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Welcome to Banned Books, where we read and converse with the rebel children, the holy mischief-makers of God, who fight against the kind of useless religious, spiritual, and moral methods of life improvement that seeks to smother the glory of God in Jesus Christ. We want to introduce you to those who forgot everything except Jesus Christ and him crucified. We all struggle with fear of being last, lost, least, littlest, and dead, and so we are here to encourage, challenge, provoke, and maybe ...
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Beyond the Book is presented by Literary Affairs a literary lifestyle company that has been promoting great literature and fostering a community of book lovers for two decades. Beyond the Book offers book club style salons with best-selling and literary debut authors, literary talks on classic novels, professionally facilitated book groups, panel discussions and cultural conversations related to current books. Each audio or video episode is curated by Literary Affairs founder and leader Juli ...
Are We Just Rats in a Maze? In this episode, we discuss grief, mourning, death, and hope while reading C.S. Lewis’s book, A Grief Observed. SHOW NOTES: A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis https://amzn.to/3K62Gtl A portrait of Joy Davidman https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/resources/helen-joy-davidman-mrs-c-s-lewis-1915-1960-a-portrait/ SUPPORT: 1517 Pod…
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#173- John Senior and the Restoration of Realism Part 2
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Scott and Karl finish their discussion of Father Francis Bethel's biography, John Senior and the Restoration of Realism. According to Scott, if you have concerns about yourself, how you interact with the world, and where the world is going— you need to read some John Senior as well as this biography. In his works, John Senior discusses how there ar…
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299: Philipp Nicolai - The Joy of Eternal Life
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I’ve Got That Joy, Joy, Joy, Down in My Heart. In this episode, we discuss death, rebirth, and eternal life as examined and explained in The Joy of Eternal Life by Philip Nikolai. SHOW NOTES: The Joy of Eternal Life https://amzn.to/3Jm0vQN Hymn Sing Happy Hour https://learn.1517.org/hymn-sing-happy-hour SUPPORT: 1517 Podcast Network https://www.151…
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#172- John Senior and the Restoration of Realism Part 1
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Scott and Karl begin their discussion of Father Francis Bethel's biography that examines the life and thought of "cultural critic, university professor, and sometime cowboy," John Senior. John Senior is the founder of Clear Creek Abbey, a Benedictine Abbey in Cherokee County, Oklahoma. He is the author of both The Death of Christian Culture and The…
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298: Gregory P. Schulz - Baptized to Die
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A Harsh & Necessary Conversation About Death. In this episode, we discuss death and resurrection concerning the death of a child from Gregory P. Schulz’s book, The Problem of Suffering: A Father’s Hope. SHOW NOTES: Gregory P. Schulz - The Problem of Suffering: A Fathers Hope https://amzn.to/3T2FRJT Hymn Sing Happy Hour https://learn.1517.org/hymn-s…
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297: Norman Nagel - A Lenten Sermon
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Red, Red Wine… In this episode, we discuss Norman Nagel’s Lenten sermon on Jesus’ parable of the vineyard workers, focusing on the gift-giving God and what interferes with Jesus being a gift for us. SHOW NOTES: Selected Sermons of Norman Nagel https://amzn.to/3mnaDAW 212-1 In the Name of Jesus: Sermons by Norman E. Nagel, Part 1 https://logia.org/a…
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296: Bo Giertz - Christ’s Church: The Parish Church
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Say Hello to My Little Church! In this episode, we discuss Christ’s church and all its vagaries and particularities as expressed in Bo Giertz’s book, Christ’s Church. SHOW NOTES: Christ’s Church: Her Biblical Roots, Her Dramatic History, Her Saving Presence, Her Glorious Future https://a.co/d/4vPwPgi SUPPORT: 1517 Podcast Network https://www.1517.o…
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295: Melanchthon - The people of God are not made by fleshly propagation and the worship of the Law
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Is It True, Or Is It Truly True? In this episode, we discuss election, true and false church, law, mercy, and why we can’t stop judging the Gospel as we read Philip Melanchthon’s 1541 commentary on Paul’s letter to the Romans. SHOW NOTES: Commentary on Romans by Philipp Melanchthon https://a.co/d/bY23Uqv SUPPORT: 1517 Podcast Network https://www.15…
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294: Paulson - Trying to Believe in Double Predestination
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Predestination Is Sick! In this episode, we discuss Steven Paulson’s book, The Outlaw God, focusing our conversation on double presentation, preaching God’s electing promise to sinners, and the consequences of worshipping a philosophical-material god. What are the consequences for people who don’t have a preacher of God’s promise? What does God’s p…
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293: Capon - All God Needs to Make a Preacher is a Nobody
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Dirt Naps Are For The Living. In this episode, we wrap up our discussion of Robert Capon’s, The Foolishness of Preaching, focusing on preaching forgiveness, insisting that the dead reform their deadness, and the consequences of high anthropology. SHOW NOTES: The Foolishness of Preaching: Proclaiming the Gospel Against the Wisdom of the World, Chapt…
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292: Capon - Foolishness of Preaching
