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In this episode, Caleb is joined by Shawn Wilhite (PhD, Durham University) associate professor of New Testament at California Baptist University and Coleman Ford (PhD, Southern Seminary)  assistant professor of humanities at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary to discuss their new book,  Ancient Wisdom for the Care of Souls: Learning the Art of Pastoral Ministry from the Church Fathers. Together they discuss what a scriptural vision of ministry is, how patristic voices help inform this vision, and how pastors today can cultivate this pastoral vision in their churches. Ancient Wisdom for the Care of Souls: Learning the Art of Pastoral Ministry from the Church Fathers by Shawn Wilhite and Coleman Ford The Book of Pastoral Rule: St. Gregory the Great The Contemplative Pastor: Returning to the Art of Spiritual Direction by Eugene Peterson Confessions by Augustine On God and Christ: The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius by Gregory of Nazianzus The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God by Robert Louis Wilken

The Blasters & Blades Podcast We've got a deep discussion panel for you where we talk about the idea of religions in speculative fiction. We've got Chloe Garner, Matthew Bowman, Melissa McShane and Teri Kay Jobe on to talk nerdy with us. We talked about the intersection of Earth religions and fantasy ones. We talked about the root of why religions matter to people, and thus the characters that populate the worlds we love. This was a fun chat, go check it out! Lend us your eyes and ears, you won't be sorry!! Today's Host: JR Handley (Author) (Grunt) We work for free, so if you wanna throw a few pennies our way there is a linked Buy Me A Coffee site where you can do so. Just mention the podcast in the comments when you donate, and I'll keep the sacred bean water boiling! Support the Show: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/AuthorJRHandley Our LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/blastersandbladespodcast Today's Sponsor Slay Bells Ring by Bayonet Books: https://www.amazon.com/Slay-Bells-Ring-Operation-Anthology-ebook/dp/B0BJ9RHC7H/ Coffee Brand Coffee Affiliate Support the Show: https://coffeebrandcoffee.com/?ref=y4GWASiVorJZDb Discount Code: PodcastGrunts Coupon Code Gets you 10% off Follow Chloe Garner on social media Chloe's Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Chloe-Garner/e/B00MD4GGLS/ Chloe's Website: https://blenderfiction.wordpress.com/ Chloe's Twitter: https://twitter.com/BlenderFiction Chloe's Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/435117423514398 Follow Matthew Bowman on social media Matthew's Royal Road: https://www.royalroad.com/profile/198607 Matthew's Website: https://novelninja.net/ Matthew's Discord: https://discord.gg/Mat3sWemf7 Follow Melissa McShane on social media Melissa's Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Melissa-McShane/author/B00TON8E1Q Melissa's Website: www.melissamcshanewrites.com Melissa's Twitter: www.twitter.com/melissamcshanewrites Melissa's Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/mcshaneminions Follow Teri Kay Jobe on social media Teri's Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/stores/Teri-Kay-Jobe/author/B0DG3TPL66 Teri's Website: https://terikjobe.com/ Teri's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/terikjobe2013 Teri's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/terikjobe/ Books we're recommending today! The Red Wall Series by Brian Jaques Ancient Greece: Everyday Life in the Birthplace of Western Civilization by Robert Garland How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilization by Thomas E. Woods Jr. The Christians as the Romans Saw Them by Robert Louis Wilken #scifishenanigans #scifishenaniganspodcast #bbp #blastersandblades #blastersandbladespodcast #podcast #scifipodcast #fantasypodcast #scifi #fantasy #books #rpg #comics #fandom #literature #comedy #veteran #army #armyranger #ranger #scififan #redshirts #scifiworld #sciencefiction #scifidaily #scificoncept #podcastersofinstagram #scificons #podcastlife #podcastsofinstagram #scifibooks #awardwinningscifi #newepisode #podcastersofinstagram #podcastaddict #podcast #scifigeek #scifibook #sfv #scifivisionaries #firesidechat #chat #panel #fireside #religionquestion #coffee #tea #coffeeortea #CoffeeBrandCoffee #ChloeGarner #MatthewBowman #MelissaMcShane #TeriKayJobe #PeacanPie #PumpkinPie #Pralines #Cookies #DerbyPie #ChocolateChipCookie #BreadPudding #RedWallSeries #PumpkinCheesecake #Cheesecake #CarrotCake #CarrotSufflate #Fudge #Caramel #Turkey #Ham #TheChristmasCanCanByStraightNoChaser #ChristmasCarols #LittleDrummerBoy #DoYouHearWhatIHear #ItsTheMostWonderfulTimeOfTheYearByAndyWilliams #IWantAHippopotamusForChristmas #TransSiberianOrchestra #TheChristiansAndThePagansByDarWilliams #DarWilliams #HotChocolate #HotChocolateWithMarshmallows #Sarsaparilla #WhippedCream #Coke #AmyGrant #BackstreetBoysChristmasAlbum #SlayBellsRingAnthology #AwesomeCon #Animism #WhiteChristmas #WhiteChristmasSong #Gloria #HarkTheHeraldsAngelsSing #JesuJoyOfMansDesiring #JesuJoyOfMansDesiringByAmyGrant #ReuReuReuTarwNefyn --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/blasters-and-blades/support

