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Pastors Riley and Gillespie discuss Soren Kierkegaard’s “Preparation for Christianity,” where the Dane criticizes the church for offering people a Christ strictly in his ascended and victorious state and neglecting Jesus in his humiliation and in his human and highly controversial form. Our Text: Preparation for a Christian Life [on Matthew 11:28] (https://www.ccel.org/ccel/kierkegaard/selections/files/preparation.htm), Conclusion: “The Moral” Show Notes:  Soren Kierkegaard Taylor Swift breaks up again Existentialism KimKierkegaardashian (@KimKierkegaard) Who wrote with standing desks? Tesla Science Center Hegel’s Dialectics Flannery O’Connor stories To Kill a Mockingbird  Superman Jesus on the Cross Original Sin (definition) — Questions? Comments? Show Ideas? Send them to us at BannedBooks@1517legacy.com. Please subscribe, rate, and review the show in Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/banned-books-podcast/id1370993639?mt=2. And as always, don't forget Gillespie's coffee for your caffein

Riley and Gillespie continue to talk about Athanasius’ , “On The Incarnation”, but this week they get into the historical, bodily resurrection of Jesus, and why Jesus’ resurrection upends our search for self-discovery and meaning. Our Text:  Athanasius’ On the Incarnation (https://www.ccel.org/ccel/athanasius/incarnation), para. 29 Show Notes:  Dr. Eric Berne - Transactional Games Thích Quảng Đức (https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-burning-monk-1963/) The Truth behind Christian Rock (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TsL0DO-c1E) Treasure of Sierra Madres - Humphrey Bogart African Queen Justified Luther Peaky Blinders Firefly Bosch Elmore Leonard High Noon — Questions? Comments? Show Ideas? Send them to us at BannedBooks@1517legacy.com. Please subscribe, rate, and review the show in Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/banned-books-podcast/id1370993639?mt=2. And as always, don't forget Gillespie's coffee for your caffeinated needs and especially the 1517 Reformation Roast. We’re proud to be p

Riley and Gillespie talk about Athanasius’ apology in his writing, “On The Incarnation”, for the historical, bodily death of Jesus, and why Jesus’ death and resurrection is the end of religion.   Our Text:  Athanasius’ On the Incarnation (https://www.ccel.org/ccel/athanasius/incarnation), para. 24.    Show Notes: Thor - Ragnarok More Than a Carpenter by Josh D. McDowell Apologetics - Thinking Fellows Gilgamesh Epic Alexamenos graffito (Roman catacomb painting) The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky Rowan Atkinson - The Wedding at Cana Pogo (comic strip) History of Crucifixion — Questions? Comments? Show Ideas? Send them to us at BannedBooks@1517legacy.com. Please subscribe, rate, and review the show in Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/banned-books-podcast/id1370993639?mt=2. And as always, don't forget Gillespie's coffee for your caffeinated needs and especially the 1517 Reformation Roast. We’re proud to be part of 1517 Podcasts, a network of shows dedicated to delivering Christ-cent

Theological Inception, episode 3 - Riley and Gillespie continue to talk about C.S. Lewis talking about Athanasius talking about Jesus, and offer lots of explanations for what they said in episode 2. Our Text:  Introduction to Athanasius’ On the Incarnation (http://silouanthompson.net/library/early-church/on-the-incarnation/introduction/) Show Notes: Inception (2010) Highlander - “There can be only one…” C.S. Lewis - The Last Battle “I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!” The TARDIS Hermann Sasse Christianity and Islam - Thinking Fellows Who Wrote the Book of Mormon? “Simul iustus et peccator”—"Simultaneously righteous and sinner" by Donavon Riley (1517 Blog) High Noon (1952) Jiru Dreams of Sushi (2011) — Questions? Comments? Show Ideas? Send them to us at BannedBooks@1517legacy.com. Please subscribe, rate, and review the show in Apple Podcasts: https://itunes

Theological Inception, episode 2 - Riley and Gillespie continue to talk about C.S. Lewis talking about Athanasius talking about Jesus, but there’s no tub of water to fall back into at the end of this podcast. Our Text:  Introduction to Athanasius’ On the Incarnation (http://silouanthompson.net/library/early-church/on-the-incarnation/introduction/) Show Notes: CS Lewis - Thinking Fellows Podcast Preaching and the Sacrament - Herman Sasse (We Confess) Ravel - Bolero Bunyan- Pilgrim’s Progress Super Why Imperial March (Major Key) Dante - Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso 40 Minutes In the Old Testament  - Leviticus and the Sacrificial System (Episode 108ff) A Shropshire Lad.  1896., XL. Into my heart on air that kills INTO my heart on air that kills   From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills,  What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content,   I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went  And cannot come again. (A. E. Housman, 1859–1936) First Th

Theological Inception, episode 1 - Riley and Gillespie talk about C.S. Lewis talking about Athanasius talking about Jesus. Our Text: Introduction to Athanasius’ On the Incarnation (http://silouanthompson.net/library/early-church/on-the-incarnation/introduction/) Show Notes: CS Lewis - Thinking Fellows Podcast Athanasius Memes Kazoh Kitamori Sebastian Junger - Tribe Winchester Mystery House — Questions? Comments? Show Ideas? Send them to us at BannedBooks@1517legacy.com. Please subscribe, rate, and review the show in Apple Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/banned-books-podcast/id1370993639?mt=2. And as always, don't forget Gillespie's coffee for your caffeinated needs and especially the 1517 Reformation Roast. We’re proud to be part of 1517 Podcasts, a network of shows dedicated to delivering Christ-centered content through weekly, monthly, and seasonal audio platforms. Our podcasts cover a multitude of content, from Christian doctrine, apologetics, cultural engagement, and powerful preaching. Fi