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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 "Real Presence" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 394: Paulson - The Battle of Words — 48 mentions · watch from 00:02:34
  2. Ep. 377: Origen - The Church as Superior to All Things Pagan — 47 mentions · watch
  3. Ep. 388: Luther - Maundy Thursday — 45 mentions · watch from 00:00:39
  4. Ep. 426: Thielicke - The Alluring Miracle of Display — 45 mentions · watch from 00:02:46
  5. Ep. 417: Luther - A deep, evil corruption of nature that reason does not comprehend — 44 mentions · watch from 00:02:17
  6. Ep. 418: Luther - God will not deal with us except through his external Word and sacrament — 44 mentions · watch from 00:04:14
  7. Ep. 380: Anselm - Bracing the Heart Against Despair — 39 mentions · watch
  8. Ep. 416: Luther - To this office of the law, however, the New Testament immediately adds the consoling promise of grace through the gospel — 38 mentions · watch from 00:00:46
  9. Ep. 58: The Schwabach Articles, part 2 — 6 mentions · watch
  10. Ep. 343: Cyril of Jerusalem - Mystagogical Catechesis — 5 mentions · watch
  11. Ep. 295: Melanchthon - The people of God are not made by fleshly propagation and the worship of the Law — 3 mentions · watch from 00:34:40
  12. Ep. 56: The Marburg Articles — 3 mentions · watch
  13. Ep. 134: Martin Luther - Abstain from Speculating about the Nature of God — 2 mentions · watch
  14. Ep. 144: A Pastoral Debrief on Epidemic, Protests, and Riots — 2 mentions · watch
  15. Ep. 285: R.C. Sproul - The Birth of Jesus — 2 mentions · watch
  16. Ep. 306: Nagel - The Medicine of Immortality — 2 mentions · watch
  17. Ep. 310: Sasse - The Theologia Crucis belongs to the Western Church — 2 mentions · watch from 01:10:40
  18. Ep. 63: Chad Bird - 'The Infant Priest Was Holy Born' — 2 mentions · watch
  19. Ep. 87: Martin Luther, The Bondage of The Will, Conclusion, part 2 — 2 mentions · watch
  20. Ep. 194a: Luther - God's will is to bless all nations... through Christ — 1 mentions · watch
  21. Ep. 195b: Luther - Mesmerized by the wizardry of the devil — 1 mentions · watch
  22. Ep. 197a: Leo the Great - All the actions of Christ reveal the presence of the twofold nature — 1 mentions
  23. Ep. 206a: Eagleton - Everyone knows that Nietzsche said 'God is dead' — 1 mentions · watch
  24. Ep. 21: Just Follow The Step by Step Instructions — 1 mentions
  25. Ep. 225: Dreher - Bear Communal Witness to Future Generations — 1 mentions · watch
  26. Ep. 249: Hamann - The Most Interesting and Radical Thinker in the Ranks of Lutheran Orthodoxy — 1 mentions · watch
  27. Ep. 255: Parables of Kafka & Nietzsche — 1 mentions · watch
  28. Ep. 281: The Torah Anticipates Lawbreaking — 1 mentions · watch
  29. Ep. 3: Part 3: 'Piss Off, Athanasian Ghost!' — 1 mentions
  30. Ep. 30: If there's one thing a theologian of glory doesn't understand, it's the cross, part 2 — 1 mentions
  31. Ep. 313: Two Sermons on the Bound Will — 1 mentions · watch
  32. Ep. 329: Venerable Bede - On the Song of Songs — 1 mentions · watch
  33. Ep. 332: Norman Nagel - The Lord has more than one Elijah — 1 mentions · watch
  34. Ep. 34: Turning the Metaphorical Gun on Ourself — 1 mentions
  35. Ep. 340: St. John Chrysostom - Homily on the Gospel of St. John Chapter Six — 1 mentions · watch
  36. Ep. 344: Ambrose - The mystical feast of the altar of the Lord — 1 mentions · watch
  37. Ep. 362: Olson - Putting Second Things Second — 1 mentions · watch
  38. Ep. 386: Pastoral Debrief with a bit of Flacius — 1 mentions · watch from 00:00:01
  39. Ep. 387: Flacius - Adiaphora and Tyranny — 1 mentions · watch from 02:58:01
  40. Ep. 423: Graff - Rationalism's war on everything 'magical.' — 1 mentions · watch from 01:34:40