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Your Guilt Is Misplaced. In this episode, we discuss Robert Capon’s book, The Foolishness of Preaching. We focus on Capon’s argument for why death and resurrection must be preached for a sermon to be rightly called a Christian sermon, for it to be a Gospel proclamation, and the consequences for preachers who avoid addressing sin, death, and forgive…
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291: Schleiermacher - The Death of the Saviour the End of All Sacrifices
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Isn’t That A Daisy? In this episode, we discuss Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Good Friday sermon, focusing on preaching the cross, where to locate sin, what effect the law has on our external works, and why a proclaimer is necessary to get the Gospel. SHOW NOTES: The Death of the Saviour the End of All Sacrifices https://biblehub.com/sermons/auth/schl…
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290: Schaeffer - A Protestant Evangelical Speaks to His Lutheran Friends
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Francis & The Sunshine Band. In this episode, we discuss Francis Schaeffer’s ecumenical address to Lutherans, the consequences of seeking church unity using legal categories, the dilemma with Christian purity, the distinction between the hidden and revealed church, and why it matters. — SHOW NOTES: A Protestant Evangelical Speaks to His Lutheran Fr…
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289: Melanchthon - What a horrible and wretched spectacle!
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Love Amongst The Cling-Ons. In this episode, we discuss Philip Melanchthon’s Loci Communes, focusing our attention on justification, faith, love, and prayer. — SHOW NOTES: Melanchthon and Bucer (Library of Christian Classics) by Wilhelm Pauck amzn.to/3Qh671w The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia https://youtu.be/mY0xM26fCPA SUPPORT 1517 Po…
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288: Tertullian - What then has Athens to do with Jerusalem?
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How I Met Your Other Mother. In this episode, we discuss Tertullian on Heresies, especially the relationship of philosophy to theology, and how to pastorally address heresies past and present. — SHOW NOTES: 1 Clement 37 - http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/1clement-lightfoot.html Didache - https://legacyicons.com/content/didache.pdf Autism,…
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287: 1 Clement - Let our whole body be kept in working order in Christ Jesus
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Welcome to the Church. Can I Take Your Order? In this episode, we discuss Clement of Rome on the Church, especially good order, fruits of faith, and why the congregation at Corinth shouldn’t run off its pastors. — SHOW NOTES: 1 Clement 37 - http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/text/1clement-lightfoot.html Didache - https://legacyicons.com/content/…
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#171- Shelby Foote's The Civil War Part 1
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To round out 2022, Scott and Karl decided to revisit Shelby Foote's 2,968-page, 1.2 million-word history of the American Civil War. Collectively, Foote's history of the Civil War includes three compelling volumes: Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, and Red River to Appomattox. Scott and Karl begin talking about the tenuous natur…
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286: Lewis - The whole book, indeed, is a picture of the Tree of Life
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It’s A Show, About Nothing! In this episode, we revisit and discuss C.S. Lewis’ introduction to Athanasius, On the Incarnation. We end up doing a recap of the past year, which means Christmas movies, the incarnation, and lots and lots of rabbit trails on this episode of The Banned Books Podcast. — SHOW NOTES: Introduction to St. Athanasius' "On the…
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285: R.C. Sproul - The Birth of Jesus
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Let’s Not Talk About Love. In this episode, we discuss R.C. Sproul’s Christmas sermon wherein he preaches on the Gospel of Luke chapter 2. The espresso kicked in early, and we read through the whole sermon before diving deep into the distinction between exposition and proclamation, so buckle up. Riley talks too much while Gillespie exercises patien…
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284: Early Church Fathers on the Birth of Jesus
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Is It Too Early for Jesus’ Birth? In this episode, we read excerpts from various early church fathers on Jesus’ birth, with a heavy emphasis on the historicity of God’s incarnation. What part did earthly signs play in announcing Jesus’ birth? Why did it matter to the early fathers that God was born on an actual day, in an actual place, at an actual…
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283: Luther - It is true that the child was born of the virgin and is mine
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It’s Addressed To You. Open It! In this episode, we discuss Martin Luther’s sermon on Luke 2 for Christmas afternoon. What’s the consequence of the “to you” and “for you” of Luke’s Gospel message for Christians? — SHOW NOTES: Sermon for Christmas afternoon, Luke 2:1-20; Luther's Works, Volume 51: Sermons 1 by Martin Luther https://amzn.to/3FCIYTK S…
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282: Irenaeus - Learn that Christ, born of the virgin, is your Lord and Savior
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Ted, Just Admit It! He’s Always Been The Lamb. In this episode, we discuss Irenaeus’ Proof of Apostolic Preaching and what he has to say to those who make a show of faith but deny the incarnation of the Son according to the witness of Scripture. — SHOW NOTES: Proof of the Apostolic Preaching by Irenaeus https://amzn.to/3uzkgxg SUPPORT 1517 Podcast …
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281: The Torah Anticipates Lawbreaking
