Hey, friends, welcome back to another episode of Theology. Rob. My guest today is Dr. Sean Willite,

who is an associate professor of New Testament at California Baptist University. He holds two

PhDs, one from Durham University in the UK, where he did his work on Cyril of Alexandria

and scripture like to Jesus. And he also has a PhD from Southern Seminary where

he wrote his dissertation on the two ways tradition and the Didicate. This episode is all about

the early church fathers and patristics and the first 400 years post-Christianity. And Sean,

he's the man. He's, this guy's done so much research on

this area so I was so excited to learn a ton from him about the early church so please

welcome to the show for Theology in the Rob.

I'm really excited about this conversation.

So I was just reading your bio.

Yeah, grateful.

Do you have two earned PhDs?

I do have two PhDs.

That's insane.

Don't do it.

I don't recommend it. But yes.

So one from Southern Severnary, then one from Durham. Which one came first? Southern came first

and did my work on the dedicate at Southern. And then ended up landing a job, gratefully,

several years ago. And the opportunity kind of gave

rise to studying with Lewis Ayers. And I, it's just, I couldn't pass that up. And so I was able

to study with Lewis at Durham for round two. But ultimately, like at the end of the day, it was meant

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