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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 "Patristics and the Early Church" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 421: Chesterton - Mankind would have a much worse time if there were no such thing as Christmas or Christmas dinners — 69 mentions · watch from 00:00:51
  2. Ep. 405: Barfield - Meaning and Myth — 56 mentions · watch from 00:01:19
  3. Ep. 383: Tolkien - The 'protestant' search backwards for 'simplicity' and directness ... is mistaken and indeed vain — 55 mentions · watch from 00:02:04
  4. Ep. 379: Chrysostom - On Wealth and Poverty — 51 mentions · watch
  5. Ep. 380: Anselm - Bracing the Heart Against Despair — 47 mentions · watch
  6. Ep. 398: Paulson - A Preacher like Jonah — 45 mentions · watch from 00:06:47
  7. Ep. 344: Ambrose - The mystical feast of the altar of the Lord — 4 mentions · watch
  8. Ep. 350: Aelfric and Basil - The Anglo-Saxon Hexameron — 4 mentions · watch
  9. Ep. 352: Gregory of Nazianzus - Letter 58 To Basil — 4 mentions · watch
  10. Ep. 338: Kleinig - Rituals and the Enactment of the Gospel — 3 mentions · watch
  11. Ep. 351: Gregory of Nyssa - The Life of Moses — 3 mentions · watch
  12. Ep. 376: Origen - Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans — 3 mentions · watch from 00:38:33
  13. Ep. 18: Now... okay, so, angels as people, tell me about that. Walk me through it. — 2 mentions
  14. Ep. 185: The Enlightenment - The Monolithic Nature of the Church Has Come to an End — 2 mentions · watch
  15. Ep. 101: Augustine, 'Why Celebrate Christmas?' — 1 mentions · watch
  16. Ep. 154: Augustine - Love for one's enemies and a benevolent severity — 1 mentions · watch
  17. Ep. 197a: Leo the Great - All the actions of Christ reveal the presence of the twofold nature — 1 mentions
  18. Ep. 278: Nestorius - Against the Theotokos — 1 mentions · watch
  19. Ep. 305: Cyprian - The Baptismal Controversy — 1 mentions · watch
  20. Ep. 306: Nagel - The Medicine of Immortality — 1 mentions · watch
  21. Ep. 329: Venerable Bede - On the Song of Songs — 1 mentions · watch
  22. Ep. 353: Bede the Venerable - Transfiguration Homily for Lent — 1 mentions · watch
  23. Ep. 360: Olson - Politics, Liturgics, and Integritas Sacramenti — 1 mentions · watch
  24. Ep. 367: Nestigen - Justification, Vocation, and Location in Luther's Reformation pt. 2 — 1 mentions · watch
  25. Ep. 373: Luther - You have the Mystery of God — 1 mentions · watch from 01:42:06
  26. Ep. 39: The Obstinate Toy Soldiers - C.S. Lewis — 1 mentions
  27. Ep. 390: Concerning the Eternal Predestination and Election of God — 1 mentions · watch from 00:00:01
  28. Ep. 392: Keller - What Is the Church? — 1 mentions · watch from 00:00:01
  29. Ep. 4: Part 1: Two Natures and Maximum Effort — 1 mentions
  30. Ep. 414: Luther - God is extravagantly rich in His grace — 1 mentions · watch from 00:00:02
  31. Ep. 423: Graff - Rationalism's war on everything 'magical.' — 1 mentions · watch from 00:50:06
  32. Ep. 435: Andersen - Ritual as the Whole Way of Life — 1 mentions · watch from 02:29:40
  33. Ep. 437: John of Damascus - Apologia Against Those Who Decry Holy Images — 1 mentions · watch from 00:53:41
  34. Ep. 57: The Schwabach Articles, part 1 — 1 mentions · watch
  35. Ep. 64: John of Damascus - Critique of Islam — 1 mentions · watch