Ask what principle Martin Luther put at the center of his Protestant Reformation theology, and you’ll get several good answers: justification by faith alone; the primacy of scriptural authority over ecclesial authority; the theology of[…]
After His resurrection, Jesus called His eleven remaining disciples and gave them a mission: “Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of[…]
Perhaps no era of biblical interpretation is less appreciated than the Middle Ages. After all, weren’t the medievals at best just perpetuators of patristic readings, and at worst the most unbounded and fantastic of allegorists?[…]
Stream or download this episode. David Grubbs and Nathan Gilmour chat about the Stoic Epictetus’s short Enchiridion, whilst Michial Farmer gallivants about England. The Enchiridion of Epictetus
Every year in the US, more young people leave the churches in which they were raised, sometimes abandoning religious faith altogether and becoming what the pollsters call “Nones.” Even within these churches, those young folk[…]
Monastic rules are more than just rules. They are ordered ways of living, weaving the mundane and the heavenly, making worship their work and work their worship. None has been more widely and enduringly influential[…]
Nathan Gilmour talks with David Grubbs and Michial Farmer about the 1998 film “The Prince of Egypt.”
Stream or download this episode. David Grubbs talks with Jordan Poss and Todd Pedlar about Alfred Hitchcock’s film The 39 Steps.
Stream or download this episode. David Grubbs talks with Michial Farmer and Nathan Gilmour about the remaining chapters of James Cone’s 1975 book “God of the Oppressed.”
In the early 6th century, darkness was falling on the Rome’s Western Empire. Old Rome was waning, barbarians sat on the imperial throne, and smouldering tension with the Byzantine Eastern Empire threatened to explode at[…]
