language?
• 35:42 – Proper and Figurative Language
• 42:13 – The Value of Being Precise in Our Language Towards God
• 47:31 – The Essential and Personal Nature of God the Father
• 54:57 – How Do These Things Help Us Begin to Reflect the Fatherhood of God?
• 57:49 – Final Thoughts from Dr. Wellum
• 59:41 – Outro

Resources to Click

• “God the Father: Namesake of All Fatherhood”– Kyle Claunch
• “Theological Language and the Fatherhood of God: An Exegetical and Dogmatic Account” – Kyle Claunch
• “On the Improper Use of Proper Speech: A Response to Ronald W. Pierce and Erin M. Heim, ‘Biblical Images of God as Moter and Spiritual Formation’” – Kyle Claunch
• Theme of the Month: The Paterfamilias: Making Fatherhood Great Again
• Give to Support the Work

Books to Read 

• Post Reformation Reformed Dogmatics – Richard Muller
• Theoretical Practical Divinity, Vol. 2: Faith in the Triune God – Petrus Van Mastricht
• Reformed Dogmatics, Vol. 2: God and Creation – Herman Bavinck
• Summa Theologiae Book 1 – Thomas Aquinas
• “Baptists, Sola Scriptura, and the Place of Christian Tradition,” in Baptists and the Christian Tradition – ed. Matthew Emerson, Christopher Morgan & R. Lucas Stamps
• John Gill’s Commentary of the First Letter of John – John Gill
• She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse – Elizabeth A. Johnson
• Women and the Gender of God – Amy Peeler
• Discovering Biblical Equality: Biblical, Theological, Cultural, and Practical Perspectives – eds. Ronald W. Pierce, Cynthia Long Westfall, et. al
• The Father and the Feminine: Exploring the Grammar of God and Gender – Spencer Miles Boersma
• The Same God Who Works All Things: Inseparable Operations in Trinitarian Theology – Adonis Vidu
• On Classical Trinitarianism: Retrieving the Nicene Doctrine of the Triune God – eds. Matthew Barrett and Todd Billings

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Will the real complementarians please stand up? Why it's time for thick/broad/natural complementarians to embrace the label of "biblical patriarchy" to differentiate themselves from the declining thin/narrow/ideological complementarians.

 Resources to Click

• “After Complementarianism, What? Why Egalitarians Are (Still) Winning the Evangelical Gender Debate” – Doug Ponder
• “Slaying Feminism: Ending the Impossible Quest for Sexual Interchangeability” – Doug Ponder
• “Male and Female He Created Them: The Implications of a Paradigmatic Reading of Genesis 1-3 for the Complementarian-Egalitarian Debate” – Doug Ponder
• “Newsletter #13: The Lost World of American Evangelicalism” – Aaron Renn
• Romeo and Juliet, Act 2, Scene 2
• “A Biblical Vision of the Sexes: Harmonious Asymmetry” – Doug Ponder
• “Mere Complementarianism” – Denny Burk
• “What’s In a Name? The meaning and origin of “Complementarianism”” – Denny Burk
• “Is Complementarianism a Man-Made Doctrine?” – Denny Burk
• “What is Biblical Patriarchy?” – Hard Men Podcast
• “Reformed Resourcement: Recovering Biblical Patriarchy with Zach Garris” – The King’s Hall Podcast
• “The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism” – Aaron Renn
• “Newsletter #30: Complementarianism is a Baby Boomer Theology That Will Die with the Baby Boomers” – Aaron Renn
• “Who Should Read the Scriptures in Worship?” – O. Palmer Robertson
• “SBC Says Women Not Barred From Presidency, Pastor Dwight McKissic Suggests Beth Moore” – Leonardo Blair
• “Andrew Wilson says the Church Needs to Rethink Gender and Complementarianism” – Sam Hailes
• “A Word of Empathy, Warning, and Counsel for “Narrow” Complementarians” – Jonathan Leeman
• “Four Clarifying (I Hope) Thoughts on the Complementarian Conversation” – Kevin DeYoung
• “Empathy, Feminism, and the Church” – Joe Rigney
• “Does Anyone Need to Recover from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood?” – Andy Naselli
• “Complementarians and the Rise of Second-Wave Evangelical Feminism” – Doug Ponder and Bryan Laughlin
• The Danvers Statement
• “Male-Only Ordination is Natural: Why the Church is a Model of Reality” – Steven Wedgeworth
• “What About the Term ‘Patriarchy’? – CBMW Podcast
• “Russell Moore’s ETS Paper: The Best Yet” – Denny Burk
• “Rehabilitating Patriarchy” – Peter J. Leithart
• “After Patriarchy, What? Why Egalitarians Are Winning the Evangelical Gender Debate” – Russell D. Moore
• “Death to the Patriarchy?” – Kevin DeYoung
• “Loss of a Good Word (Again)” – Zephram Foster
• Theme of the Month: The Paterfamilias: Making Fatherhood Great Again
• Give to Support the Work