Summary of the EpisodeIn this episode of Good Distinctions, host Will Wright interviews Mike Aquilina, co-founder of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology and author of the book 'Rabbles, Riots, and Ruins: 12 Ancient Cities and How They Were Evangelized'. Aquilina discusses his interest in the Fathers of the Church and his goal of providing an imaginative entry into the ancient world through his books. He highlights the importance of friendship and conversation in the spread of Christianity in ancient cities and draws parallels to the modern world's need for genuine connection. Aquilina recommends books by Robert Louis Wilken and Rodney Stark for further exploration of the early Church and the role of cities in evangelization.Buy the Book Today - Ignatius PressRabbles, Riots, and Ruins: Twelve Ancient Cities and How They Were Evangelized - https://ignatius.com/rabbles-riots-and-ruins-rrrp/Takeaways* The early Christians spread the gospel through friendship and conversation, utilizing the roads and trade routes of the Roman Empire.* The Romans had a cosmopolitan sense and were open to other peoples, cultures, and religions, which facilitated the spread of Christianity.* The early Christians' commitment to friendship and genuine connection is a model for combating loneliness and isolation in the modern world.* Reading the writings of the Church Fathers provides a sense of connection to the roots of Christianity and the enduring nature of the Church.KeywordsMike Aquilina, St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, Fathers of the Church, ancient cities, evangelization, friendship, conversation, early Christianity, Roman EmpireThanks for listening to Good Distinctions! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.gooddistinctions.com

