Theology Without The Bullsh*t

In this week's episode we discuss how the role of the sacraments change in Lutheran theology; namely, the eucharist.

This week's episode discusses the roots of the reformation and how the thoughts of a Catholic monk changed the direction of Christian faith forever - Martin Luther!

This weeks episode explores the concept of Atonement by looking at Anselm and Abelard.

In this episode we discuss the rational proof for God's existence by virtue of Anselm's ontological argument, and the empirical proofs offered by Thomas Aquinas.

Tonight we discuss the emergence of Scholasticism during the Middle Ages and the implications therein.

Continuing on in our exploration of Christianity, the professor and I discuss the Middle Ages.  We briefly touch on the east/west split of Christianity and the Roman Empire, Monasticism, Scholasticis…

Tonight Paul and I discuss the Pelagian Controversy. Here we address Augustine on grace, free will, and predestination.

Hey everyone! It's a special episode tonight. Paul had ministry work to take care of this week and I wanted to provide some content tonight since we took a month of while I was on vacation. Tonight I…

Hey everybody and welcome back to another new episode! This week we address the Donatist Controversy. At stake here is whether the moral qualities of a priest nullify their ability to perform the sac…

This week we cover the topic of Augustine's distinctions regarding properly ordered love versus improperly ordered love.

This week's episode goes over St. Augustine's privation theory of evil. After being influenced by Neo-Platonism, Augustine measures evil as a lack of goodness because "being" in-and-of-itself entails…

In this week's episode we explore the life of Saint Augustine and his conversion to Christianity as outlined in his autobiography. Next week we will be going over his theological contributions.

Today we unpack the distinctions that were debated between the Alexandrian Christians of Egypt and the Antiochene Christians of Syria; namely, in what ways was Jesus fully human.  The conversation ge…

This week's episode is a little dense. We unpack the debate between Athanasius and Arius which was settled in the Nicene Creed.  While they both agree that the divine logos from John's prologue was i…

This week's episode picks up where we left off last week in the 2nd century. We go over the Gnostic understanding of who Christ was characterized by Docetism. We then contrast that understanding by o…

**Sorry for a few connectivity issues in the first 20 minutes. I was recording from my camper and the WiFi is less than ideal up there**

In this week's episode we talk about the 2nd century Christian,…

This week we go over Paul's letters and the Gospels. We break down the two-source theory and talk about how we can come up with approximate dates for when these items were written.

Apologies for the audio quality of this week's episode. Still working out some technical details. In this week's episode we explore the ancient world. We go over Hellenism, Judaism, and the cultural …

This week's episode is dedicated to a great theologian, Schubert Ogden. Professor Ogden, one of Paul's mentors, passed away last week after a battle with cancer.  We take his definition of theology a…

On this week's episode, we introduce ourselves and talk about why we are doing the podcast. We go over what we mean by Theology Without The Bullsh*t and what you can expect from this podcast moving f…