You're listening to the ancient tradition.

A Wonk Media production.

Music provided by Joseph McDade.

Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan.

Welcome to the ancient tradition.

I'm your host, Jack Logan.

It's great to be here with you today.

If you're joining us for the first time, we're thrilled to have you here.

You're in for the theological ride of a lifetime.

I have to give you a friendly heads up, though, because you're going to get a lot out of

today's episode kind of as a standalone, but know that you are tuning into a discussion

that's been unfolding for over a year and a half now.

The podcast is designed with a progressive structure in mind, kind of like a college course,

where each episode or each class builds on the concepts and discussions of the previous classes.

To truly grasp the depth of the ancient theological ideas that we're exploring,

I highly recommend that at some point you listen to the podcast sequentially.

This approach will allow you to follow the evolution of our discussions

and see how each episode

contributes to a deeper understanding of the theological tenets taught by the ancients.

And by doing this, you're going to get a richer and a more nuanced perspective of the

material that we cover. For example, today we're going to explore some pretty

important theological ideas. Many of them, if you're going to explore some pretty important theological ideas.

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