Hello and welcome to the Thinking Fellows podcast. My name is Caleb Keith, and today I am joined by my father, Sky Keith, by Adam Francisco, and by Bruce Hillman. We are, we've had some special episodes. We've had our regular episodes, but we are in our regular systematic series for today's episode.

And today we are covering the doctrine of Christ.

An important doctrine, one for the early church, which I don't know, one of you can correct me if I'm wrong here, but the one that in my mind kind of kickstarts the systematic theology like dogmatic theology the codifying

of of Christian doctrine and and starting with creeds and then into the writings of the church

fathers and Bruce knows all about that with his his academy on the church fathers in the early church

everybody everybody should sign up and

take that course it's an outstanding course link in the show notes to bruce's

course on the early church through 1517s academy there before we get into the episode today

right now you've probably heard an ad at the beginning of this

episode, but I'll hit you with another one in the middle of this episode right now, which is

that this is the June podcast fundraiser. And what is significant about the fundraiser this

year, we've done this a couple of years in a row now, is that we had a couple of donors who were moved by the fundraisers there last year are big supporters of the 1517 podcast network. And they said they wanted to help increase the impact of our fundraiser from last year. And they are matching gifts given during this fundraiser dollar for dollar. So when you give a dollar, they give a dollar additionally as well, up to $75,000 to help us reach a $150,000 goal.

If you've been a longtime listener of the Thinking Fellows, now is the perfect time to start supporting the show,

even through a one-time gift or through

monthly reoccurring donations. You can follow the link in the show notes below that says

support this podcast, or you can go to 1517.org slash donate dash podcasts, and that will take you to our page there.

Supporting the Thinking Fellows and the rest of the podcast network helps us get these shows out.

We've been doing this for a long time and we've been doing it without ads and we've grown

and expanded the reach of the podcasts.

And one of the ways that we can continue to produce these

shows and then distribute them is through donations from you that helps us advertise the shows,

cover production and hosting costs, support your favorite creators and theologians at 1517.

...