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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 "Law and Gospel" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 413: Debrief on the Bondage of the Will — 58 mentions · watch from 00:07:47
  2. Ep. 398: Paulson - A Preacher like Jonah — 54 mentions · watch from 00:32:15
  3. Ep. 396: Paulson - God's Law, God's Gospel — 50 mentions · watch from 00:00:55
  4. Ep. 417: Luther - A deep, evil corruption of nature that reason does not comprehend — 37 mentions · watch from 00:03:28
  5. Ep. 410: Forde - Better not to let the 'common herd' in on such lofty and dangerous academic secrets — 25 mentions · watch from 00:36:29
  6. Ep. 418: Luther - God will not deal with us except through his external Word and sacrament — 23 mentions · watch from 00:01:17
  7. Ep. 364: Banned Books Q&A Episode — 22 mentions · watch from 00:06:21
  8. Ep. 416: Luther - To this office of the law, however, the New Testament immediately adds the consoling promise of grace through the gospel — 22 mentions · watch from 00:07:02
  9. Ep. 378: Giertz - The Essential Firm Kernels — 20 mentions · watch from 01:39:57
  10. Ep. 412: Forde - The gospel, and only the gospel, spells the end of the hidden God — 20 mentions · watch from 00:08:29
  11. Ep. 407: Paulson - The free will is demonstrably not Jesus Christ — 19 mentions · watch from 00:30:56
  12. Ep. 400: Paulson - The Hidden Life of Christians — 18 mentions · watch from 00:02:13
  13. Ep. 301: Nestigen - The Two Kingdoms Distinction — 14 mentions · watch from 00:14:42
  14. Ep. 95: Martin Luther, 'Erasmus' Failure to Distinguish Between Law and Gospel' from 'The Bondage of The Will' — 13 mentions · watch from 00:00:23
  15. Ep. 383: Tolkien - The 'protestant' search backwards for 'simplicity' and directness ... is mistaken and indeed vain — 11 mentions · watch from 00:39:13
  16. Ep. 312: Paulson - Preaching Categorically to Bound Wills — 8 mentions · watch from 00:18:25
  17. Ep. 402: Tolkien - Certainly there was an Eden on this very unhappy earth — 8 mentions · watch from 01:23:03
  18. Ep. 405: Barfield - Meaning and Myth — 8 mentions · watch from 00:16:08
  19. Ep. 153: Law and Gospel in Practical Application — 7 mentions · watch
  20. Ep. 381: Kleinig - The Things That Make a Theologian — 7 mentions · watch from 00:42:14
  21. Ep. 419: C.S. Lewis - All that Christianity adds to Paganism is the cure — 7 mentions · watch from 00:05:12
  22. Ep. 131: Martin Luther - You Cannot Be Saved Unless You Want Nothing To Do with the Law — 6 mentions · watch from 00:08:11
  23. Ep. 25: All this damage - and it's old Adam's fault. — 5 mentions
  24. Ep. 266: C.S. Lewis - Christianity is a religion you could not have guessed — 3 mentions · watch from 01:35:28
  25. Ep. 311: Forde - Proclamation is the Present Tense of the Gospel — 3 mentions · watch from 00:01:55
  26. Ep. 339: Rosenbladt - Christ Died for the Sins of Christians Too — 3 mentions · watch from 01:42:26
  27. Ep. 346: Irenaeus - On the Passion — 3 mentions · watch
  28. Ep. 358: Melanchthon - Commentary on Romans 3:21ff — 3 mentions · watch from 00:35:55
  29. Ep. 129: Martin Luther - The Difference between Christian Righteousness and All Others Types of Righteousness — 2 mentions · watch from 00:26:12
  30. Ep. 147: Ken Korby - Different Ministries, Different Means, One God! — 2 mentions · watch
  31. Ep. 155: Augustine - Just wars are usually defined as those that avenge injuries — 2 mentions · watch
  32. Ep. 180: Whitford - The Church and State Have Existed in An Often Unhealthy Tension — 2 mentions · watch from 01:17:27
  33. Ep. 20: One sermon, two men, maximum effort — 2 mentions
  34. Ep. 200a: Weil - Evil is License and That is Why it Is Monotonous — 2 mentions · watch
  35. Ep. 203: Robert Farrar Capon - A Free Gift Already Given, Without Condition, To Everybody — 2 mentions · watch from 00:55:25
  36. Ep. 214: Whitford - Tyranny and Resistance — 2 mentions · watch
  37. Ep. 22: I'm stepping - I'm stepping in it! What does it smell like? — 2 mentions
  38. Ep. 24: Your Theology Is Creating A Nice Little Climate of Panic — 2 mentions · watch from 00:26:32
  39. Ep. 240: Sasse - All religion, no matter how disfigured and deformed, finally refers back to an original revelation — 2 mentions · watch
  40. Ep. 241: Sasse - There is no Christian state — 2 mentions · watch