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219 - Dr. Nathan Jacobs - Theology for Those Who Don’t Fit

The Symbolic World

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The Theology of the Eastern Church Fathers

When i started readiing the eastern church fathers, i found that so much of what they considered problematic, or what i consider problematic, i should say, in this sort of latin augustinian, western christianity, and i am rejected and overtly opposed. It seemed to violate the intuitions that i had in terms of what i saw as the sot redemptive root in in human persons. They did not have an arbitrary deity the way augustine, and i mean it flowers, of course, into the scholastics and beyond into reformation, post reformation theology, catholic and protestant.

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