Faith and Reason Exchange

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...

David and Adam continue their series on the reasonableness of Christianity. In this episode, they cover recent New Testament scholarship on the Gospels as biography and eyewitness testimony.   Some helpful resources: Richard Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses: The Gospels as Eyewitness Testimony    Richard Burridge, What are the Gospels? A Comparison with Graeco-Roman Biography Show Notes: ·    ...

Is the New Testament reliable? David and Adam begin a new series addressing the question: Is it reasonable to believe in Christ? They start with the most basic question: Is the New Testament reliable? Some helpful resources: Fragments of Truth (a Documentary) Bruce Metzger, The Text of the New Testament: Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration (3 rd ed) John Warwick Montgomery, History, Law...

For more on Dr. Stephen C. Meyer, see https://stephencmeyer.org/ . Show Notes: ·       Support 1517 ·       1517 Podcasts ·       The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts ·       1517 on Youtube What's New from 1517: ·       2023 HWSS Conference Livestream Signup ·       Free 2023 Advent Resources ·       2024(May 3-4) NWA Tickets are Now Available! ·       Join the 1517 Academy ·       All Char...

This is the last episode in David and Adam's series on the philosophical and scientific reasons for believing in God's existence. The two take you through the argument from biology and the irreducibly complex and purposefully arranged information found in DNA to the existence of a designer.   For more detail from the leading proponents of this argument, see Michael Behe's  Darwin's Black Box and S...

David and Adam dive back into the details of the universe's fine tuning, explain alternative theories (e.g. multiverse theory) to the one advanced by intelligent design, and discuss the implications all this has for the theistic worldview.   "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork" (Psalm 19:1).   Show Notes: ·       The book David and Adam keep referring t...

David and Adam are back at it, exploring the ramifications of philosophy and modern science on the question of God's existence. They begin with a brief conversation about what it means to be a critical realist and then hone back in on Big Bang cosmology while introducing the notion of what is often described as the fine-tuning of the universe. Show Notes: ·       The book David and Adam keep refer...

David and Adam begin their series on the various arguments for (and reasons to believe in) God's existence. This episode begins with a little history behind the cosmological argument followed by a conversation about the implications of a contingent universe.   Show Notes: ·       1517 Podcast Survey ·       Support 1517 ·       1517 Podcasts ·       The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts ·    ...

David and Adam discuss how reason's competence (with respect to the Christian tradition) has changed over the centuries. Plato and Aristotle, medieval schoolmen like Thomas Aquinas and William of Ockham, and modern thinkers such as René Descartes and Charles Darwin are all discussed to set the stage for subsequent episodes addressing the reasonableness of belief in God's existence.   Show Notes: ·...

What is fideism? David and Adam define fideism and discuss its problematic place in the epistemology of much contemporary Christian thought.     Show Notes: ·       1517 Podcast Survey ·       Support 1517 ·       1517 Podcasts ·       The 1517 Podcast Network on Apple Podcasts ·       1517 on Youtube What's New from 1517: ·       Faith and Reason Exchange @ 1517.org ·       2023 HWSS Conference L...