Episodes
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In this episode, CBR Directors Brandon Smith and Winston Hottman discuss Athanasius’s The Life of Antony and Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Moses and Life of Saint Macrina.. This episode accompanies our 2023 Christian Spirituality Classics Reading Challenge.
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In this episode, Luke Stamps is joined by special guest Timothy George to discuss the contribution and legacy of Celtic Spirituality. This episode accompanies our 2023 Christian Spirituality Classics Reading Challenge.
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In this episode, Winston Hottman and Luke Stamps are joined by special guest Nathan Finn to discuss Andrew Fuller and his work Gospel Worthy of All Acceptation (1785). This episode is the eighth of the CBR Baptist Classics Reading Challenge.
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In this episode, Matt Emerson and Luke Stamps are joined by special guest Matthew Barrett to discuss John Gill and his work The Doctrine of the Trinity Stated and Defended (1731). This episode is the sixth of the CBR Baptist Classics Reading Challenge.
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In this episode, Matt Emerson and Luke Stamps are joined by special guest Jesse Owens to discuss Thomas Monck and his work A Cure for the Cankering Error of the New Eutychians (1673). This episode is the fifth of the CBR Baptist Classics Reading Challenge.
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In this episode, Matt Emerson is Joined by special guest Jonathan Arnold to discuss Benjamin Keach and his work Gold Refined (1689). This episode is the fourth of the CBR Baptist Classics Reading Challenge.
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In this episode, Luke Stamps is joined by special guest Sam Renihan to discuss Nehemiah Coxe and the contribution of his work A Discourse of the Covenants (1681) to Baptist theology. This episode is the third of the CBR Baptist Classics Reading Challenge.
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In this episode, Matt Emerson and Luke Stamps discuss Roger Williams and his work The Bloody Tenent of Persecution (1644). This episode is the second of the CBR Baptist Classics Reading Challenge.
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In this episode, Matt Emerson and Luke Stamps discuss Baptist Confessions of Faith, a collection of the most important Baptist (and Anabaptist) confessions of faith in history. This episode is the first of the CBR Baptist Classics Reading Challenge.
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In this episode, Matt Emerson and Luke Stamps summarize and discuss several classic Baptist and Reformed works from the CBR Theology Classics Reading Challenge, including: Institutes of the Christian Religion (Calvin), 1689 Confession, Orthodox Creed, Catechism (Keach), Our Reasonable Faith (Bavinck), and Church Dogmatics (Barth).
John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Book II), 1559: The touchstone of Reformed theology, this book is grounded in the conviction that to truly know ourselves we must know God. Book II lays out Calvin’s biblical theology from the fall of humanity to our redemption in Christ. Buy here.
Baptist Confessions of Faith, 1689 Confession, Orthodox Creed, Keach’s Catechism, 17th Century: Contrary to popular opinion, early Baptists were deeply rooted in the Great Tradition of the church while maintaining a commitment to the supreme authority of the Bible. These early confessions highlight the orthodox pedigree and unique features of Baptist life and teaching.
Herman Bavinck, The Wonderful Works of God, 1921: Also published as Our Reasonable Faith, this work is one of the greatest single-volume systematic theologies of all time. In it, Bavinck scripturally and methodically unpacks the fundamental doctrines of the Reformed tradition while guided by the principle of his opening sentence: “God, and God alone, is man’s highest good.” Buy here.
Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics (a selection), 1932-67: Compiled from lectures delivered over the course of his career, Church Dogmatics represents Barth’s crowning achievement. The work builds on the thought of the Fathers and Reformers to call Christians back to the Trinitarian faith of the Scriptures. Buy here.
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In this episode, Luke Stamps and Channing Crisler summarize and discuss the main points of Luther’s Large Catechism, the eighth recommended read for the CBR Theology Classics Reading Challenge.
Large Catechism
Martin Luther, Large Catechism, 1529: Organized around the Ten Commandments, Apostle’s Creed, and Lord’s Prayer, along with an extended treatment of the sacraments, this work was created to help churches and families faithfully hand down Christian doctrine and moral teaching. It represents one of Luther’s most enduring contributions. Buy here.
