1. With this collar on, my superpower is just unbridled preaching! Pastors Gillespie and Riley read a letter from John Huss to John Barbatus about the biblical teaching on who can (and cannot) preach.
  2. Due to a listener request, Caleb and Dr. Keith dive into the Theology of the Cross via Forde's On Being a Theologian of the Cross.
  3. The Fellows approach the latest set of listener questions. This time, we have questions about Lutheran history, baptism, and apostasy.
  4. The Fellows bring Dr. Dan Dean to discuss the interplay between philosophy and theology.
  5. According to the Kübler-Ross model, starting your own church is just one of the five stages of divorce. Pastors Riley and Gillespie jump back into Robert Capon's "The Astonished Heart," to discuss Henry VIII, Catholic elasticity, and mini-Christendoms.
  6. I Guess Reformation Theology and Dubstep Never Dies. Pastors Riley and Gillespie jump back into Robert Capon's "The Astonished Heart," to discuss Martin Luther, the Reformation, and what happens when justification by faith alone busts loose in Christendom.
  7. Rounding up all the Christendom in the world and launching it into space so it cannot ever hurt us again. Pastors Riley and Gillespie continue to discuss Soren Kierkegaard’s “Preparation for Christianity,” where the Dane criticizes the church for making sin to be of little consequence and therefore making the Savior and His forgiveness of little importance.
  8. This week, The Fellows are Joined by Dr. Russell Dawn to talk about natural law.
  9. Rounding up all the Christendom in the world and launching it into space so it cannot ever hurt us again. 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.
  10. Almost every episode of the Thinking Fellows has a handfull of books linked in the show notes.
  11. As the last confession in the Book of Concord, the Formula of Concord strove to unite a Lutherans around a standard set of answers regarding doctrinal controversy.
  12. Today, the fellows dive back into apologetics. Talking about epistemology, we discuss the necessary link between historical data and theological knowledge