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Hey guys! So, due to audio issues on the last episode release of The Apologists, we pulled that video down and weâre re-releasing tonight at 6:30pm with the audio fixed!!
HUGE SHOUT OUT and major thanks to one of our listeners, Erick Almeida ( âŞ@ultimateoriginalgod⏠) who took it upon himself to amend the file when we were in struggleville trying to diagnose the issue.
We have THE best subscribers. Thank you all and please enjoy the more listenable version tonight!
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This moment meant everything to me (thanks to Dan for capturing the moment!).
We were able to pray before the bones and the preserved prison chains of St Paul. It was the only moment on the journey where God gave me the grace of tears.
Dan and I owe absolutely everything to the tent maker from Tarsus. His life and letters were fire to our adolescent hearts so many years ago; they made us fall in love with Jesus Christ and planted within us a perpetual desire to be converted. Unlike the hustle and bustle of tourists at other holy sites, St Paulâs resting place is usually less crowded, silent, and available for direct access. It was very, well, Pauline.
After Mass, we descended the stairs and venerated his memory, honored his chains, begged his intercessions, and thanked him for his life of faithfulness to the Gospel and his unparalleled witness, even unto death.
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The experience of Catholicism in the city of Rome and its environs is something you cannot forget. You leave the city assured that Christ is principally concerned with this Church and that she is the mother of all Christians.
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St Ignatius of Antioch is right here under this Altar in the Basilica of St Clement. This church is very near to the Colosseum, where Ignatius was devoured by beasts sometime between 107 and 117 AD and was crowned with martyrdom.
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Look who just arrived in Rome! đ
First stop: Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere.
This is the first church in Rome to be dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Pope Callixtus I established the original Church here in the early third century. The current floor and foundations belong to the early fourth century before Christianity was formally recognized as the official state religion. The columns came from the ruins of the Baths of Caracalla (thanks Caracalla!).
Pope Callixtus is entombed under the high altar.
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Hebrewâ->Israelite religion, and subsequently Christianity, were/are not aniconic religions. This is Protestant myth-making.
When God forbade idols, the reason was twofold: (1) because He had not revealed any likeness (Deut 4:15), He was nothing like the pagan gods (Exodus 20:3), and therefore could not be portrayed by common, pagan animal and nature motifs (Exodus 20:4); and (2) He had already established His personal idol in the Garden Temple of Eden, Adam (Genesis 1:26), and revealed His express icon in the heavenly Temple, Jesus (Colossians 1:15).
This is why we can, and always could, paint and carve images of Jesus. It is precisely why the moment Christian archaeology emerges, there are paintings of our Lord.
We are people of the image, and aniconic Christianities represent a tacit denial of Godâs redemptive acts in space, matter, and time.
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Summer break is over yaâll, and weâre back in the saddle!
Recorded our episode yesterday on âThe Gnostics, and now doing some post-production.
Will release soon! đ
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Hey everyone! Our summer hiatus is almost over and weâll be back soon with more episodes of our First 500 Years series, commencing with an episode on Gnosticism.
However, Steven was just on the Anglican âFACTSâ podcast yesterday for an open format discussion about a recently leaked report which suggests that the DDF has been clandestinely working very closely with certain Anglican groups on a possible/alleged âfull communionâ arrangement.
You can watch that discussion here, and it is also in the âinterviewsâ section of our playlists:
youtube.com/live/gNTmzCNek-0?si=VB1aQ9MDS3m5dSTx
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The debate regarding Scripture and Tradition seems to be having another moment online, so posting here a couple, overarching thoughts for folks to consider.
First, the debate should not really revolve around which is anterior or posterior, inferior or superior, to the other, but rather around the nature of inherent reciprocity between the two and whether that reciprocity can be logically or theologically broken without doing irreparable damage to both.
As much as the content of Scripture was written to guide and teach the Church as the privileged witness to divine revelation, the Church was divinely established to (among other things) compile, interpret, teach, and guard the Scriptures with a divine mandate and reciprocal guarantee of inspiration (John 15:26-27). Before a word of the NT was written, Jesus established His Church; but without the witness of the NT, we would know very little, reliably, about the establishment of the Church or the nature of her authority. This is why the arguments from priority or anteriority miss the point. You canât divide the Scripture from the Church and preserve the integrity of both any more than you can divide a man between his soul and spirit and preserve the man. They both spring forth and develop from the same action of God in history.
If you assert the priority and authority of Tradition over and against Scripture, you will end up with a demoted Scripture, under the boot of the ultramontane, leviathan Church where truth is defined by mere hierarchical fiat. If you assert the priority and authority of Scripture over and against Tradition, you will end up with the demoted, âsemper reformandaâ Church, which effectively views the Church as a mostly human institution which must always be fashioned, molded, refashioned, and adjusted to whatever ecclesiological vision a particular group believes is expressed in the texts of Scripture. Both positions do violence to divine revelation. The former delivers an inspired Church with uninspired texts; the latter delivers an uninspired Church with an inspired text (an inspired text which consistently envisions an inspired Church!).
Second, because Protestant Christians and Catholics piously and colloquially refer to Scripture as the âword of God,â it seems that many Protestants have forgotten that that title was always meant to be analogous, and for them it has begun to obscure a much more fundamental truth: The âWord of Godâ is Jesus Christ. âRevelation,â proper, is the God-Man. Scripture and Tradition, then, together act as a unified witness to this revelation. As this revelation, the God-Man, cannot be divorced from His Bride, Scripture cannot be divorced from Tradition. Scripture, then, is the infallible word *about* the Word, and Tradition is the infallible interpreter/handmaid of the word about the Word.
Perhaps nowhere is this perennial vision better described than in the Second Vatican Councilâs dogmatic constitution on divine revelation: Dei Verbum. If anyone wishes to breathe new life into this debate, there is likely no better place to start than Dei Verbum.
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Just wrapped up filmingâ what Dan and I would considerâ our favorite discussion yet, all about the âapocalypticâ view of the atonement and what Jesusâ Incarnation, death, and resurrection did to the unseen realm.
Hoping to release tomorrow on YouTube, so keep a look out! Have and blessed Good Friday!
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After 15 years of Protestantism and almost a decade of early Christian studies in academia, these two brothers and reverts to the Catholic faith make the Bible, History, and Theology entertaining, educational, and accessible for a general audience.