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Banned Books

Banned Books Podcast

With Donavon Riley & Christopher Gillespie
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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 seek 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. Some were faithful to the end, and are safe in Jesus' death. Many lost their way and ended up expressing the biggest bad news of all, that we must stop sinning if we want God to like us.

But, we all struggle with fear of being last, lost, least, littlest, and dead, and so we are here to encourage, challenge, provoke, and maybe even offend you by introducing you to theologians who at one time or another were banned by their church, declared dangerous, or simply vilified for daring to confess that Christ alone is the way, truth, and life. They dare to be called fools for Christ's sake even when their own church throws ever larger stumbling blocks in front of them. This is the Banned Books podcast. Welcome rebel children, holy mischief makers, and fools for Christ. This podcast is for you.

Your Hosts

Donavon Riley
Host
Husband, father, and pastor. Host of Banned Books and Warrior Priest. Author of Crucifying Religion and The Withertongue Emails. He has written hundreds of articles, teaches mixed martial arts, and considers himself a story-teller and friend of trees.
Christopher Gillespie
Host
Husband, father, Lutheran pastor, and media producer (gillespie.media). A coffee roaster (gillespie.coffee) who produces content for 1517, Higher Things, Doxology, CPH Music, and Concordia Theological Seminary.

Reading List

Where "Robert Farrar Capon" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 8: Who are you? I'm Batma... I'm Constantine. — 34 mentions
  2. Ep. 14: Wait, no, stop! - part 2 — 18 mentions · watch from 00:00:55
  3. Ep. 9: I Guess Reformation Theology and Dubstep Never Dies — 17 mentions
  4. Ep. 10: According to the Kübler-Ross model, starting your own church is just one of the five stages of divorce. — 14 mentions
  5. Ep. 11: Pump the moralistic, therapeutic, deism brakes, American Christianity. — 14 mentions
  6. Ep. 203: Robert Farrar Capon - A Free Gift Already Given, Without Condition, To Everybody — 14 mentions · watch from 00:00:44
  7. Ep. 13: Wait, no, stop! - part 1 — 13 mentions
  8. Ep. 202a: Robert Farrar Capon - The Mystery and Guilt pt. 1 — 12 mentions · watch
  9. Ep. 70: Robert Capon - The Mystery of Christ, and why we don't get it... pt. 2 — 12 mentions · watch from 00:00:23
  10. Ep. 12: We're not going to walk this one off. — 11 mentions
  11. Ep. 202b: Robert Farrar Capon - Be Authentic and Authoritative Proclaimers of the Gospel — 6 mentions · watch
  12. Ep. 120: Friedrich Nietzsche, Progress is Merely a Modern Idea — 4 mentions · watch from 00:16:11
  13. Ep. 413: Debrief on the Bondage of the Will — 4 mentions · watch from 01:55:42
  14. Ep. 7: Part 2 - Rounding up all the Christendom in the world and launching it into space so it cannot ever hurt us again — 4 mentions
  15. Ep. 191a: Solzhenitsyn - Things have almost reached rock bottom — 3 mentions · watch
  16. Ep. 26: Let out the Viking, but keep him on the chain… — 3 mentions
  17. Ep. 37: Christmas: the Perfect Time of Year for a Theologian of the Cross — Luther's Christmas Book — 3 mentions
  18. Ep. 370: Capon - Proclaiming the Gospel against the Wisdom of the World — 3 mentions · watch from 00:54:17
  19. Ep. 57: The Schwabach Articles, part 1 — 3 mentions · watch from 00:03:19
  20. Ep. 69: Donavon Riley - Blatant Self-Promotion of 'Crucifying Religion' — 3 mentions · watch from 00:11:35
  21. Ep. 94: Martin Luther, 'God Preached, God Hidden; God's Will Revealed, God's Will Secret' from 'The Bondage of The Will' — 3 mentions · watch from 00:06:41
  22. Ep. 16: No, boys. There's two 'O's in Goose. — 2 mentions
  23. Ep. 205a: Scott Keith - Debrief on Two Kingdoms, Social Media, and Local Vocation — 2 mentions · watch
  24. Ep. 206a: Eagleton - Everyone knows that Nietzsche said 'God is dead' — 2 mentions · watch
  25. Ep. 206b: Eagleton - The figure of the tortured and executed Jesus is the overthrowing of the Satanic image of God — 2 mentions · watch
  26. Ep. 30: If there's one thing a theologian of glory doesn't understand, it's the cross, part 2 — 2 mentions
  27. Ep. 38: The Brutal, Humiliating, Joyous Christmas Gospel - Luther's Christmas Book — 2 mentions
  28. Ep. 42: William Barclay - Are All People Saved? — 2 mentions
  29. Ep. 50: Interview with David Zahl - 'Seculosity' — 2 mentions
  30. Ep. 72: C.S. Lewis - The Incarnation from 'The Joyful Christian' — 2 mentions · watch from 00:38:21
  31. Ep. 74: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - The Interpreter's House — 2 mentions · watch from 00:01:23
  32. Ep. 76: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - The Shadow of Death — 2 mentions · watch from 00:40:52
  33. Ep. 77: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - Vanity Fair — 2 mentions · watch from 00:39:01
  34. Ep. 83: Norman E. Nagel, On the Lord's Supper from 'The Spirit's Gifts in the Confessions and in Corinth' — 2 mentions · watch from 00:13:38
  35. Ep. 103: Dietrich Bonhoeffer, 'Cheap Grace vs. Costly Grace' pt. 2 — 1 mentions · watch from 00:36:28
  36. Ep. 111: Thomas Cranmer, The Collect - Prayer for the Church — 1 mentions · watch from 00:32:06
  37. Ep. 116: Erasmus, The Danger in Assertions — 1 mentions · watch from 00:01:59
  38. Ep. 158: John MacArthur - God has not granted civic rulers authority over the doctrine, practice, or polity of the church — 1 mentions · watch
  39. Ep. 162: Timothy Keller - Liberals' insistence that religious views stay out of public discourse is hypocritical — 1 mentions
  40. Ep. 17: I feel the need… the need for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ! — 1 mentions