A History of Christian Theology

We are happy to welcome Benjamin Brandon to this week's episode. We will discuss the Christian Platonist, Clement of Alexandria and his Stromata (or miscellanies). Please visit our website at http://www.ahistoryofchristiantheology.com where we have a map of the philosophical schools of Athens and other great content.

Sorry about the shortness of this episode. We will be back with a full length episode next week.

With Tom back on the show, we turn to Clement of Alexandria, one of the greatest thinkers of the Christian tradition, but largely neglected due to the complexity of his thought. We will look at the relationship between humans and the divine in both pagan and Christian thought.

Trever and Chad discuss two early theologians from the great centers of Early Christianity, Antioch and Alexandria. Please go to our website at ahistoryofchristiantheology.com where we will be updating a map showing where are theologians are located in the ancient world. It will give you a sense of where we are talking about when going through our history. Thanks for listening.

In this somewhat short episode, we look at Athenagoras. A little known theologian writing in the 2nd century, as an apologist, somewhat like Justin Martyr, only better.

Changing things up a bit, we are not discussing a theologian, but the Apostles' Creed. We discuss what it means to have faith and whether or not there is a conflict between faith and reason, as well as other important ideas. Thanks for listening.

Finishing up Irenaeus of Lyons, Tom, Trevor and Chad work their way through Apostolic succession, "doing history," the Eucharist, justification, and much more. Please let us know what kind of questions you have from what we are discussing at Facebook.com/ahistoryofchristiantheology or www.ahistoryofchristiantheology.com.

Starting this week, we will begin 2 hour long episodes on the great 2nd century theologian Irenaeus. Irenaeus is one of the first to explain what Gnosticism truly taught and how it was different from comes to be known as Orthodox Christianity. He is a wealth of information, and should be read, in his own right, for his clever thought. Please check out our blog at www.ahistoryofchristiantheology.com and tell us what you think.

We continue our conversation on Dialogue with Trypho. Please check us out at Facebook.com/ahistoryofchristiantheology. Let us know what you think about the length and if you would like it if we went to an hour.

Continuing our time in Justin, Tom, Trevor and I (Chad) discuss Justin's "hermeneutic" of reading Scripture, his early Trinitarian theology and why this matters before the Council of Nicaea. Check out our blog for more thoughts on hermeneutics at www.ahistoryofchristiantheology.com.