Theology on Ice: A Reformed Catholic Podcast

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Few books have shaped Christian worship in the English-speaking world more profoundly than the Book of Common Prayer, so today I am here to discuss how the Anglican Book of Common Prayer both shapes, informs, and teaches us theology. As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

In Article 3, the Jerusalem Declaration states that orthodox Anglicans uphold: “the four Ecumenical Councils and the three historic Creeds.” For many modern Christians, that statement raises an important question: What exactly were the first four ecumenical councils? Why were they called? What controversies were they addressing? And what conclusions did they reach that Anglicans today still affirm? In this episode we’ll explore the four councils recognized across most of the historic Christian world: 1) The First Council of Nicaea, 2) The First Council of Constantinople, 3) The Council of Ephesus, 4) The Council of Chalcedon. As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

Few doctrines in Christian theology have provoked as much discussion—and sometimes controversy as predestination. In this episode, we’ll explore 1) what the Thirty-Nine Articles actually say about predestination, 2) how early Anglicans understood that teaching, and 3) why modern Anglicans interpret the doctrine in different ways. As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

How do Anglicans do theology? Well, one of the defining characteristics of Anglicanism is this very issue. We rely on three main sources: Scripture, Tradition, and Reason. This episode discusses all this and more! As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

Here’s a strange experience many people have the first time they encounter Anglicanism. You visit one Anglican church, and it feels almost indistinguishable from an Evangelical Protestant service. There’s preaching, hymns, simple liturgy, and not much ceremony. Then you visit another Anglican parish. Suddenly there are priests in vestments, incense rising during the Eucharist, candles burning on the altar, weekly communion, maybe even Marian feasts on the church calendar. And you find yourself asking a very reasonable question: "How can both of these churches belong to the same tradition?" I discuss all this in this episode. As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

In a world so busy and distracting and in great need of Jesus, I strongly believe that the Church is in desperate need of holy men and women who dedicate their lives to prayer and fasting on behalf of the Church and the World. In this episode, I invite you to dream with me about what it might look like if the Anglican communion had a movement of monastic revival. As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

Have you ever wondered, if Jesus is the New Messianic King, son of David, then who is the new Queen? Believe it or not, both the Bible and the early church have a lot to say on the matter. In this episode, the final part of my five part mini-series on an Anglican Mariology, we discuss this very topic. As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

This episode is Part IV of a five part mini-series on an Anglican Mariology and today's episode will help to introduce us to the Doctrine of Mary’s Bodily Assumption. You may know that as Christians, we believe that after His resurrection, Jesus ascended into heaven, but did you know that ever since the earliest centuries of the Church, Christians have also believed that the body of the Blessed Virgin Mary was taken up into heaven after her death? There are some nuances in the traditions, but this is largely called the Bodily Assumption in the West, and the Dormition in the East. This episode discusses this Marian dogma and offers an Anglican way to view it. As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

This episode is Part III of a five-part mini-series on an Anglican Mariology. It is my hope that this episode will help to introduce us to the doctrine that states that Mary is the Mother of God, distinctly different from saying Mary is the Mother of Christ, and to deny this doctrine may just be heresy! As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

This episode will introduce us to the Doctrine of the Immaculate Conception and demonstrate how this view is not just Roman Catholic, but Reformed Catholic, also! As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

Are you uncomfortable saying that the Virgin Mary remained a virgin her whole life? That she was conceived without sin? That she is the Mother not only of Christ, but of God? That she was assumed bodily into heaven where she is now Queen? This episode begins a new five part mini-series on an Anglican Mariology and today’s episode asks the question, “Was Mary a Perpetual Virgin?" As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

What does baptism actually do? Does it merely symbolize something that has already happened internally? Is it simply a public profession of faith? Is it a covenant marker? Does God actually do something in baptism? In this week’s episode, I attempt to answer this question by presenting an Anglican theology on baptism. As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

Have you ever wondered, “who gets to decide what Christianity is?” Maybe you are looking around at all these Bible-believing Christians who can’t agree on anything and questioning what might be missing? If that is you, then this episode is for you. In it, I will discuss these exact issues and offer an alternative called “The Anglican Way.” As always, please, if you have any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes, leave them in the comments below. Also, feel free to subscribe to this channel so that you will be notified anytime a new episode is released. Thank you so much for listening! God bless!

In this episode of "Theology on Ice: A Reformed Catholic Podcast," I briefly discuss some of my thoughts on, as well as the biblical basis for, the Church's practice of excommunication. As always, please feel free to leave any questions, thoughts, or ideas for future episodes in the comments below. Also, consider subscribing so that you can receive updates whenever a new episode is released. God bless!

