Welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast. You might have noticed that this is showing up on your phone or your computer or whatever you listen to the show on, on a Wednesday.

And that's not typical necessarily on the Thinking Fellows. We don't do our regular shows on Wednesdays.

This is what I like to call the special drop day. So anytime we have an episode that is of particular

importance that doesn't apply to whatever series we're doing, or it's shorter, which is what today

is going to be. So if it's not a full-length episode, if we don't reach that 45-minute mark that we

usually shoot for, it's going to go up on a Wednesday. And what we're talking about today is

that we've finally gotten to it. We've talked about this for what, eight weeks now. You

listeners have been sitting in anticipation, and we've gotten to our new series. That's right,

our series on the great thinkers of the Christian faith. And it's just me, producer Caleb,

and I'm here with Dr. Keith.

Hello.

And we're just going to talk about why we decided to transition into this particular series,

what we've already done in the past, if you're a new listener,

because it's good to take a break every once in a while and let these people who have joined us on this great journey,

this great podcast, this great podcast,

midway through or in our now, what is our second year, and catch them up, let them know

what they can look forward to going back and listening to and what they can, what everybody

can now expect going forward. So Dr. Keith, we decided to do this after two other series. We started with the

Lochi topics. We basically outlined Philip Melanchthon's Lochi Communas from the 1521, correct?

Yep. And we did our best to go coincide the topics that we discussed with the order in which

Melanchthon first discussed them in the

lochia of 1521. I would say we didn't hit that 100%. We added some topics that he didn't

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