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In this episode, Matt Emerson, Luke Stamps, and Tyler Wittman summarize and discuss the main points of Aquinas’ Summa Theologiae, the seventh recommended read for the CBR Theology Classics Reading Challenge.
Summa Theologiae
Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae (a selection), 1265-74: The magnum opus of the “Angelic Doctor,” this work leaves almost no topic relevant to theology untouched. This massive summary of Christian learning is one of the most important works of theology in the Western church. Buy here.
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In this episode, Brandon Smith, Winston Hottman, and Gavin Ortlund summarize and discuss the main points of Anslem’s Why God Became Man, the sixth recommended read for the CBR Theology Classics Reading Challenge.
Why God Became Man
Anselm of Canterbury, Why God Became Man, c. 1098: One of the most influential treatments of the doctrine of the atonement in Christian history, Anselm’s thesis is just as compelling today as it was almost a millennium ago: only God can satisfy God but only a human can be a substitute for humans; therefore, the Christ, the God-Man, is the only means of repairing the breach. Buy here.
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Theology Classics: Cyril of Alexandria
In this episode, Matt Emerson and Luke Stamps summarize and discuss the main points of Cyril’s On the Unity of Christ, the fifth recommended read for the CBR Theology Classics Reading Challenge.
On the Unity of Christ
Cyril of Alexandria, On the Unity of Christ, c. 444: What does it mean to say that the Word became flesh—that God lived among us as Jesus of Nazareth? This book defends the doctrine of the incarnation against the heretical belief that the man Jesus Christ was somehow a distinct “son” from the eternal and unchanging divine Son of God. Buy here.
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Manifesto V: Catholicity
We encourage a critical but charitable engagement with the whole church of the Lord Jesus Christ, both past and present. We believe that Baptists have much to contribute as well as much to receive in the great collection of traditions that constitute the holy catholic church. We believe that we are “traditioned” creatures and that we should move beyond the false polarities of an individualistic modernity and a relativistic postmodernity.
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Theology Classics: Augustine of Hippo
In this episode, Luke Stamps and Winston Hottman summarize and discuss the main points of Augustine’s Enchiridion, the fourth recommended read for the CBR Theology Classics Reading Challenge.
Enchiridion
Augustine, Enchiridion, c. 420: St. Augustine is arguably the most influential figure in the history of the church after the time of the apostles. This little book is lesser known than some of his other classics (e.g., The Confessions or The City of God), but it is a helpful primer from the great bishop of Hippo on the basics of Christianity: faith, hope, and love. Buy here.
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Theology Classics: Gregory of Nazianzus
In this episode, Matt Emerson and Brandon Smith summarize and discuss the main points of Nazianzus' Five Theological Orations, the third recommended read for the CBR Theology Classics Reading Challenge.
Five Theological Orations
Gregory of Nazianzus, Five Theological Orations, c. 381: These five “orations” or sermons were delivered in Constantinople during the height of the fourth-century Trinitarian controversy. Taken together they are a masterful biblical, theological, and spiritual exploration of the doctrine of the Trinity. Buy here.
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Manifesto IV: Baptist Distinctives
We affirm the distinctive contributions of the Baptist tradition as a renewal movement within the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church. These distinctives include the necessity of personal conversion, a regenerate church, believers’ baptism, congregational governance, and religious liberty.
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Manifesto III: Always Reforming
We affirm the fundamentals of reformational theology, especially as they are expressed in the great solae of the Reformation: fallen humanity can be saved by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone on the basis of Scripture alone to the glory of God alone.
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Theology Classics: Athanasius of Alexandria
In this episode, Brandon Smith and Luke Stamps summarize and discuss the main points of Athanasius' On the Incarnation, the second recommended read for the CBR Theology Classics Reading Challenge.
On the Incarnation
Athanasius, On the Incarnation, c. 319: Written by the young Alexandrian priest several years before the Arian controversy that would make him famous, On the Incarnation remains one of the best explanations of why the one who would redeem fallen humanity to God must be both God and man. Buy here.
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