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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 "Imputation" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 19: One sermon, maximum effort — 19 mentions
  2. Ep. 358: Melanchthon - Commentary on Romans 3:21ff — 13 mentions · watch from 00:35:55
  3. Ep. 119: Erasmus, Old Testaments Passages Implying Free Choice — 9 mentions · watch
  4. Ep. 339: Rosenbladt - Christ Died for the Sins of Christians Too — 7 mentions · watch
  5. Ep. 57: The Schwabach Articles, part 1 — 5 mentions · watch
  6. Ep. 20: One sermon, two men, maximum effort — 4 mentions
  7. Ep. 367: Nestigen - Justification, Vocation, and Location in Luther's Reformation pt. 2 — 4 mentions · watch
  8. Ep. 129: Martin Luther - The Difference between Christian Righteousness and All Others Types of Righteousness — 3 mentions · watch
  9. Ep. 9: I Guess Reformation Theology and Dubstep Never Dies — 3 mentions
  10. Ep. 131: Martin Luther - You Cannot Be Saved Unless You Want Nothing To Do with the Law — 2 mentions · watch
  11. Ep. 132: Martin Luther - The Gospel Teaches Nothing But The Free Forgiveness of Sins — 2 mentions · watch from 00:05:26
  12. Ep. 138: Martin Luther - We Will Not Permit Ourselves to Be Shoved or Budged Away From Justification — 2 mentions · watch
  13. Ep. 178: Girolamo Savaronola - Do penance, Do it now! — 2 mentions · watch
  14. Ep. 315: Girard - The End of Scapegoating — 2 mentions · watch from 01:34:00
  15. Ep. 395: Questions Answered — 2 mentions · watch from 00:29:57
  16. Ep. 434: Guite - The Music of Creation — 2 mentions · watch from 01:06:56
  17. Ep. 55: Ulrich Zwingli - 67 Theses Defending Reform — 2 mentions · watch
  18. Ep. 74: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - The Interpreter's House — 2 mentions · watch
  19. Ep. 128: Interlude, Rumination, and Pastoral Debrief on Pandemics, Maturity, and Vocation — 1 mentions · watch
  20. Ep. 149: An Apologetic Primer on Jehovah's Witnesses — 1 mentions · watch
  21. Ep. 165: Timothy Keller - Postmodernism: Only powerlessness and oppression brings moral high ground and true knowledge — 1 mentions
  22. Ep. 181: Chesterton - Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God — 1 mentions · watch
  23. Ep. 201a: Weil - It is the innocent victim who can feel hell — 1 mentions · watch
  24. Ep. 28: I Want What I Want When I Want It... Again! — 1 mentions
  25. Ep. 304: Anselm of Canterbury - On Free Will — 1 mentions · watch
  26. Ep. 311: Forde - Proclamation is the Present Tense of the Gospel — 1 mentions · watch
  27. Ep. 344: Ambrose - The mystical feast of the altar of the Lord — 1 mentions · watch
  28. Ep. 351: Gregory of Nyssa - The Life of Moses — 1 mentions · watch
  29. Ep. 353: Bede the Venerable - Transfiguration Homily for Lent — 1 mentions · watch
  30. Ep. 376: Origen - Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans — 1 mentions · watch from 02:15:53
  31. Ep. 380: Anselm - Bracing the Heart Against Despair — 1 mentions · watch from 01:41:25
  32. Ep. 386: Pastoral Debrief with a bit of Flacius — 1 mentions · watch from 00:00:01
  33. Ep. 396: Paulson - God's Law, God's Gospel — 1 mentions · watch from 00:47:47
  34. Ep. 408: Nestigen - Luther and Erasmus on the Bondage of the Will — 1 mentions · watch from 00:00:02
  35. Ep. 41: Augustine - Does Baptism Make Men New? — 1 mentions
  36. Ep. 42: William Barclay - Are All People Saved? — 1 mentions
  37. Ep. 59: John Bunyan - The Doctrine of Law & Grace Unfolded — 1 mentions · watch
  38. Ep. 62: Thomas O. Chisholm - 'Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father' — 1 mentions · watch
  39. Ep. 77: John Bunyan, 'The Pilgrim's Progress' - Vanity Fair — 1 mentions · watch
  40. Ep. 88: Martin Luther, The Two Kingdoms from 'The Bondage of the Will' — 1 mentions · watch