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Getting Started
Why Classic Theology?
Introduction to Patristic Interpretation: The Gifts
Top Posts to Get Your Feet Wet:
– The Apostle Peter Had a Wife?!?
– The Seven Deadly Sins: Their Origins and Why to Love the List
– Through the Eye of an ACTUAL Needle: The Fake Gate Theory
– The History of Mary Veneration: A Protestant Perspective
– Augustine and Sex
Bible Questions
•Birthdays in Job?
•THE NEPHILIM! A History of Interpretation
•Through the Eye of an ACTUAL Needle: The Fake Gate Theory
•Asherah and TikTok Apologetics
•What Did Jesus Write in the Dirt in John 8:1-11? Big Name Theologians Weigh In
One Point Per Parable: Julicher is Overrated
The Apostle Peter Had a WIFE?!?!
Apologetics Battle: Simon Magus vs. Peter the Apostle
The Lord’s Prayer: Debts or Trespasses
Conveniently Untranslatable: Sheol, Hades, and Gehenna
Six Major Theories About Why Jesus Healed with Mud made out of Spit (John 9)
What do We Mean By “Apocrypha”?
Historic Theology
General
The History of Mary Veneration: A Protestant Perspective
The Seven Deadly Sins: Their Origins and Why to Love the List
Aquinas and Abortion
Christian Orthodoxy’s Debt to Africa
The Acts of Pilate: Jesus Conquers Hell
Easter Sermons, Augustine of Canterbury, and the Procession to the King of Kent
King of Kings: Abgar and Jesus
The Prosperity Gospel
Christian Perfection and the King James Bible
Arranged By Theologian
Antony of Egypt: The Father of Monks
Dirk Willems: Life After Injustice in the Church
God is Red: Zhang Yinxian and True Discipleship
Heroes of Old… and Me! Jerome’s De Viris Illustribus
No Story Left Untold: The Miracula of Englehard of Langheim
Schleiermacher: Translation and the Gospel
Key Theologians
Augustine
– Augustine and Sex
– Augustine’s Apologetics and Contra Faustum
– Plato, Augustine, and Metaphysical Language
– Augustine’s Commentary on John 13:1-5
Gregory of Nazianzus
– The Patristic Poet
– Becoming God: Gregory of Nazianzus and Theosis
– An Unhappy Faith
– Gregory’s Flight and the Challenge of New Beginnings
Martin Luther
– Letters from Luther: The Struggles (and Gifts) of Wartburg
– Theology Battle: Luther vs Erasmus
Faith and Culture
Can God Act? Charles Taylor and the Impact of Secularism
What We Fight is So Tiny: Trust and Rainer Rilke
Recovering the Sacred: C.S. Lewis, Phillip Rieff, and the Cleveland Museum of Art
Beyond the Mundane: William Carlos Williams and John Heath-Stubbs
C.S. Lewis’s Nerdy Poetry: The Country of the Blind
G.K. Chesterton and Christian Whimsy
Christianity-and-Water with C.S. Lewis
Engaging Existentialism with Sartre
The Empty Tomb and Charleton Heston
Christian Resentment and the Good News of Martyrdom
Great Thinkers and Produce Theft: Augustine and Rousseau
The Gospel in a Postmodern World
– the Gospel in a postmodern world
– Relative Truth
– Reformation Day
– The Authentic Self
– Questioning Authority
– The History of Power
– Shall We Suffer?
– Discipleship in a Postmodern World
Methodist Split
– West Ohio UMC Disaffiliation Materials
– Going Global
– United No More
Christian Life
The Historic Challenge of Christian Parenting
Equipping Congregations for Theological Conversations
Sanctify this Work: George Herbert’s The Altar
Aquinas’s Prayer Before Study
Creeds: Underrated, Under-loved, and Surprisingly Helpful
Fake Quotes from Famous Saints
A Monk for a New Year’s Mentor
Reading the Bible in Latin is Cool
Insights from Old Sermons
Charles Finney-Church Doesn’t Have to be Cool
Hymns
– Hymns with History
– That OLD Church Music: Psalms
– Come, Holy Spirit by Ambrose (Modernized)
– An Odd Mix of Joy and Sorrow: Christ Jesus Lay in Death’s Strong Bands
Moving from Eastern Orthodoxy
– Still Orthodox, but Less Eastern
– The Desert Fathers and Works Righteousness? Say it ain’t so!
– God in the Mountains: Moving from Bulgakov to Machen
– Keep: Deep Tradition
Classic Theology 