Via Patrum: What the First Christians Believed

Via Patrum: What the First Christians Believed

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  • What the First Christians Meant by Predestined
    What did the first Christians mean when they said "predestined"? The word is Paul's, and Paul sets it in bounds: "those whom he foreknew, he also predestined," and the destination is "to be conformed to the image of his Son." This episode traces, from the primary sources and in their own words, how that meaning held for three centuries, how it changed in the late works of Augustine, why the medieval church condemned its hardest form in the monk Gottschalk, and how Calvin and the Synod of Dort completed the redefinition. Every quotation is verbatim and sourced below. Judge for yourself, from the texts.
    Chapters:
    0:00 Prologue
    0:42 Chapter One: The Word in Its Bounds
    5:36 Chapter Two: The First Christians Against Fate
    10:01 Chapter Three: The Turn of Augustine
    13:18 Chapter Four: Gottschalk and the Medieval Centuries
    16:00 Chapter Five: Calvin, Dort, and the Way Back
    Sources: Justin Martyr, First Apology 43 and Second Apology 7; Irenaeus, Against Heresies 4.37; Clement of Alexandria, Who Is the Rich Man That Shall Be Saved? 10; Tertullian, Against Marcion 2.6; Origen, Against Celsus 2.20, On Prayer 6, and On First Principles 3.1; John Chrysostom, Homilies on John 46 and Homilies on Romans 16; Augustine, On the Predestination of the Saints 4 and On the Gift of Perseverance 14; John Calvin, Institutes 3.21.5. Scripture: Romans 8:29 to 30, Romans 9:11 to 23, Ephesians 1:5 and 11, 1 Peter 1:1 to 2, 1 Timothy 2:4 to 6, 2 Peter 3:9, Ezekiel 33:11.
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Documentary episodes on what the earliest Christians actually believed, drawn from their own writings, read aloud and explained. Via Patrum means the way of the fathers. Each episode takes one belief that Christians discuss today and traces it through the primary sources themselves, quoted verbatim and named, so you can judge for yourself what the first Christians believed and where later ideas entered the story. No secondhand summaries. The pilot episode asks what the first Christians meant by "predestined," in the words of Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and John Chrysostom. Follow the show so you do not miss an episode. Every author quoted here can be read and heard in full, free, in the Via Patrum library: https://viapatrum.org