Books to Read

• Jesus, Justice, and Gender Roles: A Case for Gender Roles in Ministry – Kathy Keller
• Women, Authority and the Bible – ed. Alvera Mickelsen
• Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: A Response to Evangelical Feminism – eds. John Piper & Wayne Grudem
• Discovering Biblical Equality: Biblical, Theological, Cultural, and Practical Perspectives – eds. Ronald Pierce, Cynthia Westfal, et al.
• God’s Design for Man and Woman: A Biblical-Theological Survey – Andreas J. Köstenberger & Mararet Elizabeth Köstenberger
• The End of Woman: How Smashing the Patriarchy Has Destroyed Us – Carrie Gress
• Sexual Politics – Kate Millett
• Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women’s Liberation – Mary Daly
• Soft Patriarchs, New Men: How Christianity Shapes Fathers and Husbands – W. Bradford Wilcox

Resources to Click

• “God the Father: Namesake of All Fatherhood”– Kyle Claunch
• “Theological Language and the Fatherhood of God: An Exegetical and Dogmatic Account” – Kyle Claunch
• “On the Improper Use of Proper Speech: A Response to Ronald W. Pierce and Erin M. Heim, ‘Biblical Images of God as Moter and Spiritual Formation’” – Kyle Claunch
• Theme of the Month: The Paterfamilias: Making Fatherhood Great Again
• Give to Support the Work

Books to Read

• Post Reformation Reformed Dogmatics – Richard Muller
• Theoretical Practical Divinity, Vol. 2: Faith in the Triune God – Petrus Van Mastricht
• Reformed Dogmatics, Vol. 2: God and Creation – Herman Bavinck
• Summa Theologiae Book 1 – Thomas Aquinas
• “Baptists, Sola Scriptura, and the Place of Christian Tradition,” in Baptists and the Christian Tradition – ed. Matthew Emerson, Christopher Morgan & R. Lucas Stamps
• John Gill’s Commentary of the First Letter of John – John Gill
• She Who Is: The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse – Elizabeth A. Johnson
• Women and the Gender of God – Amy Peeler
• The Father and the Feminine: Exploring the Grammar of God and Gender – Spencer Miles Boersma
• The Same God Who Works All Things: Inseparable Operations in Trinitarian Theology – Adonis Vidu

ABOUT THE EPISODE

Listen in as David Schrock and Trent Hunter interview Aaron Rock on his Christ Over All essay: "Wisdom for Fathers: Raising up Children in a Fallen Down World"

Timestamps

• 00:35 – Intro
• 04:33 – What Happened to Aaron’s Church During Covid? How Did this Affect His Children?
• 09:56 – What Influenced Aaron Rock’s Article?
• 14:10 – What Were Some of the High Leve Things That Stood Out?
• 17:40 – What Encouragement Would You Give to a Father Who Feels He has ‘Blown It’?
• 24:26 – Fathers Shepherding Teenagers into Adulthood
• 30:18 – How Important is it to Have a Right Doctrine of God’s Fatherhood?
• 35:10 – Five Duties for Fathers
• 46:57 – Counsel for those Who Wish to Have More ‘Form’ in Their Family
• 52:09 – More on Form and Freedom in Marriage & Family
• 59:30 – How are Fathers Helped By Assessing Their Family?
• 1:05:22 – Books to Recommend for Fathers
• 1:08:38 – Outro

Resources to Click

• “Wisdom for Fathers: Raising up Children in a Fallen Down World” – Aaron Rock
• “Actor Christopher Walken’s brutally honest answer about choosing to be childfree resonates with many” – Angelina Dsouza
• “Seth Rogen Gets Candid About Not Wanting Kids” – Chanel Vargas
• “Bill Maher Lobbies for New Holiday: ‘I Didn’t Reproduce Day’” – Rosemary Rossi
• Theme of the Month: The Paterfamilias: Making Fatherhood Great Again
• Give to Support the Work

Books to Read

• Tender Warrior: Ever Man’s Purpose, Every Woman’s Dream, Every Child’s Hope – Stu Webber
• Duties of Parents – J.C. Ryle
• Knowing God – J.I. Packer

Resources to Click

• “Wisdom for Fathers: Raising up Children in a Fallen Down World” – Aaron Rock
• “Actor Christopher Walken’s brutally honest answer about choosing to be childfree resonates with many” – Angelina Dsouza
• “Seth Rogen Gets Candid About Not Wanting Kids” – Chanel Vargas
• “Bill Maher Lobbies for New Holiday: ‘I Didn’t Reproduce Day’” – Rosemary Rossi
• Theme of the Month: The Paterfamilias: Making Fatherhood Great Again
• Give to Support the Work