TESTO DELL'ARTICOLO ➜ https://www.bastabugie.it/it/articoli.php?id=3281LA COMUNIONE AI DIVORZIATI RISPOSATI E' UN'ESIGENZA DOVUTA AI TEMPI? FALSO! di Francesco AgnoliQuello che si sente dire, non di rado, anche in ambienti cattolici, è che la concessione della comunione ai divorziati risposati è un'esigenza dovuta ai tempi. Troppe sono oggi le persone divorziate risposate, per mantenere in vita vecchie regole e vecchi schemi.Si tratta con tutta evidenza di una idea debole, per la quale la verità è sottomessa all'arbitrio del numero. Fu utilizzata dai radicali al tempo del divorzio ("sono già milioni i divorzi de facto, per ignorare ancora la possibilità di un divorzio riconosciuto", si diceva già allora), e sempre dagli stessi per legalizzare l'aborto: "poiché gli aborti clandestini sono ormai la norma, tanto vale regolarizzare l'aborto tout court".Ma lo scopo di questo articolo non è quello di valutare un simile ragionamento sul piano logico; e neppure da un punto di vista teologico. Lo scopo è semplicemente capire, da un punto di vista storico, se questa posizione sia compatibile con l'insegnamento di Cristo.La domanda che vogliamo porci è allora questa: come si comporterebbe Colui che è sommamente buono e misericordioso, Gesù Cristo stesso, se venisse oggi? Cambierebbe la dottrina dell'indissolubilità matrimoniale, ritenendola inadeguata ai tempi, e irrispettosa per l'alto numero di divorziati risposati oggi esistente? Introdurrebbe eccezioni, casistiche, problematicità varie come quelle proposte dal cardinal Kasper? Renderebbe un po' più flessibile, quel laconico e lapidario comandamento che dice "Ciò che Dio congiunge, l'uomo non separi" (Mt.19,8)?Il primo punto da cui partire è senza dubbio questo: il matrimonio, nel mondo antico, pre-cristiano, è di due tipi: monogamico, o poligamico.La monogamia è presente in Grecia, presso il popolo ebraico e a Roma; in altre civiltà, invece, vige la poligamia.L'insegnamento di Cristo sulla famiglia non è dunque una novità del tutto inaudita: la monogamia, lo si ripete, era intuita presso vari popoli come l'istituto portante della società. Siamo di fronte a quello che viene chiamato di solito il "diritto naturale": anche popoli non cristiani portano nel loro cuore il suono di esigenze morali universali. Come Ippocrate aveva capito che abortire è uccidere, in un'epoca in cui l'aborto era però la norma, così i romani comprendevano bene che l'optimum, nel rapporto uomo donna, è la fedeltà e la durata del coniugio.Così in età repubblicana, cioè prima di Cristo, a Roma è previsto il fidanzamento, attraverso una cerimonia ufficiale comprendente lo scambio di un anello (messo nell'anulare, perché, secondo Aulo Gellio, esisterebbe "un nervo molto sottile, che parte dall'anulare e arriva al cuore"). Ad esso segue il matrimonio: una cerimonia solenne, contrassegnata da una sorta di comunione davanti ad un altare, su cui viene offerto a Giove un pane di farro. Inoltre vi è il sacrificio di un animale, di cui vengono lette, da un aruspice, le interiora. Una donna, sposata una sola volta, e quindi di buon auspicio, unisce le mani degli sposi, di fronte ai sacerdoti e a dei testimoni, a dimostrazione della funzione anche sociale del matrimonio. Uomini e divinità sono dunque chiamati a testimonianza di un fatto, lo si ripete, di cui è piuttosto chiara l'importanza.In verità, però, se andiamo a scavare in profondità, scopriamo che anche la monogamia romana, forse la più solida nel mondo antico, era inficiata da mille eccezioni: il maschio, per esempio, poteva andare tranquillamente con le schiave, senza che ciò costituisse uno scandalo neppure per la moglie; inoltre poteva ripudiare la moglie per una serie piuttosto abbondante di motivi. Così anche la monogamia ebraica era quasi una finzione, in quanto le scuole rabbiniche potevano ampliare a dismisura la possibilità del ripudio, permettendo così agli uomini di sposare, in successione, molte e molte donne. Non solo: anche la poligamia era piuttosto praticata.Se torniamo a Roma, in età imperiale, cioè all'epoca di Cristo, e poi nei secoli di graduale affermazione del cristianesimo, i costumi sono precipitati. Tutti gli storici sono concordi nel rilevare che la monogamia, già dissolubile, dell'età repubblicana, è in grave crisi. La durata media dei matrimoni è sempre minore; i divorzi sono sempre di più; persino la cerimonia nuziale, in perfetto accordo con la graduale diminuzione del senso del coniugio, è divenuta semplice, veloce, quasi banale. Ormai, come scrive Igino Giordani nel suo capolavoro, "Il messaggio sociale del cristianesimo", «per divorziare non occorrevano forme complicate. Come per sposare. Bastava un avviso a voce o per iscritto o per messaggio»; tutto era più semplice rispetto al passato repubblicano e il divorzio «divenne una piaga che incancrenì l'istituto del matrimonio e logorò la famiglia».Il grande Seneca, un contemporaneo di Gesù, scrive che ormai le persone «divorziano per sposarsi e si sposano per divorziare». Giovenale, nel I secolo dopo Cristo, ricorda il nome di una donna che si è sposata 8 volte in 5 anni, mentre Marziale descrive la crisi del matrimonio contemporaneo citando Telesilla, con i suoi 10 mariti. Il grande storico romano Carcopino, nel suo La vita quotidiana a Roma, ribadisce il concetto: il divorzio in età precristiana, a Roma, era raro, in età imperiale estremamente diffuso. Anche perché, come ricorda la storica Eva Cantarella, nel suo L'ambiguo malanno, alla possibilità del divorzio richiesto dal marito, con la donna di solito come vittima impotente, si era andata affiancando la possibilità che a divorziare fossero anche le donne.Dato di fatto incontestabile: all'arrivo di Cristo e nei secoli successivi nell'impero romano il matrimonio e la famiglia erano in crisi più che mai; una crisi che si riversava anche sulla società e che finiva anche per avere ripercussioni demografiche. In questo contesto, per citare ancora la Cantarella, la predicazione di Cristo sul matrimonio indissolubile fu senz'altro ben poco "realistica" e alquanto "rivoluzionaria". Tanto più che per i pagani il matrimonio durava sinché dura la volontà di stare insieme, mentre i cristiani "prendevano in considerazione la sola volontà iniziale, fissandola per così dire nel tempo, e solo ad essa attribuendo valore determinante".Di qui le legislazioni degli imperatori cristiani, che piano piano cominciarono a limitare i divorzi, imponendo «per la prima volta, una casistica di circostanze che li giustificavano».Quanto all'insegnamento e all'educazione cristiani, un apologeta come Giustino nella sua Apologia per i cristiani del II sec. d. C espone il pensiero tradizionale della Chiesa, condannando le seconde nozze e il divorzio dei suoi contemporanei e invitando a rispettare in toto l'insegnamento di Cristo. Che certamente non si impone facilmente, soprattutto presso i ceti più alti. Sembra per esempio che Ludovico il Pio, figlio di Carlo Magno, sia stato il primo sovrano franco ad avere una sola moglie, meritandosi anche per questo l'appellativo di "Pio".Nel corso dei secoli seguenti la Chiesa si batterà in ogni modo anzitutto per insegnare l'importanza e la grandezza dell'indissolubilità matrimoniale, nello stesso tempo per difenderla, soprattutto dalla prepotenza maschile. Tutti ricordano che per questa posizione intransigente si arrivò persino ad uno scisma, quello con l'Inghilterra di Enrico VIII, quando sarebbe bastato annullare le nozze del re inglese, o concedergli il divorzio da Caterina, per scongiurarlo.Ma i casi simili sono moltissimi. Ricordava infatti lo storico Jacques Le Goff su Avvenire (21/1/2007): "Si dice spesso che in caso di adulterio non vi è uguaglianza fra uomo e donna. Ora, in un certo numero di casi molto particolari, e spesso molto famosi, l'uomo è stato severamente condannato dalla Chiesa, pensiamo al re di Francia Roberto il Pio o a Filippo Augusto. Roberto il Pio, nei primi anni dell'XI secolo, dovette separarsi dalla seconda moglie, Berta di Blois, poiché il clero lo considerava bigamo (la prima moglie era ancora viva) e incestuoso (i due erano consanguinei in terzo grado). Il papa Innocenzo III, invece, eletto nel 1198, lanciò l'interdetto contro il regno di Filippo Augusto, che aveva ripudiato nel 1193 la moglie, Ingeborg di Danimarca, e aveva sposato Agnese di Merania. Negli statuti urbani del XII secolo in Italia e del XIII in Francia, si trovano articoli sulla punizione dell'adulterio che prevedono dure pene sia per gli uomini che per le donne. Così, ad esempio, le Consuetudini di Tolosa del 1293, che raccomandano e illustrano in un disegno la castrazione di un marito adultero...".Possiamo citare un altro caso interessante, che ci dice di come l'indissolubilità sia stata per la Chiesa una verità non negoziabile, neppure con i più potenti. Come nel caso di Teutberga. Racconta lo storico Robert Louis Wilken, nel suo I primi mille anni, riguardo al papa Niccolò I: «In un famoso confronto sfidò il re Lotario II di Lotaringia, che aveva divorziato dalla moglie Teutberga perché non gli aveva dato un erede maschio. Quando gli arcivescovi di Colonia e Treviri giunsero a Roma con i verbali di un sinodo che aveva riconosciuto la validità del divorzio, Niccolò scomunicò i due vescovi. Per tutta risposta l'imperatore Ludovico II (fratello di Lotario, ndr) fece marciare le sue truppe su Roma, accusando Niccolò di 'volersi ergere a 'imperatore del mondo'. Il papa però fu irremovibile e alla fine Lotario dovette accettare Teutberga come sua legittima consorte».Ora, a parte notare quanto gesti come questo, ripetuti molte volte nella storia, abbiano significato per la difesa della dignità femminile, spesso esposta, in passato,

