Bully Pulpit: Church Fathers

Mortification of Spin

Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals

Religion & Spirituality

4.4 • 879 Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2013

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

In this issue of Mortification of Spin: Bully Pulpit, Carl Trueman and Todd Pruitt discuss the importance of the church fathers to modern Christianity. How can men who lived thousands of years ago speak to today's issues with any relevance? Learn more about some of the important fathers of our faith from Carl and Todd... Winners of Rediscovering the Church Fathers: Who They Were and How They Shaped the Church.C. Turer - Evansville, IND. Box - Monroe, GAJ. Anderson - Jupiter, FLL. O'Neil - Linville, VAJ. Brick - Bellevue, NE Heard on Bully Pulpit: Church FathersAugustine of Hippo by Simonetta Carr Athanasius by Simonetta Carr A Public Faith: From Constantine to the Medieval World AD 312-600 by Ivor Davidson The First Thousand Years: A Global History of Christianity by Robert Wilken Rediscovering the Church Fathers: Who They Were and How They Shaped the Church by Michael Haykin Confessions by Augustine City of God by Augustine

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0:00.0	You're listening to Mortification of Spin, a podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
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0:24.6	Welcome to the mortification of Spin, Bully Pulpit.
0:30.3	This is the regular, concise podcast of the Alliance of Confessing Evangelicals.
0:35.0	I'm your host, Carl Truman, I'm Professor of Historical Theology and Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary, and I'm joined by my partner in crime,
0:38.4	as always, Todd Pruitt, pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia.
0:44.7	Good to have you with us, Todd.
0:46.2	Well, good to be here, as always, Carl.
0:49.0	Now, I just want everybody to know that they may hear a dog bark in the background every
0:53.7	once in a while.
0:54.6	It's because I'm here in Virginia, and we don't really have walls on our houses, and we keep all
0:59.3	of our appliances out on the front porch. And the dogs just kind of come and go as they please.
1:04.2	You're sure it isn't some non-cissationist Pentecostal relative you've got in the background
1:08.4	worshipping in some way? No, no, they're still just doing the laughter.
1:12.4	They haven't moved on to the barking yet.
1:14.2	Excellent.
1:14.8	Excellent.
1:15.0	Well, I'm sure they'll be sanctified in the long term.
1:17.6	Any day.
1:18.7	Topic for discussion today, a couple of weeks back, Peter Lighthart posted what became
1:24.2	quite a controversial, a short post on the First Thoughts blog,
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