Jordan and Brandon discuss the merits of Christian Platonism. What is it? Should we agree with it? We primarily interact with Craig Carter's definition and claims.

Resources:

1) Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition: Recovering the Genius of Premodern Exegesis, by Craig A. Carter (https://www.amazon.com/Interpreting-Scripture-Great-Tradition-Recovering/dp/0801098726/ref=sr_1_1?crid=31IDD0ZA2SBG3&keywords=craig+carter+interpreting+scripture&qid=1572023528&sprefix=craig+carter+in%2Caps%2C350&sr=8-1)
2) Jordan Steffaniak, Review of Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition: Recovering the Genius of Premodern Exegesis, by Craig A. Carter (Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2018), in Puritan Reformed Journal 11, no. 1 (January 2019): 182-86 (https://23eu5p6rifo1ukv6iilu8lo3-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/PRJ-Vol-11_No-1_2019.pdf)
3) Philosophy for Understanding Theology, Diogenes Allen and Eric O Springsted (https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Understanding-Theology-Second-Diogenes-ebook/dp/B002E9HB16/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=philosophy+for+understanding+theology&qid=1572022909&sr=8-1)
4) THE SUPERIORITY OF PRE-CRITICAL METAPHYSICS: Why We Need to Recover Christian Platonism by Craig A. Carter (https://www.rbap.net/our-books/journal-of-the-institute-of-reformed-baptist-studies-2019/)
5) God over All: Divine Aseity and the Challenge of Platonism (https://www.amazon.com/God-Over-All-Challenge-Platonism/dp/0198802927/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=william+lane+craig+god+over+all&qid=1575475437&sr=8-1)

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Jordan and Brandon talk with Conner McMakin about pastoring theologically. How do you cultivate a learning context in your church? How do you cultivate meaningful membership?

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Jordan and Brandon host Dr. J.T. Turner to discuss the bodily resurrection and the so-called doctrine of the intermediate state. What should we believe about both and is the intermediate state a real place?

Resources:

1) J.T. Turner, On the Resurrection of the Dead: A New Metaphysics of Afterlife for Christian Thought (https://www.amazon.com/Resurrection-Dead-Metaphysics-Afterlife-Christian/dp/1138350621/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=turner+resurrection+of+the+dead&qid=1572024020&sr=8-1)
2) Patrick Toner, Hylemorphic Animalism, Philosophical Studies, 155 (1): 65-81
3) Eleonore Stump, Aquinas (https://www.amazon.com/Aquinas-Arguments-Philosophers-Eleonore-Stump/dp/0415378982)

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Jordan and Brandon talk with TJ Daugherty about the life and legacy of Patrick Hues Mell. Who is he? Why is he important? What does he have to say to modern Baptists?

1) The Life of Patrick Hues Mell, P.H. Mell Jr. (https://www.amazon.com/Life-Patrick-Hughes-Mell/dp/0873771672/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=patrick+hughes+mell&qid=1572023588&sr=8-1)
2) Polity, ed. Mark Dever (https://www.9marks.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Polity.pdf)
3) The Baptist Story: From English Sect to Global Movement, ed. Haykin, Finn, and Chute (https://www.amazon.com/Baptist-Story-English-Global-Movement/dp/1433673754/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=haykin+and+finn+baptist+story&qid=1572023765&sr=8-1)
4) The Baptist Heritage: Four Centuries of Witness, H. Leon McBeth https://www.amazon.com/Baptist-Heritage-Four-Centuries-Witness/dp/0805465693/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_1?keywords=macbeth+baptist+heritage&qid=1572023826&sr=8-1-fkmr2)
5) Baptist Theology, James Leo Garrett (https://www.amazon.com/Baptist-Theology-Four-Century-Griffith-Endowed/dp/0881467073/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=james+leo+garrett+baptist+theology&qid=1573614476&sr=8-1)

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Jordan and Brandon discuss the ordinary means of grace with J. Ryan Davidson. What is ordinary means spirituality? How does it differ from contemporary spirituality? What role do the sacraments play?