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual history of the ideas surrounding freedom of religion. Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom (Yale University Press, 2019) offers a revisionist history of how the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion originated in the writings of the Christian fathers of the early Church, such as Tertullian and Lactantius, during the period when Christians were a persecuted sect of the Roman Empire. Wilken argues that it was not the political theorists of the Enlightenment who invented religious freedom in response to the wars of the Reformation, but rather the participants of the Reformation itself, including both Protestant and Catholic thinkers, who recovered ideas from the Roman-era Church fathers and used them to develop arguments about religious liberty for both individuals and faith communities. Wilken demonstrates that the concerns about whether faith could ever be enforced by the sword were present from the beginnings of Christianity. Wilken's book helps inform our understanding of the origins of religious liberty, which is a concept of great import in contemporary debates about the meaning of the First Amendment's Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual history of the ideas surrounding freedom of religion. Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom (Yale University Press, 2019) offers a revisionist history of how the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion originated in the writings of the Christian fathers of the early Church, such as Tertullian and Lactantius, during the period when Christians were a persecuted sect of the Roman Empire. Wilken argues that it was not the political theorists of the Enlightenment who invented religious freedom in response to the wars of the Reformation, but rather the participants of the Reformation itself, including both Protestant and Catholic thinkers, who recovered ideas from the Roman-era Church fathers and used them to develop arguments about religious liberty for both individuals and faith communities. Wilken demonstrates that the concerns about whether faith could ever be enforced by the sword were present from the beginnings of Christianity. Wilken's book helps inform our understanding of the origins of religious liberty, which is a concept of great import in contemporary debates about the meaning of the First Amendment's Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual history of the ideas surrounding freedom of religion. Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom (Yale University Press, 2019) offers a revisionist history of how the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion originated in the writings of the Christian fathers of the early Church, such as Tertullian and Lactantius, during the period when Christians were a persecuted sect of the Roman Empire. Wilken argues that it was not the political theorists of the Enlightenment who invented religious freedom in response to the wars of the Reformation, but rather the participants of the Reformation itself, including both Protestant and Catholic thinkers, who recovered ideas from the Roman-era Church fathers and used them to develop arguments about religious liberty for both individuals and faith communities. Wilken demonstrates that the concerns about whether faith could ever be enforced by the sword were present from the beginnings of Christianity. Wilken's book helps inform our understanding of the origins of religious liberty, which is a concept of great import in contemporary debates about the meaning of the First Amendment's Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/political-science

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual history of the ideas surrounding freedom of religion. Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom (Yale University Press, 2019) offers a revisionist history of how the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion originated in the writings of the Christian fathers of the early Church, such as Tertullian and Lactantius, during the period when Christians were a persecuted sect of the Roman Empire. Wilken argues that it was not the political theorists of the Enlightenment who invented religious freedom in response to the wars of the Reformation, but rather the participants of the Reformation itself, including both Protestant and Catholic thinkers, who recovered ideas from the Roman-era Church fathers and used them to develop arguments about religious liberty for both individuals and faith communities. Wilken demonstrates that the concerns about whether faith could ever be enforced by the sword were present from the beginnings of Christianity. Wilken's book helps inform our understanding of the origins of religious liberty, which is a concept of great import in contemporary debates about the meaning of the First Amendment's Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual history of the ideas surrounding freedom of religion. Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom (Yale University Press, 2019) offers a revisionist history of how the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion originated in the writings of the Christian fathers of the early Church, such as Tertullian and Lactantius, during the period when Christians were a persecuted sect of the Roman Empire. Wilken argues that it was not the political theorists of the Enlightenment who invented religious freedom in response to the wars of the Reformation, but rather the participants of the Reformation itself, including both Protestant and Catholic thinkers, who recovered ideas from the Roman-era Church fathers and used them to develop arguments about religious liberty for both individuals and faith communities. Wilken demonstrates that the concerns about whether faith could ever be enforced by the sword were present from the beginnings of Christianity. Wilken's book helps inform our understanding of the origins of religious liberty, which is a concept of great import in contemporary debates about the meaning of the First Amendment's Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/european-studies

