TOPIC INDEXPhilosophy (24)

  1. 155: Augustine - Just wars are usually defined as those that avenge injuries

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    07/31/20
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    Fire for Effect. In this episode, we wrap up our discussion of Augustine on just war.

  2. 154: Augustine - Love for one's enemies and a benevolent severity

    book
    07/23/20
    6 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    War, What Is It Good For? In this episode, Augustine’s theology of war is introduced.

  3. 153: Law and Gospel in Practical Application

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    07/16/20
    5 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    Is This The Real Life... In this double-length episode, Riley and Gillespie ask what are the consequences for not grounding our preaching, teaching, prayer, and worship in concrete reality as revealed by God’s Word of law and Gospel?

  4. 152: Justin Holcomb - Human Trafficking in God’s World

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    07/04/20
    5 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    Pure Evil Hidden in Plain Sight. Human trafficking, sexual abuse, and how the Church can engage with and fight against Satanic evil.

  5. 151: Tearing Down Statues and Cancelling History

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    07/02/20
    3 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    It’s Not Like You Can Change History Just Because Your Feelings Are Hurt... Right? Riley and Gillespie discuss history, feelings, and canceling the cancelers with God’s Word, all this in preparation for part two on human trafficking.

  6. 123: Friedrich Nietzsche, A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god

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    03/22/20
    3 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    I’m Not Really A Joiner. Gillespie and Riley finish their reading and discussion of Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Antichrist.” This episode, state religion, Christian civil religion, and being your own god.

  7. 122: Friedrich Nietzsche, Neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality

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    03/19/20
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    Welcome to A Church of Pure Imagination. Gillespie and Riley continue to read and discuss Friedrich Nietzsche’s “Antichrist.” This episode, what happens when Christianity disconnects itself from what’s concrete and real, especially the incarnation of God.

  8. 121: Friedrich Nietzsche, Christianity is Called the Religion of Pity

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    03/14/20
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    All right, let's put a pin in this, I gotta help your pathetic faith. Gillespie and Riley continue to read and discuss Friedrich Nietzsche's "Antichrist." How does the Christian church promote weak piety and a denial of life? How does Christianity as a religion of pity weaken believers and society? What happens to Christianity when it mixes philosophy and theology together?

  9. 120: Friedrich Nietzsche, Progress is Merely a Modern Idea

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    03/11/20
    4 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    That was really traumatizing! I quit! I'm out! Gillespie and Riley read and discuss Friedrich Nietzsche's "Antichrist." This episode, we talk about how Nietzsche’s critique of Christianity can help us check our presuppositions about what Christianity is and is not today. 

  10. "On Being a Theologian of the Cross" by Gerhard Forde, Part IV: “God’s Work in Us: The Righteousness of Faith” pt. 2

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    11/21/18
    2 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    Don't Like That We're Righteous Apart From Works? We're Not Done Yet. Continuing their conversation from episode #31, Gillespie and Riley follow Gerhard Forde, and with him examine Luther's Heidelberg Disputation. This week, Aristotle, righteousness, and whose work is worth calling "good."

  11. Soren Kierkegaard's "Preparation for a Christian Life [on Matthew 11:28]" pt. 2

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    05/23/18
    2 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    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.

  12. Soren Kierkegaard's "Preparation for a Christian Life [on Matthew 11:28]"

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    05/16/18
    3 mins
    By Christopher Gillespie Donavon Riley
    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.