The Rev. Ben Randall, senior associate rector of Galilee Church, Virginia Beach and author of the new book Introducing Anglicanism: A Catechism on the Thirty-Nine Articles joins Andrew and James on the podcast today to talk about his book, along with sharing the story of how he came to faith. 

Shownotes

Link (also above) to purchase the book

Andrew refers to things he read about regarding educational trends getting away from reading in the Atlantic article "The Elite College Students Who Can't Read Books"

Andrew mentions the following article in the Anglican Way by (former guest of the podcast) Ben Crosby: "The Thirty-Nine Articles and the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States"

Andrew comes on to share his thoughts on the 2024 movie "Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Spy, Assassin" and the way it has been received.

Links:

Eric Metexas' book Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy.

Podcast interview from Homebrewed Christianity with director of the movie (YouTube version)

Myles Werntz's review of the movie in Christianity Today

Andrew and James had a wonderful conversation with Joshua Nickel on his book Walk Between Heaven and Earth: Listening to Martin Luther On How to Be a True Theologian. 

The Reclamation joins forces with Doth Protest in this week's episode. Join Michael Lewis and Brad Kafer as we hear the stories of two Episcopal priests (James Rickenbaker and Kyle Tomlin) and how they each came to gospel clarity. We also discuss the fruits of Christ centered preaching and rightly understanding Jesus' disposition toward us as believers.

Renowned Luther scholar Volker Leppin comes on the podcast to for a great discussion on his most recent book Sola: Christ, Grace, Faith, and Scripture Alone in Martin Luther's Theology from Lutheran Quarterly Books and the famous debate between Martin Luther and Johann Eck in June and July of 1519 known as the Leipzig Debate which proved to be a turning point in Luther's understanding of Scripture's authority. 

Volker Leppin is the Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale Divinity School. Prior to Yale, he taught church history at University of Jena and University of Tübingen. He is the author of many books, monographs, and articles in church history, especially on the Middle Ages, the Reformation, and Martin Luther. He is especially known for his biography of Luther titled Martin Luther: A Late Medieval Life.

The works about Luther that Dr. Leppin mentions were significant for him were:

Karl Holl's "Luther", presented as a lecture on Oct 31st 1917.

Gerhard Ebeling's book Evangelische Evangelienauslegung: Eine Untersuchung zu Luthers Hermeneutik

Heiko Oberman's book Luther: Man Between God and the Devil 

(Andrew also brought up Oberman's book The Dawn of the Reformation: Essays in Late Medieval and Early Reformation Thought)

Mickey Mattox joins Andrew and Stephen on today’s podcast to discuss Roman Catholic scholars who have contributed to the study of Martin Luther. 

Dr. Mattox, a Roman Catholic theologian himself, is the Flack Family Foundation Chair and Professor of Theology at Hillsdale College. He has been lecturing and writing about Martin Luther for decades. 

SHOWNOTES:

Some of Dr. Mattox’s books:

The Substance of the Faith: Luther’s Doctrinal Theology for Today (with Dennis Bielfeldt and Mark Mattes)

Works referenced in this episode:

-Volker Leppin's book Martin Luther: A Late Medieval Life

-the 1983 book Catholic Scholars Dialogue with Luther (by various Roman Catholic scholars of Luther discussed in this episode)

Andrew and James were blessed to be joined by church historian Gerald Bray. In this episode, Dr. Bray discusses his studies of the early church father Tertullian, how we got the Christian Bible, and how people in the early church read, received, and interpreted the Bible. Tune in for a fascinating conversation.

Doth Protest hosts Andrew and James along with friend of the show Connor Longaphie of Transcendent Truth Media attempt to answer some of the questions that popular Roman Catholic apologist says are questions that "Protestants can't answer" in his book A Blue Collar Answer to Protestantism: Catholic Questions Protestants Can't Answer.  But more importantly, we address why cheap polemics and logical fallacies, be they Catholic, Protestant, or whatever, never make for good theology.

We are joined by the Rev. Dr. Joel Scandrett, associate professor of historical theology at Trinity Anglican Seminary, who was also a friend and colleague of J.I. Packer. Together they edited an Anglican catechism To Be a Christian. Dr. Scandrett joins us to talk about Packer as he knew him. Toward the end of the episode, he and James discuss Lord of the Rings (as Andrew doses off).

Dr. Ray Baker joins Andrew and James today to discuss C.S. Lewis' hermeneutics and approach to Scripture. It was such an enjoyable conversation.