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual history of the ideas surrounding freedom of religion. Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom (Yale University Press, 2019) offers a revisionist history of how the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion originated in the writings of the Christian fathers of the early Church, such as Tertullian and Lactantius, during the period when Christians were a persecuted sect of the Roman Empire. Wilken argues that it was not the political theorists of the Enlightenment who invented religious freedom in response to the wars of the Reformation, but rather the participants of the Reformation itself, including both Protestant and Catholic thinkers, who recovered ideas from the Roman-era Church fathers and used them to develop arguments about religious liberty for both individuals and faith communities. Wilken demonstrates that the concerns about whether faith could ever be enforced by the sword were present from the beginnings of Christianity. Wilken's book helps inform our understanding of the origins of religious liberty, which is a concept of great import in contemporary debates about the meaning of the First Amendment's Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/religion

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual history of the ideas surrounding freedom of religion. Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom (Yale University Press, 2019) offers a revisionist history of how the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion originated in the writings of the Christian fathers of the early Church, such as Tertullian and Lactantius, during the period when Christians were a persecuted sect of the Roman Empire. Wilken argues that it was not the political theorists of the Enlightenment who invented religious freedom in response to the wars of the Reformation, but rather the participants of the Reformation itself, including both Protestant and Catholic thinkers, who recovered ideas from the Roman-era Church fathers and used them to develop arguments about religious liberty for both individuals and faith communities. Wilken demonstrates that the concerns about whether faith could ever be enforced by the sword were present from the beginnings of Christianity. Wilken's book helps inform our understanding of the origins of religious liberty, which is a concept of great import in contemporary debates about the meaning of the First Amendment's Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual history of the ideas surrounding freedom of religion. Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom (Yale University Press, 2019) offers a revisionist history of how the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion originated in the writings of the Christian fathers of the early Church, such as Tertullian and Lactantius, during the period when Christians were a persecuted sect of the Roman Empire. Wilken argues that it was not the political theorists of the Enlightenment who invented religious freedom in response to the wars of the Reformation, but rather the participants of the Reformation itself, including both Protestant and Catholic thinkers, who recovered ideas from the Roman-era Church fathers and used them to develop arguments about religious liberty for both individuals and faith communities. Wilken demonstrates that the concerns about whether faith could ever be enforced by the sword were present from the beginnings of Christianity. Wilken's book helps inform our understanding of the origins of religious liberty, which is a concept of great import in contemporary debates about the meaning of the First Amendment's Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual history of the ideas surrounding freedom of religion. Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom (Yale University Press, 2019) offers a revisionist history of how the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion originated in the writings of the Christian fathers of the early Church, such as Tertullian and Lactantius, during the period when Christians were a persecuted sect of the Roman Empire. Wilken argues that it was not the political theorists of the Enlightenment who invented religious freedom in response to the wars of the Reformation, but rather the participants of the Reformation itself, including both Protestant and Catholic thinkers, who recovered ideas from the Roman-era Church fathers and used them to develop arguments about religious liberty for both individuals and faith communities. Wilken demonstrates that the concerns about whether faith could ever be enforced by the sword were present from the beginnings of Christianity. Wilken's book helps inform our understanding of the origins of religious liberty, which is a concept of great import in contemporary debates about the meaning of the First Amendment's Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On today's Bible Answer Man broadcast (08/18/23), Hank answers the following questions:Is Jesus a king now or will He be a king when He returns? If so, who will He be King over? (1:22)I've been involved in pornography for a while and I want to know how to overcome this addiction. Am I a reprobate or an apostate because of this sin? (3:45)I'm reading a book called The Christians as the Romans Saw Them by Robert Louis Wilken, and some of the questions raised are: if all things are possible for God, how can one have a reasonable view of God? (15:13) What will our resurrected bodies be like? (18:19) Why did Jesus still have wounds after His resurrection and why did He eat? (20:26)As a new believer, can you help me understand the Trinity? (21:21)

Dr. Erin Smith is a developmental psychologist, and she joins us to discuss how churches can serve children who've experienced trauma. What would a trauma-informed small group look like? How can you organize children's ministry in a way that is sensitive and responsive to how children communicate their trauma? Are only large churches equipped to serve people in this way? (The conversation begins at 13:20.) Plus, in “Headlines” (1:39) Dr. David W. Jones explains what inflation is, how it's affecting you, and what you can do about it. In “On My Bookshelf” (45:19), Dr. Steve McKinion recommends The Spirit of Early Christian Thought by Robert Louis Wilken. Visit our website: https://cfc.sebts.edu/ Support the work of the Center: https://cfc.sebts.edu/about/give/

Dr. Robert Louis Wilken discusses the issues of faith and reason within the early Christian Church, as well as the meaning of virtue. He delves into the categories the early Christians placed different virtues, which came to be known as the cardinal virtues. 

Dr. Robert Louis Wilken discusses the issues of faith and reason within the early Christian Church, as well as the meaning of virtue. He delves into the categories the early Christians placed different virtues, which came to be known as the cardinal virtues. 

