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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 "Sacramental Theology" appears across the catalog

  1. Ep. 343: Cyril of Jerusalem - Mystagogical Catechesis — 42 mentions · watch
  2. Ep. 58: The Schwabach Articles, part 2 — 34 mentions · watch
  3. Ep. 306: Nagel - The Medicine of Immortality — 32 mentions · watch
  4. Ep. 322: An Early Lutheran Ordination — 28 mentions · watch
  5. Ep. 360: Olson - Politics, Liturgics, and Integritas Sacramenti — 28 mentions · watch
  6. Ep. 362: Olson - Putting Second Things Second — 27 mentions · watch
  7. Ep. 344: Ambrose - The mystical feast of the altar of the Lord — 26 mentions · watch
  8. Ep. 2: Part 2: 'Piss Off, Athanasian Ghost!' — 24 mentions
  9. Ep. 178: Girolamo Savaronola - Do penance, Do it now! — 23 mentions · watch
  10. Ep. 381: Kleinig - The Things That Make a Theologian — 23 mentions · watch from 00:11:18
  11. Ep. 423: Graff - Rationalism's war on everything 'magical.' — 23 mentions · watch from 00:37:04
  12. Ep. 341: St. John Cassian - The Spirit of Acedia — 21 mentions · watch
  13. Ep. 67: John of Damascus - 'An argument directed against the Nestorians' — 21 mentions · watch
  14. Ep. 107: Tim Townsend, Mission to Nuremberg, part 2 — 20 mentions · watch
  15. Ep. 108: Tim Townsend, Mission to Nuremberg, part 3 — 20 mentions · watch
  16. Ep. 111: Thomas Cranmer, The Collect - Prayer for the Church — 20 mentions · watch
  17. Ep. 387: Flacius - Adiaphora and Tyranny — 20 mentions · watch from 00:25:37
  18. Ep. 399: More Questions Answered - Myth and Taylor Swift — 19 mentions · watch from 00:01:39
  19. Ep. 56: The Marburg Articles — 19 mentions · watch
  20. Ep. 361: Olson - The Duty of Resistance — 18 mentions · watch
  21. Ep. 433: Von Schenk - The Crucifixion — 18 mentions · watch from 00:42:51
  22. Ep. 52: Thomas Aquinas on Baptism — 18 mentions · watch
  23. Ep. 347: Bornkamm - The God of the Old Testament — 17 mentions · watch
  24. Ep. 214: Whitford - Tyranny and Resistance — 16 mentions · watch
  25. Ep. 255: Parables of Kafka & Nietzsche — 16 mentions · watch
  26. Ep. 310: Sasse - The Theologia Crucis belongs to the Western Church — 16 mentions · watch
  27. Ep. 363: Olson - Liturgy as 'Action' — 16 mentions · watch
  28. Ep. 394: Paulson - The Battle of Words — 16 mentions · watch from 00:01:14
  29. Ep. 407: Paulson - The free will is demonstrably not Jesus Christ — 16 mentions · watch from 00:02:08
  30. Ep. 82: Norman E. Nagel, 'The Spirit's Gifts in the Confessions and in Corinth' — 16 mentions · watch
  31. Ep. 410: Forde - Better not to let the 'common herd' in on such lofty and dangerous academic secrets — 15 mentions · watch from 00:06:27
  32. Ep. 373: Luther - You have the Mystery of God — 14 mentions · watch from 00:57:55
  33. Ep. 396: Paulson - God's Law, God's Gospel — 14 mentions · watch from 00:00:55
  34. Ep. 83: Norman E. Nagel, On the Lord's Supper from 'The Spirit's Gifts in the Confessions and in Corinth' — 14 mentions · watch
  35. Ep. 313: Two Sermons on the Bound Will — 13 mentions · watch
  36. Ep. 321: Luther - The Right and Power to Judge all Teaching and to Call, Appoint, and Dismiss Teachers — 13 mentions · watch
  37. Ep. 351: Gregory of Nyssa - The Life of Moses — 13 mentions · watch
  38. Ep. 136: Martin Luther - It''s Something Very Rare and Improper to So Suddenly Abandon the Law — 12 mentions · watch
  39. Ep. 139: Martin Luther - Christ is the Redeemer of all those under the law — 12 mentions · watch
  40. Ep. 229: Dreher - Family as Effective Resistance to Totalitarianism — 12 mentions · watch