Check out Ryan's work on the ordinary means:

1) A Covenant Feast: Reflections on the Lord's Table (https://www.amazon.com/Covenant-Feast-Reflections-Lords-Table-ebook/dp/B01MA1DVRC/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=j+ryan+davidson&qid=1570218168&sr=8-5)
2) Green Pastures: A Primer on the Ordinary Means of Grace (http://www.rbap.net/our-books/green-pastures-by-j-ryan-davidson/)

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Jordan and Brandon continue their discussion with Chris Woznicki on the atonement before discussing prayer. What is it? Does it change God's mind? How can you believe in predestination and prayer?

Check out Chris's work on prayer:

1)  “Are We Free to Pray? On the Freedom Necessary for Petitionary Prayer” in Evangelical Review of Theology (Forthcoming, 2019)
2)  “What are we Doing When We Pray? Rekindling a Reformation Theology of Petitionary Prayer” in Calvin Theological Journal 53.2 (2018)
3)  “Peter Martyr Vermigli’s Account of Petitionary Prayer: A Reformation Alternative to Contemporary Two-Way Contingency Accounts” in Philosophia Christi 20.1 (2018)

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Jordan and Brandon discuss the nature of the atonement, competing theories of the atonement, and Baptist understandings of the atonement with Chris Woznicki.

Check out Chris's work on the atonement: 

1) “The Coherence of Penal Substitution: An Edwardsean Defense” in Tyndale Bulletin 70.1 (2019)
2) “’One Can’t Believe Impossible Things’: A New Defense of Penal Substitutionary Atonement in Light of the Legal Concepts of Vicarious Liability and Respondeat Superior” in The Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology 37.2 (2019)
3) “Atonement and Anthropology: T.F. Torrance’s Doctrine of Atonement as a Test Case” in Evangelical Philosophical Society Web Articles: The Philosophy of Theological Anthropology (2018)
4) “Do we Believe in Consequences? Revisiting the “Incoherence Objection’ to Penal Substitution” in Neue Zeitschrift fur Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie 60.2 (2018)
5) “The Son in the Hands of a Violent God: Assessing Trinitarian Violence in Jonathan Edwards’s Covenant of Redemption” in The Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 58.3 (2015)

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Jordan and Brandon walk through what analytic theology is once again, answering questions posed by listeners and defending its use and worth.

Recommended reading:

1) Thomas McCall, An Invitation to Analytic Christian Theology (https://www.amazon.com/Invitation-Analytic-Christian-Theology/dp/0830840958/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=thomas+mccal+invitation+to+analytic+theology&qid=1570495159&sr=8-1-spell)
2) Oliver Crisp and Michael Rae (eds.), Analytic Theology (https://www.amazon.com/Analytic-Theology-New-Essays-Philosophy/dp/0199203563/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?keywords=michael+ray+analytic+theology&qid=1570495192&sr=8-1-fkmr1)
3) William Wood, Analytic Theology as a Way of Life (https://journals.tdl.org/jat/index.php/jat/article/view/jat.2014-1.220812221403a/225)

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Jordan and Brandon interview Jake Stone on the New Hampshire Confession. What is it? How does it differ from other confessions? How is it useful? Should we use it today?

Check out Jake's recommendations:

1) By His Grace and For His Glory: A Historical, Theological and Practical Study of the Doctrines of Grace in Baptist Life, Tom Nettles (https://press.founders.org/shop/by-his-grace-and-for-his-glory/)
2) The Armies of the Lamb: The Spirituality of Andrew Fuller, Michael Haykin (https://www.amazon.com/Armies-Lamb-Spirituality-Classics-Reformed/dp/1894400135/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=armies+of+the+lamb+haykin&qid=1570639091&sr=8-1)
3) Ardent Love for Jesus: English Baptists and the Experience of Revival in the Long Eighteenth Century, Michael Haykin (https://www.amazon.com/Ardent-Love-Jesus-Experience-Eighteenth/dp/1850492484/ref=sr_1_22?qid=1570639138&refinements=p_27%3AMichael+A.+G.+Haykin&s=books&sr=1-22&text=Michael+A.+G.+Haykin)
4) Manual of Theology, John Dagg (https://founders.org/library/manual-of-theology-john-dagg/)

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Brandon and Jordan interview Jake Stone on his personal journey from an independent fundamentalist KJV only Baptist to a 1689 confessional Baptist.

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