In today’s episode we’re talking about religious liberty – its roots, and the relationship it has with the state. We are joined by Dr. Robert Louis Wilkin. Robert Louis Wilken is a Distinguished Fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology and Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia. Dr. Wilken is the author of 10 books, including “Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom”. In our mailbag segment we have a question from a student about getting involved in politics even when we might not feel up to the task. And stick around for the bricklayer segment where we preview an important day of prayer for creation and how you can get friends or fellow parishioners involved. Resources mentioned in the episode: www.MNCatholic.org/Election, www.MNCatholic.org/LessonsinAdvocacy, www.MNCatholic.org/OurCommonHome

What was worship like in the early church? Did it differ significantly from our present practices? A letter written by a Roman official in 112 AD provides a window into these ancient Christian liturgical practices. Pliny the Younger was appointed governor of Bithynia in 111 AD by the Emperor Trajan (98–117). Trajan knew that there was social unrest in that province, with a growing number of political factions causing divisions within the city. Among other things, he tasked Pliny with dissolving all associations or clubs in service of keeping the peace. This led him into a quandary regarding the Christians. In one of the cities, trouble of some kind had arisen regarding the Christians, who were in several cases brought into court and accused of atheism, sexual immorality, incest, and even cannibalism. Pliny the Younger's letter offers a window into the liturgical practices of ancient Christians and how they were often misunderstood by the world. Lecture handoutDownload Suggested Reading Pliny, Letters, vols. 1 & 2. T. E. Page, E. Capps, et al. (London; New York: William Heinemann; The Macmillan Co., 1931). Robert Louis Wilken, The Christians as the Romans Saw Them Everett Ferguson, Backgrounds of Early Christianity Allen Cabaniss, Pattern in Early Christian Worship Ralph Martin, Carmen Christi W. Rordorf, The Eucharist of the Early Christians Hans Lietzmann, Mass and Lord's Supper

A partially successful attempt to compress a thousand years of complex history into a readable text.  (The written version of this review was first published February 11, 2018. Written versions, in web and PDF formats, are available here.)

Robert Louis Wilken discusses his new book Liberty in the Things of God.

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https://westminster-institute.org/events/liberty-in-the-things-of-god-the-christian-origins-of-religious-freedom/ Robert Louis Wilken is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of the History of Christianity emeritus at the University of Virginia. He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, past president of the American Academy of Religion, the North American Patristics Society, and the Academy of Catholic Theology. He is chairman of the board of the Institute on Religion and Public Life, the publisher of First Things. His new book is Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom. (It will be available at his lecture for purchase and signing.) Dr. Wilken states: “Religious freedom rests on a simple truth: religious faith is an inward disposition of the mind and heart and for that reason cannot be coerced by external force.” Chronicling the history of the struggle for religious freedom from the early Christian movement through the seventeenth century, he shows that the origins of religious freedom and liberty of conscience are religious, not political, in origin. They took form before the Enlightenment through the labors of men and women of faith who believed there could be no justice in society without liberty in the things of God. This provocative book, drawing on writings from the early Church as well as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, reminds us of how “the meditations of the past were fitted to affairs of a later day.”; For instance, Dr. Wilken quotes Tertullian (ca. 155-240): “the religious practice of one person neither harms nor helps another. It is not part of religion to coerce religious practice, for it is by choice not coercion that we should be led to religion.” Carlos Eire, author of Reformations, says, “Wilken argues convincingly that the concept of religious freedom originated with Christian thinkers, challenging one of the most revered paradigms in Western intellectual history. In the process, he also injects a corrective twist into current debates about secularist hegemony.” Dr. Wilken received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has taught at Fordham University, the University of Notre Dame, the Institutum Patristicum (Augustinianum) in Rome, the Gregorian University in Rome, Providence College, and Lutheran Theological Seminary. He is the author of more than 10 books, including The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity (Yale, 2013), The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God (Yale, 2003), Remembering the Christian Past (Eerdmans, 1995), and The Christians as the Romans Saw Them (Yale, 1984).

