180: Whitford - The Church and State Have Existed in An Often Unhealthy Tension

11/04/20 • 115 min

It’s The Most Important Election of Our Lives, Until The Next Election In this special election episode, Gillespie and Riley read David Whitford’s book, "Tyranny and Resistance," and discuss church, state, and the two kingdoms doctrine.

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Tyranny and Resistance: The Magdeburg Confession and the Lutheran Tradition https://amzn.to/34Pvem8

David Whitford, Ph.D. (bio) - https://www.baylor.edu/religion/index.php?id=933200

Two Who Survived; Keeping Hope Alive While Surviving the Holocaust https://amzn.to/3oPHAmb

Fourth Industrial Revolution https://www.weforum.org/focus/fourth-industrial-revolution

“President Harrison provides a Lutheran view of church and state” https://blogs.lcms.org/2016/president-harrison-provides-a-lutheran-view-of-church-and-state

Freedom of the Christian https://shop.1517.org/products/the-freedom-of-the-christian?variant=32812568870997

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SHOW NOTES:

Tyranny and Resistance: The Magdeburg Confession and the Lutheran Tradition https://amzn.to/34Pvem8

David Whitford, Ph.D. (bio) - https://www.baylor.edu/religion/index.php?id=933200

Two Who Survived; Keeping Hope Alive While Surviving the Holocaust https://amzn.to/3oPHAmb

Fourth Industrial Revolution https://www.weforum.org/focus/fourth-industrial-revolution

“President Harrison provides a Lutheran view of church and state” https://blogs.lcms.org/2016/president-harrison-provides-a-lutheran-view-of-church-and-state

Freedom of the Christian https://shop.1517.org/products/the-freedom-of-the-christian?variant=32812568870997

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177: Clement of Alexandria - True martyrdom is the knowledge of the only true God

Stop Showing Off and Get Back in Line... In part two of our reading of Clement of Alexandria’s, The Praises of Martyrdom Those Who Offered Themselves for Martyrdom Reproved, we discuss when martyrdom isn’t martyrdom and why the topic is more relevant today than ever.

SHOW NOTES:

CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA (c. 150-c. 215) from The Miscellanies (Stromata) The Praises of Martyrdom Those Who Offered Themselves for Martyrdom Reproved https://ethicsofsuicide.lib.utah.edu/selections/clement-alexandria/

Whether One May Flee From A Deadly Plague - Luther https://blogs.lcms.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Plague-blogLW.pdf

Voice of the Martyrs https://www.persecution.com

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178: Girolamo Savaronola - Do penance, Do it now!

The Pirates of Penance, part 1. In this episode, we look at pre-Reformation preaching. Girolamo Savaronola’s sermon on penance is read and discussed. What is penance, what effect did the sacrament of penance have on church and society, and what effect does it have on us at present?

SHOW NOTES:

“PENITENZA, PENITENZA...!” http://www.elfinspell.com/ChurchHistory/Petry-NoUncertainSound/GirolamoSavonarola-59.html

Girolamo Savonarola (bio) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girolamo_Savonarola

Attack on Christianity - Kierkegaard https://archive.org/details/kierkegaardsatta00kier

Judge for Yourself and for Self-Examination - Kierkegaard https://archive.org/details/forselfexaminati0000kier

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