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Torah! Torah! Torah! In this episode, we discuss the book, Reading Moses, Seeing Jesus: How the Torah (Law) Fulfills its Goal in Yeshua (Jesus). This time it’s all about how to read and exegete the Scriptures to reveal the purpose and goal of the Torah and what that means for us today. — SHOW NOTES: Reading Moses, Seeing Jesus: How the Torah (Law) …
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280: Augustine - The Righteousness Which is of God, and the Righteousness Which is of the Law
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Who’s Running the Verbs of Grace? In this episode, we discuss Augustine’s defense of God’s grace against the Pelagians, with a healthy dose of Reformation theology added for seasoning. — SHOW NOTES: Augustine - On the Grace of Christ, and on Original Sin https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/15061.htm SUPPORT 1517 Podcast Network https://www.1517.org/p…
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279: Tim Keller - The Purpose of Christmas
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They Call Me… Tim. In this episode, we discuss Tim Keller’s sermon, The Purpose of Christmas. Does it matter that Jesus’ birth is a historical fact? What’s the difference between an eyewitness account and a legend? What are we really preaching at Christmas, and why should anyone care? — SHOW NOTES: Tim Keller - The Purpose of Christmas https://www.…
Divide by Two, but Add by One. In this episode, we discuss Nestorius’ sermon on whether Mary was Theotokos or not and what happens when one tries to comment on the two natures of God using Greek philosophy to exegete Scripture. — SHOW NOTES: Nestorius - First Sermon Against The Theotokos The Christological Controversy (Sources of Early Christian Th…
God Doesn’t Do Prophet-sharing. In this episode, we discuss Gerhard von Rad’s explanation of a prophet’s freedom and lack of choice regarding his call and proclamation. What’s at stake for preachers, and all Christians, when God calls us to speak a specific word, to a specific people, at a specific time according to his decision? — SHOW NOTES: Von …
God Has No Skin in The Game? In this episode, we discuss Tertullian’s argument against Marcion about God’s being born flesh and blood in his treatise, On The Flesh of Christ. What’s at stake when well-meaning Christians disembody God and, consequently, Christians? — SHOW NOTES: Tertullian bio https://www.theopedia.com/tertullian Tertullian - On the…
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275: Karl Barth - I am he that wills but does not perform
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What We've Got Here Is Failure to Communicate. In this episode, we discuss Karl Barth’s Roman’s commentary, which cast a long and influential shadow over much of twentieth-century theology, and what it can teach today. — SHOW NOTES: The Epistle to the Romans https://amzn.to/3E1xZSZ SUPPORT 1517 Podcast Network https://www.1517.org/podcasts/ Support…
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274: Ireneaus of Lyon - Jesus summed up in Himself the long history of the human race
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The Stuff That Heresies Are Made Of. In this episode, we discuss Ireneaus’ attack on the Marcionite and Gnostic heresies, which sought to divide Christ’s two natures, and the ramifications of this teaching for the churches today. — SHOW NOTES: The Christological Controversy (Sources of Early Christian Thought) https://amzn.to/3fCTrEv SUPPORT 1517 P…
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#170- The Good Life: Helen and Scott Nearing's Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living
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We're back! Scott and Karl explore Helen and Scott Nearing's The Good Life (1954) and Continuing the Good Life (1979) in a new, long-form podcast. In the 20th century, Scott and Helen Nearing became the new models of self-sufficient lifestyles and rural homesteading. Having abandoned their life in New York City in 1932, rural Vermont became the pla…
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273: Forde - The preaching and teaching of Jesus can only be handed on as the Word of the cross
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Did Jesus Have to Die For That Sermon? In this episode, we discuss Gerhard Force’s book "Theology is For Proclamation," specifically the focus and function of all Jesus’ preaching and how it defines Christian preaching in every generation. — SHOW NOTES: Forde - Theology is for Proclamation https://amzn.to/3SG7zu8 The Crucified God: 40th Anniversary…
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272: Augustine - The authority of Scripture should be respected and accepted with the purest faith
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Blind Faith Is Worthless Unless It’s Blind Faith in Us. In this episode, we discuss Augustine’s Confessions, specifically Augustine’s reflection on the Manichaeans and the effect God’s Word had on his conversion to Christianity. — SHOW NOTES: Augustine - Confessions https://amzn.to/3DFhBau SUPPORT 1517 Podcast Network https://www.1517.org/podcasts/…
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271: Nietzsche - A theologian of today not only errs when he speaks but actually lies
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We Are Live! In this episode, we recorded a live show at the Here We Still Stand 2022 conference, so of course, we read Nietzsche and discussed salvation. — SHOW NOTES: Nietzsche - The Antichrist https://genius.com/Friedrich-nietzsche-the-antichrist-full-text-annotated SUPPORT 1517 Podcast Network https://www.1517.org/podcasts/ Support the work of …
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270: Matthias Flacius - Rules for Understanding the Sacred Scriptures
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Do You Read The Bible? What’s Your Secret? In this episode, we discuss how to understand the Bible from Matthias Flacius’ book, How to Understand the Sacred Scriptures. — SHOW NOTES: Matthias Flacius - How to Understand the Sacred Scriptures https://amzn.to/3CDHs22 More Flacius https://amzn.to/3eeLJzH Formula of Concord https://bookofconcord.org/ep…
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269: Josh McDowell - What about Science?
