Faith and Reason Exchange

David and Adam reflect on the nature of truth in a post-truth age while discussing the controversy concerning Uri Berliner, NPR, and its new CEO. Here's the article that started the controversy: https://www.thefp.com/p/npr-editor-how-npr-lost-americas-trust .  Katherine Maher's full TED talk is available here: https://youtu.be/r2gsj0EEE3I?si=WZXKmqXS-XG1ez7L .    Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podc...

David and Adam reflect on the Christian disposition toward politics in general and American politics in particular.   Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts 1517 on Youtube 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 Academy - Free Theological Education What's New from 1517: 30 Minutes in the NT on Youtube Remembering Rod Rosenbladt Preorder: Encouragement for Motherhood Edited by Katie Koplin Ava...

David and Adam reflect on some recent comments from the leading atheist Richard Dawkins and raise the question: has atheism run its course? (You can watch the full interview with Dawkins on LBC  here .) Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts 1517 on Youtube 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 Academy - Free Theological Education What's New from 1517: 30 Minutes in the NT on Youtube Remembe...

David and Adam reflect on the significance of Jesus' resurrection for Christian faith and life.  Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts 1517 on Youtube 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 Academy - Free Theological Education What's New from 1517: 30 Minutes in the NT on Youtube Remembering Rod Rosenbladt Preorder: Encouragement for Motherhood Edited by Katie Koplin Available Now: Be Thou M...

In this episode, David and Adam conclude their brief overview of the heresies that preceded and led to the ecumenical councils of Nicæa (325) and Constantinople (381).    Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What's New from 1517: New 1517 Academy Course: The Early Church: Christ, Controversies and Characters with Bruce Hillman Preorder:...

In this episode, David and Adam talk about the Jewish-Christian Ebionites (and their adoptionist Christology) and begin to introduce Arianism.   Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What's New from 1517: New 1517 Academy Course: The Early Church: Christ, Controversies and Characters with Bruce Hillman Preorder: Encouragement for Motherho...

David and Adam talk with Dr. Francis Beckwith about faith and reason, natural law, and theology in view of one of the most influential Christian thinkers of the catholic tradition, Thomas Aquinas. Dr. Beckwith's book  Never Doubt Thomas: The Catholic Aquinas as Evangelical and Protestant explores these and other topics in more detail and in a way that is helpful for protestants who wonder about th...

In this episode, David and Adam talk about the second-century heresy of Marcionism.  Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What's New from 1517: Remembering Rod Rosenbladt New 1517 Academy Course: The Early Church: Christ, Controversies and Characters with Bruce Hillman Preorder: Encouragement for Motherhood Edited by Katie Koplin Preorde...

David and Adam begin a new miniseries covering the major Christian heresies that preceded the Council of Nicaea (AD 325). Today's episode looks at Docetism, which is an expression of a Greek spiritualist philosophy known as Gnosticism.  Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What's New from 1517: Remembering Rod Rosenbladt New 1517 Academy...

Luke's Acts of the Apostles tells the story of the earliest Christians. The second half of the book centers on the evangelistic (and apologetic) activity of St. Paul. In this episode, David and Adam talk about Paul's trip to the birthplace of philosophy--Athens--and the stoic and epicurean philosophers he spoke to on Mars Hill.  (We encountered some audio issues in this episode. Most of it was rec...

David and Adam discuss what is often called methodological naturalism and whether or not it is presumes a naturalistic ontology or worldview.   Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What's New from 1517: Bible in One Year with Chad Bird Freedom Lessons Album Your God is too Glorious, 2nd Edition by Chad Bird Schweitzer's Psychoanalysis of...

David and Adam finish their series on G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy.  This episode covers the last four chapters.  Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What's New from 1517: Bible in One Year with Chad Bird Freedom Lessons Album Your God is too Glorious, 2nd Edition by Chad Bird Schweitzer's Psychoanalysis of Jesus Christ: & Other Essays i...

David and Adam continue their series on G.K. Chesterton's Orthodoxy.  This episode covers chapters 4 and 5.  Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What's New from 1517: Bible in One Year with Chad Bird Freedom Lessons Album Your God is too Glorious, 2nd Edition by Chad Bird Schweitzer's Psychoanalysis of Jesus Christ: & Other Essays in Ch...