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual history of the ideas surrounding freedom of religion. Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom (Yale University Press, 2019) offers a revisionist history of how the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion originated in the writings of the Christian fathers of the early Church, such as Tertullian and Lactantius, during the period when Christians were a persecuted sect of the Roman Empire. Wilken argues that it was not the political theorists of the Enlightenment who invented religious freedom in response to the wars of the Reformation, but rather the participants of the Reformation itself, including both Protestant and Catholic thinkers, who recovered ideas from the Roman-era Church fathers and used them to develop arguments about religious liberty for both individuals and faith communities. Wilken demonstrates that the concerns about whether faith could ever be enforced by the sword were present from the beginnings of Christianity. Wilken's book helps inform our understanding of the origins of religious liberty, which is a concept of great import in contemporary debates about the meaning of the First Amendment's Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual history of the ideas surrounding freedom of religion. Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom (Yale University Press, 2019) offers a revisionist history of how the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion originated in the writings of the Christian fathers of the early Church, such as Tertullian and Lactantius, during the period when Christians were a persecuted sect of the Roman Empire. Wilken argues that it was not the political theorists of the Enlightenment who invented religious freedom in response to the wars of the Reformation, but rather the participants of the Reformation itself, including both Protestant and Catholic thinkers, who recovered ideas from the Roman-era Church fathers and used them to develop arguments about religious liberty for both individuals and faith communities. Wilken demonstrates that the concerns about whether faith could ever be enforced by the sword were present from the beginnings of Christianity. Wilken's book helps inform our understanding of the origins of religious liberty, which is a concept of great import in contemporary debates about the meaning of the First Amendment's Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual history of the ideas surrounding freedom of religion. Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom (Yale University Press, 2019) offers a revisionist history of how the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion originated in the writings of the Christian fathers of the early Church, such as Tertullian and Lactantius, during the period when Christians were a persecuted sect of the Roman Empire. Wilken argues that it was not the political theorists of the Enlightenment who invented religious freedom in response to the wars of the Reformation, but rather the participants of the Reformation itself, including both Protestant and Catholic thinkers, who recovered ideas from the Roman-era Church fathers and used them to develop arguments about religious liberty for both individuals and faith communities. Wilken demonstrates that the concerns about whether faith could ever be enforced by the sword were present from the beginnings of Christianity. Wilken's book helps inform our understanding of the origins of religious liberty, which is a concept of great import in contemporary debates about the meaning of the First Amendment's Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual history of the ideas surrounding freedom of religion.  Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom (Yale University Press, 2019) offers a revisionist history of how the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion originated in the writings of the Christian fathers of the early Church, such as Tertullian and Lactantius, during the period when Christians were a persecuted sect of the Roman Empire.  Wilken argues that it was not the political theorists of the Enlightenment who invented religious freedom in response to the wars of the Reformation, but rather the participants of the Reformation itself, including both Protestant and Catholic thinkers, who recovered ideas from the Roman-era Church fathers and used them to develop arguments about religious liberty for both individuals and faith communities.  Wilken demonstrates that the concerns about whether faith could ever be enforced by the sword were present from the beginnings of Christianity.  Wilken’s book helps inform our understanding of the origins of religious liberty, which is a concept of great import in contemporary debates about the meaning of the First Amendment’s Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual history of the ideas surrounding freedom of religion.  Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom (Yale University Press, 2019) offers a revisionist history of how the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion originated in the writings of the Christian fathers of the early Church, such as Tertullian and Lactantius, during the period when Christians were a persecuted sect of the Roman Empire.  Wilken argues that it was not the political theorists of the Enlightenment who invented religious freedom in response to the wars of the Reformation, but rather the participants of the Reformation itself, including both Protestant and Catholic thinkers, who recovered ideas from the Roman-era Church fathers and used them to develop arguments about religious liberty for both individuals and faith communities.  Wilken demonstrates that the concerns about whether faith could ever be enforced by the sword were present from the beginnings of Christianity.  Wilken’s book helps inform our understanding of the origins of religious liberty, which is a concept of great import in contemporary debates about the meaning of the First Amendment’s Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual history of the ideas surrounding freedom of religion.  Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom (Yale University Press, 2019) offers a revisionist history of how the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion originated in the writings of the Christian fathers of the early Church, such as Tertullian and Lactantius, during the period when Christians were a persecuted sect of the Roman Empire.  Wilken argues that it was not the political theorists of the Enlightenment who invented religious freedom in response to the wars of the Reformation, but rather the participants of the Reformation itself, including both Protestant and Catholic thinkers, who recovered ideas from the Roman-era Church fathers and used them to develop arguments about religious liberty for both individuals and faith communities.  Wilken demonstrates that the concerns about whether faith could ever be enforced by the sword were present from the beginnings of Christianity.  Wilken’s book helps inform our understanding of the origins of religious liberty, which is a concept of great import in contemporary debates about the meaning of the First Amendment’s Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual history of the ideas surrounding freedom of religion. Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom (Yale University Press, 2019) offers a revisionist history of how the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion originated in the writings of the Christian fathers of the early Church, such as Tertullian and Lactantius, during the period when Christians were a persecuted sect of the Roman Empire. Wilken argues that it was not the political theorists of the Enlightenment who invented religious freedom in response to the wars of the Reformation, but rather the participants of the Reformation itself, including both Protestant and Catholic thinkers, who recovered ideas from the Roman-era Church fathers and used them to develop arguments about religious liberty for both individuals and faith communities. Wilken demonstrates that the concerns about whether faith could ever be enforced by the sword were present from the beginnings of Christianity. Wilken's book helps inform our understanding of the origins of religious liberty, which is a concept of great import in contemporary debates about the meaning of the First Amendment's Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual history of the ideas surrounding freedom of religion.  Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom (Yale University Press, 2019) offers a revisionist history of how the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion originated in the writings of the Christian fathers of the early Church, such as Tertullian and Lactantius, during the period when Christians were a persecuted sect of the Roman Empire.  Wilken argues that it was not the political theorists of the Enlightenment who invented religious freedom in response to the wars of the Reformation, but rather the participants of the Reformation itself, including both Protestant and Catholic thinkers, who recovered ideas from the Roman-era Church fathers and used them to develop arguments about religious liberty for both individuals and faith communities.  Wilken demonstrates that the concerns about whether faith could ever be enforced by the sword were present from the beginnings of Christianity.  Wilken’s book helps inform our understanding of the origins of religious liberty, which is a concept of great import in contemporary debates about the meaning of the First Amendment’s Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual history of the ideas surrounding freedom of religion.  Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom (Yale University Press, 2019) offers a revisionist history of how the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion originated in the writings of the Christian fathers of the early Church, such as Tertullian and Lactantius, during the period when Christians were a persecuted sect of the Roman Empire.  Wilken argues that it was not the political theorists of the Enlightenment who invented religious freedom in response to the wars of the Reformation, but rather the participants of the Reformation itself, including both Protestant and Catholic thinkers, who recovered ideas from the Roman-era Church fathers and used them to develop arguments about religious liberty for both individuals and faith communities.  Wilken demonstrates that the concerns about whether faith could ever be enforced by the sword were present from the beginnings of Christianity.  Wilken’s book helps inform our understanding of the origins of religious liberty, which is a concept of great import in contemporary debates about the meaning of the First Amendment’s Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual history of the ideas surrounding freedom of religion.  Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom (Yale University Press, 2019) offers a revisionist history of how the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion originated in the writings of the Christian fathers of the early Church, such as Tertullian and Lactantius, during the period when Christians were a persecuted sect of the Roman Empire.  Wilken argues that it was not the political theorists of the Enlightenment who invented religious freedom in response to the wars of the Reformation, but rather the participants of the Reformation itself, including both Protestant and Catholic thinkers, who recovered ideas from the Roman-era Church fathers and used them to develop arguments about religious liberty for both individuals and faith communities.  Wilken demonstrates that the concerns about whether faith could ever be enforced by the sword were present from the beginnings of Christianity.  Wilken’s book helps inform our understanding of the origins of religious liberty, which is a concept of great import in contemporary debates about the meaning of the First Amendment’s Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, has written an intellectual history of the ideas surrounding freedom of religion.  Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom (Yale University Press, 2019) offers a revisionist history of how the ideas of freedom of conscience and freedom of religion originated in the writings of the Christian fathers of the early Church, such as Tertullian and Lactantius, during the period when Christians were a persecuted sect of the Roman Empire.  Wilken argues that it was not the political theorists of the Enlightenment who invented religious freedom in response to the wars of the Reformation, but rather the participants of the Reformation itself, including both Protestant and Catholic thinkers, who recovered ideas from the Roman-era Church fathers and used them to develop arguments about religious liberty for both individuals and faith communities.  Wilken demonstrates that the concerns about whether faith could ever be enforced by the sword were present from the beginnings of Christianity.  Wilken’s book helps inform our understanding of the origins of religious liberty, which is a concept of great import in contemporary debates about the meaning of the First Amendment’s Free Exercise and Establishment Clauses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a recent Washington Post op-ed, Robert Kagan wrote, “Only with the advent of Enlightenment liberalism did people begin to believe that the individual conscience, as well as the individual’s body, should be inviolate and protected from the intrusions of state and church.” It is widely thought, as Kagan assumes, that religious freedom is the work of the Enlightenment. Only with the decline of religious faith and the end of the religious wars engendered by the Reformation did liberty of conscience gain a foothold in the emerging secular states of Europe. Or so the story goes.Liberty in the Things of God tells a different story. The origins of modern notions of liberty of conscience and religious freedom are to be found in Christian writers from the early centuries (e.g. Tertullian of Carthage and Lactantius), medieval churchmen and theologians, and Christian thinkers in the 16th and 17th centuries. Three features of this tradition of thinking are distinctive: religious faith cannot be coerced; conscience is a form of spiritual knowledge that mandates action; the realm of statecraft and the realm of religion are distinct and must be kept separate.Please join us for a conversation with Robert Louis Wilken about the Christian origins of religious freedom. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What does it mean for Christ to be "the firstborn of all creation?"For an overview of church history, see The First Thousand Years by Robert Louis Wilken.