Welcome back to "Theology on Ice: A Reformed Catholic Podcast." In this episode, we discuss the liturgical season of Lent and how best to prepare for and observe it. Please, as always, feel free to leave any questions or thoughts, as well as topic ideas for future episodes, in the comments below! God bless!

In this episode of "Theology on Ice: A Reformed Catholic Podcast," I seek to provide a faithful exposition of Article XXII (22) of the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion. This Article addresses a wide range of Roman Catholic theology, so I want to help us Reformed Catholics understand how we should view these doctrines in light of the English Reformation. Please, as always, feel free to share and thoughts or ideas for a future episode in the comments bellow! Thank you for watching and blessings to you all!

In this episode, I seek to dive into the Scriptures regarding the theological concept that Christ ordained St Peter the Apostle to be the first Pope of His Universal Church. I then assess this development in Church History and the dogmatic Roman Catholic statements about the Papacy as they exist today. Finally, I conclude by looking at how all this relates to a Reformed Catholic Tradition and what we are to do with the Bishop of Rome, as well as the Archbishop of Canterbury, today. Please feel free to leave any questions you have in the comments bellow, or any theological topics you would like to see discussed in the future! God bless! References: Holy Scripture: Isa. 22:15-24; St Matt. 16:13-19; St Jn 21:15-19; Acts 1:12-26; Gal 2:1-10; 1 Tim 4:12-16; Heb. 13:7. Names & Dates: St Ignatius of Antioch (unknown-108 A.D.); Quote from St Ignatius of Antioch’s Letter to the Smyrnaeans (written later in his life); St Irenaeus of Lyola (130-202 A.D.); Quote from St Irenaeus of Lyola’s book, Against Heresies, Book III, Ch. 3, Section 2 (written 189A.D.); Pope Boniface VIII (lived: 1230-1303) (pontificate: 1294-1303); Quote from Pope Boniface VIII’s Papal bull, Unam Sanctam (1302); Quote from Requerimiento (1510); Quotes from the First Vatican Council, Chs. 2, 3, & 4; Session 4, Ch. 2 (1869-1870); Catechism of the Catholic Church, papal references CCC 880-892.; Second Lateran Council (1139); The “Babylonian Exile of the Church” refers to the move of the Papacy to Avignon, France (1309-1377); Calvin, Calvin’s Institutes (1536); Luther, On the Jews and Their Lies (1543); Quote from Cranmer’s last speech at St. Mary’s Church in Oxford (1556); Quote from Cranmer’s A Confutation of Unwritten Verities (1547); To Be A Christian: An Anglican Catechism (2020); Quote from Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, Article XXXVII

In this episode, I recap the past year, explain new developments in my spiritual journey, and look to the future with you. Please feel free to comment any question you may have or theological topics you would like to see discussed in the future. -- "Article 17: Of Predestination and Election. Predestination to Life is the everlasting purpose of God, whereby (before the foundations of the world were laid) he hath constantly decreed by his counsel secret to us, to deliver from curse and damnation those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of mankind, and to bring them by Christ to everlasting salvation, as vessels made to honour. Wherefore, they which be endued with so excellent a benefit of God, be called according to God's purpose by his Spirit working in due season: they through Grace obey the calling: they be justified freely: they be made sons of God by adoption: they be made like the image of his only-begotten Son Jesus Christ: they walk religiously in good works, and at length, by God's mercy, they attain to everlasting felicity. As the godly consideration of Predestination, and our Election in Christ, is full of sweet, pleasant, and unspeakable comfort to godly persons, and such as feel in themselves the working of the Spirit of Christ, mortifying the works of the flesh, and their earthly members, and drawing up their mind to high and heavenly things, as well because it doth greatly establish and confirm their faith of eternal Salvation to be enjoyed through Christ as because it doth fervently kindle their love towards God: So, for curious and carnal persons, lacking the Spirit of Christ, to have continually before their eyes the sentence of God's Predestination, is a most dangerous downfall, whereby the Devil doth thrust them either into desperation, or into wretchlessness of most unclean living, no less perilous than desperation. Furthermore, we must receive God's promises in such wise, as they be generally set forth to us in Holy Scripture: and, in our doings, that Will of God is to be followed, which we have expressly declared unto us in the Word of God." - Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion

In this episode, I want to discuss one of the Sacraments of the Church recognized by the ACNA as noted in "To Be A Christian: An Anglican Catechism" (2020), questions 124, 125, 149, 150, and 151. This Sacrament goes by many names (Confession, Penance, Absolution), and I hope to give a helpful Anglican introduction to it here. Please feel free to comment any questions you may have or theological topics you would like to see discussed in the future.