David and Adam begin a series on G.K. Chesterton's  Orthodoxy.  This episode covers chapters 1-3.  Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What's New from 1517: Bible in One Year with Chad Bird Freedom Lessons Album Your God is too Glorious, 2nd Edition by Chad Bird Schweitzer's Psychoanalysis of Jesus Christ: & Other Essays in Christian Ps...

David and Adam reflect on C.S. Lewis's "The Poison of Subjectivism". You can find the essay at: https://williamwoodall.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/2/2/10226906/the_poison_of_subjectivism.pdf .  Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What's New from 1517: Bible in One Year with Chad Bird Freedom Lessons Album Your God is too Glorious, 2nd Editio...

David and Adam continue the discussion on woke culture and ideology.    Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What's New from 1517: Bible in One Year with Chad Bird Freedom Lessons Album Your God is too Glorious, 2nd Edition by Chad Bird Schweitzer's Psychoanalysis of Jesus Christ: & Other Essays in Christian Psychotherapy by John Warwick...

This episode introduces the topic of our next few episodes, where David and Adam discuss woke culture and ideology.    Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What's New from 1517: Freedom Lessons Album Your God is too Glorious, 2nd Edition by Chad Bird Schweitzer's Psychoanalysis of Jesus Christ: & Other Essays in Christian Psychotherapy b...

David and Adam talk about the primary methods of Christian apologetics--focusing on evidentialism and presuppositionism.   Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What's New from 1517: Freedom Lessons Album Your God is too Glorious, 2nd Edition by Chad Bird Schweitzer's Psychoanalysis of Jesus Christ: & Other Essays in Christian Psychothera...

David and Adam finish their conversation about the Regensburg lecture. This time, however, they talk about the concept of logos in the history of Greco-Roman and Christian thought and its culmination in the person and work of Jesus.   Show Notes: Support 1517 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What's New from 1517: Freedom Lessons Album Your God is too Gloriou...

David and Adam continue their conversation about Islam, venturing beyond the issues raised about in the Regensburg lecture (see season 2, episode 1). They discuss the religion's basic doctrine and some of its parallels and contradictions with Christianity.   Show Notes: 1517 Podcasts The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts 1517 on Youtube What's New from 1517: Freedom Lessons Album Free 2023 Ad...

Nearly two decades ago, Pope Benedict XVI (formerly Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger) delivered what is often called the Regensburg lecture. Though it was meant to rekindle the relationship between faith and reason (or science and theology) in higher education, much of the world—or at least the Muslim majority world—got distracted by a brief reference he made to a fifteenth-century dialogue about Islam,...

David and Adam have spent the last two and half months exploring both the philosophical and scientific evidence for God's existence and the historical evidence for the resurrection and deity of Jesus. The case for both is strong (and your hosts have only really scratched the surface). Even so, unbelief persists. In fact, the data from every relevant survey suggests it is on the rise. This episode...

The first Christians believed Jesus was Lord and God. This episode explores how this could be given the monotheism of Judaism. The only explanation, David and Adam argue, is the fact of the resurrection.   Some helpful resources: Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the God of Israel Martin Hengel, Studies in Early Christology   Show Notes: ·       Support 1517 ·       1517 Podcasts ·       The 1517 Podcas...

David and Adam continue their conversation about the historical reasons for believing in Jesus' resurrection from the dead. On the conversion of the apostles, see David Andersen,  Faithless to Fearless: The Even that Changed the World . Show Notes: ·       Support 1517 ·       1517 Podcasts ·       The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts ·       1517 on Youtube What's New from 1517: ·       Fre...

David and Adam begin to build a case for the resurrection of Jesus using minimal and uncontested facts from history—beginning with the crucifixion and death of Jesus. Some helpful resources: David Andersen, Faithless to Fearless: The Even that Changed the World Gary Habermas, The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus   Show Notes: ·       Support 1517 ·       1517 Podcasts ·       The 1517 Podcast Ne...