Robert Louis Wilken

Robert Louis Wilken

Dean Timothy George talks with historian Robert Louis Wilken about his new book on the first millennium of the Christian church.

Dean Timothy George talks with historian Robert Louis Wilken about his new book on the first millennium of the Christian church.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *"Their Words Seemed Like Nonsense": Easter Sunday 2008* for Sunday, 23 March 2008; book review: *The Spirit of Early Christian Thought; Seeking the Face of God* by Robert Louis Wilken (2003); film review: *Ratatouille* (2007); poem review: *Easter Communion* by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *The Parallel Universe of the Passion of Jesus* for Sunday, 16 March 2008; book review: *The Christians as the Romans Saw Them* by Robert Louis Wilken (1984, 2003); film review: *The Other Side of the Mirror; Bob Dylan Live at the Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965* (review by David Werther) (2007); poem review: *The Storm* by George Herbert.

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, spoke on St. Augustine, The Confessions, and the Christian Intellectual Life at Pepperdine University on Jan. 11, 2007. Pepperdine's Paul Contino sat down with Wilken to discuss his most recent work, The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God. During the discussion, Wilken and Contino explore what some of the earliest Christian thinkers have to teach us about the relationship of faith and reason.

Robert Louis Wilken, the William R. Kenan Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia, spoke on St. Augustine, The Confessions, and the Christian Intellectual Life at Pepperdine University on Jan. 11, 2007. Pepperdine's Paul Contino sat down with Wilken to discuss his most recent work, The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God. During the discussion, Wilken and Contino explore what some of the earliest Christian thinkers have to teach us about the relationship of faith and reason.