Timestamps

• 00:24 - Intro
• 06:01 – Why Christ Over All Published this Piece
• 07:07 – What Was Will Spencer’s Aim With His Piece?
• 09:16 – What Was Illuminating for Dr. Wellum?
• 11:06 – Defining the Manosphere, and 4Chan
• 14:44 – The ‘Expert’ Claim and Will’s Testimony
• 18:29 – Is There A Growing Need to Know What It Means to Be a Man?
• 22:14 – Has Social Media Made a Difference in the Way Men Interact?
• 24:36 – Is Father Famine a Necessary Condition for Neo-Nazi Ideology?
• 28:40 – Is ‘Neo-Nazi’ a Helpful Term?
• 33:42 – What Changed Will’s Mind on Leaning Towards Neo-Nazi Ideology?
• 39:16 – What Kind of Arguments are Being Made?
• 41:40 – The Political Ramifications of a Christian Prince
• 46:46 – The Six Hour Stone Choir Podcast
• 51:35 – The Place of White Men Today
• 56:45 – Picking Our Role Models Carefuly
• 59:17 – Fighting as Christians & Addressing Women
• 1:03:34 – Is There a Place to Ask Questions about Historical Revisionism?
• 1:09:15 – Membership in a Church Regarding The Question of Neo-Nazism
• 1:23:12 – The Problem of Porn vs. The Problem of Neo-Nazism?
• 1:27:28 – Stone Choir’s View of Evangelism
• 1:32:05 - Outro 

Resources To Click

• “The Dangerous Secret Your Young Men Are Keeping: Neo-Nazi Thought Has Entered the Church” – Will Spencer
• “Defeating Holocaust Denialism” – Updated” – Will Spencer
• The Will Spencer Podcast
• “Single Parents in the United States” – Wikipedia
• “Percentage of births to Unmarried Women in the United States from 1980 to 2023” – Statista
• “The Truth About Pepe the Frog and the Cult of Kek”
• Will Spencer Tweet about the Stone Choir Podcast
• Hitler Hated Christ X Account
• “A Neo-Nazi Godsend” – Douglas Wilson
• The Antioch Declaration
• James White vs. Corey Mahler Debate Black Sanctification
• Theme of the Month: The Paterfamilias: Making Fatherhood Great Again
• Give to Support the Work

Books to Read

• The Unprotected Class: How Anti-White Racism is Tearing America Apart - Jeremy Carl
• Return of the Strong Gods: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West - R.R. Reno
• Father Hunger: Why God Calls Men to Love and Lead Their Families – Douglas Wilson
• Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity – Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
• Nazi Ecology: The Oak Sacrifice of the Judeo-Christian Worldview in the Holocaust – R. Mark Musser
• Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion - Norman Rufus Colin Cohn
• KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps – Nikolaus Wachsmann
• Survival in Auschwitz – Primo Levi
• Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
• The Hiding Place – Corrie Ten Boom
• Christ in Dachau – Fr. Johannes Lenz
• From Darwin to Hitler – Dr. Richard Weikart
• Hitler’s Religion: The Twisted Beliefs that Drove the Third Reich – Dr. Richard Weikart
• The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich – William Shirer
• The Final Solution: The Attempt to Exterminate the Jews of Europe, 1939-1945 – Gerald Reitlinger
• Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland – Christopher Browning
• Hitler’s Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields – Wendy Lower

Resources to Click

• “The Dangerous Secret Your Young Men Are Keeping: Neo-Nazi Thought Has Entered the Church” – Will Spencer
• “Defeating Holocaust Denialism” – Updated” – Will Spencer
• “Single Parents in the United States” – Wikipedia
• “Percentage of births to Unmarried Women in the United States from 1980 to 2023” – Statista
• Never Gonna Give You Up – Rick Astley
• Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade RickRoll
• Feels Good Man Trailer #1
• “The Truth About Pepe the Frog and the Cult of Kek”
• Poster of a Jewish man Controlling Spiders Weaving a Conspiracy – United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• “Protocols of Learned Elders of Zion” – FBI Vault
• “The Turner Diaries” – William Luther Pierce
• “The Turner Diaries” – ADL
• “The father, the son, and the racist spirit: being raised by az white supremacist” – Johnathon Kelso and Seyward Darby
• “The Guru of White Hate” – Will Blythe
• “The Turner Diaries, Other Racist Novels, Inspire Extremist Violence” – Camille Jackson
• Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told – IMDB Listing
• Europa: The Last Battle – IMDB Listing
• “Fact-Checking Europa: The Last Battle | Part 1” – Keith Woods
• Will Spencer Tweet about the Stone Choir Podcast
• Hitler Hated Christ X Account
• “A Neo-Nazi Godsend” – Douglas Wilson
• Theme of the Month: The Paterfamilias: Making Fatherhood Great Again
• Give to Support the Work

 Books to Read

• The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
• The Lord of the Flies – William Golding
• Nazi Ecology: The Oak Sacrifice of the Judeo-Christian Worldview in the Holocaust – R. Mark Musser
• Warrant for Genocide: The Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion – Norman Rufus Colin Cohn
• KL: A History of the Nazi Concentration Camps – Nikolaus Wachsmann
• Survival in Auschwitz – Primo Levi
• Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
• The Hiding Place – Corrie Ten Boom
• Christ in Dachau – Fr. Johannes Lenz
• From Darwin to Hitler – Dr. Richard Weikart
• Hitler’s Religion: The Twisted Beliefs that Drove the Third Reich – Dr. Richard Weikart