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It’s A Bittersweet, Scientific Symphony of Atheism. In this episode, we discuss Josh McDowell’s book, More Than A Carpenter, and the topic of belief, science, and atheism. Do science and faith contradict one another? Is atheism a reasonable position over-against belief in God? — SHOW NOTES: Josh McDowell - More Than a Carpenter https://amzn.to/3xQw…
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268: McDowell - Lord, Liar, or Lunatic?
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Liar, Liar, Jesus Is A Lunatic? In this episode, we read More Than A Carpenter by Josh McDowell. We discuss the cultural-historical argument that Jesus was either a good moral teacher or a prophet, or whether he was a liar, lunatic, or Lord. — SHOW NOTES: Josh McDowell - More Than a Carpenter https://amzn.to/3xQwXWy or http://www.voiceofthewatchman…
Scott and Karl are back after a brief hiatus to finish their discussion of Dean Koontz's 2003 thriller, Odd Thomas. While the ending might make you emotional, this book satisfies its genre— it's suspenseful, memorable, and thoroughly entertaining. Still, Scott points out that reading this type of fiction in the present times is getting harder and h…
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267: C.S. Lewis - It is no good asking for a simple religion
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Does God Care Whether We’re Good or Bad? We conclude our discussion of Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis. If Christians live in enemy territory, as Lewis writes, how does that affect the defense of our faith? Do we have free will, and why would God give us free will if he knew we’d eat from Eden’s tree? What does conscience have to do with our relati…
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266: C.S. Lewis - Christianity is a religion you could not have guessed
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Let’s Fight! In this episode, we read and discuss C.S. Lewis’ popular book: Mere Christianity. What do Christians believe? How do we discuss religion, good and evil, God and the devil, and why Christianity isn’t something anyone would ever think to invent? — SHOW NOTES: C.S. Lewis - Mere Christianity http://www.ntslibrary.com/PDF%20Books/Mere%20Chr…
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265: Flannery O’Connor - Revelation pt. 2
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Singing in Tune, But Singing The Wrong Song... In this episode, we conclude our discussion of Revelation by Flannery O’Connor. How does a theologian of the cross reveal the truth to people who don’t want to listen? Paradox, misdirection, and revelation. — SHOW NOTES: "Revelation" From "Everything That Rises Must Converge" By Flannery O’Connor https…
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264: Flannery O’Connor - Revelation pt. 1
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A Christ-Haunted Parable... In this episode, we discuss faith, segregation, and the Christ-haunted south as described by Flannery O’Connor in her short story, Revelation. What happens to us when we discuss race, gender, class, and culture apart from Christ Jesus? What does it mean that the churches are Christ-haunted? What happens when the churches…
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263: Dostoyevsky - The Devil—Ivan's Nightmare pt. 2
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You Silver-tongues Devil... We conclude our discussion of Dostoevsky’s dialogue between Ivan Karamazov and the devil from the Brothers Karamazov. — SHOW NOTES: The Brothers Karamazov - Book 11 - Chapter 9 https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28054/28054-h/28054-h.htm Reds https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082979/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Biblia Pauperum https://amzn…
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262: Dostoyevsky - The Devil—Ivan's Nightmare pt. 1
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Speak if The Devil… In this episode, we discuss Ivan Karamazov’s argument with the devil from Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel, The Brothers Karamazov. How do we recognize the evil one when he comes to us, mainly when he portrays himself as someone who wants what’s best for us? — SHOW NOTES: The Brothers Karamazov - Book 11 - Chapter 9 https://www.gutenbe…
